Can you hear me now? The digital divide is alive and well. It's just more complicated. Teachers are under attack and the digital divide is even worse than before.I have had lively discussions with educators , friends of mine , who tell me that I am dedicating time to a useless cause. They say the digital divide is solved , and talk about the new technologies as if everyone has access, knowledge, and information. They tell me that the reason funding is short is because there has been a … [Read more...]
From Russia with Glass!! Google Glass that is..
How Could the Children Tell the Story of the School? We had some interaction with the children on our various visits to the school, and on one day we shared as team, the use of Google Glass with the teachers , the students ,and the faculty. I brought the GG , we all sat and figured it out and Alexandra solved the access to the Internet problem by buying time on a hot spot connection that she ws able to use to initiative and connect to the Internet. What did we use and how … [Read more...]
Google Glass, What’s the Big Idea? Transparency and All that Jazz!! I see Clear Uses in Education
What is it? What can it do? Who can use it? Why would you want it? When can you get it? How much will it be? I don't know all of the answers but I have explored to find some of them. This is one of two articles I will write. One General Use http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Tsrg_EQMw&list=TLqTCMxOdQCtw One Educational Use I have been to CERN. Since it was a couple of years ago, I used this teacher's journey to "see" what the LHC is like … [Read more...]
Changing the Learning Landscape..University, Community College and High School Teachers Tackle Computer Science
Report by Vic Sutton Bonnie Sutton UMBC Google CS4HS Teacher Development Workshop 2013 "I have been going to computer science conferences for 28 years and this is the best one I have ever been to." - Arlington County Tech Ed Supervisor August 4-7, 2013 Changing the Learning Landscape, the Computer Science for the High School Initiative CS4HS CSTA has sponsored an initiative to transform education. *The Computer Science Teachers … [Read more...]
E-rate. Access, and Advocacy for Schools
Written by Bonnie Bracey Sutton with concepts from an NCTET sharing of information. Articles and resources as cited. Download View slide show (1) Download as zip THEN I was in the room when the idea of E-rate was conceived. Someone had shown me the classroom of thefuture, which is not yet in vogue, from the University of Illinois, NCSA and I became depressed my classroom and I told them that for schools of need, nothing would happen without some way of subsidy ( … [Read more...]
