Closing the Gap: Administrators and Ed Tech

Posted on July 2, 2008.

I attended an interesting panel on the lack of knowledge most administrators have about education technology.
A few statistics from the panel:
- More than 70% of ed tech PD programs have no courses for administration
- There are about 8 ed tech leadership courses for administrators out of 500 ed tech leadership programs
- Administrators are thought to [...]

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Technology Literacy Curriculum: Chicago Public Schools

Posted on July 2, 2008.

Wednesday AM saw me at a session on a technology literacy curriculum. It wasn’t a session I particularly needed, but it seemed the most useful of the sessions in the 8:30-9:30am time. A panel from Chicago Public Schools (CPS) explained how they developed a technology literacy curriculum with Intel Education. Their curriculum is Web-based, low-bandwidth [...]

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Classroom 2.0

Posted on July 1, 2008.

I thought this would be a networking event for the members of the Classroom 2.0 social network for educators interested in Web 2.0. Instead it was a series of questions from the audience and answers from the audience about Classroom 2.0 as as concept.
A few tips I came away with:
- Teach teachers to teach themselves [...]

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