Mar
29
COSN, Day 2: the Wal Martization of America – the Flat World vs. Education and Jobs
March 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Brian Bridges
Thursday began by spotlighting Pennylvania’s initiatives to utilize technology in support of professional development and classroom integration.
This session got off to a bad start when the governor of Pennsylvania, via a recorded speech, completely got wrong the effect of the flat world. He told a story of American companies [...]
Mar
28
CoSN, Day 1: Data-Driven Leadership
March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Brian Bridges
My session two choice was Tood Bloom’s and Betty Schweizer’s, “The Journey Toward Data-Driven Leadership.” Their project, TIE, is a consortium of 38 Minnesota school districts with the purpose of providing SIS, finance, payroll, and data to their member districts. They purchased Cognos for their data warehouse client. He discussed [...]
Mar
28
CoSN, Day 1: Online Professional Development
March 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Brian Bridges
It’s day one of CoSN’s annual conference in San Francisco (CoSN is the Consortium of School Networking). During Session One, I was fascinated by David Myers’ description of Michigan’s online learning portal for professional development and by their Education Department’s commitment to extending online learning’s reach. Apparently, they’ve proposed to require all teachers [...]
Mar
27
Citizendium = Wikipedia + Verified Authors
March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Brian Bridges
Released on March 27, 2007 is Citizendium, created by the founder of Wikipedia but with one important change. Apparently, all authors must use their real names in a quest to build content that is more accountable. The site will utilize “expert” editors and Constables, who are tasked with addressing those with [...]
Mar
27
Technology Research: Choosing the Appropriate Tools to Evaluate Technology Effectiveness
March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Brian Bridges
As part of an AB 430 cohort we were teaching, we directed our class to read an article from the Journal of Computing in Teacher Education entitled, “Issues in the Observation and Evaluation of Technology Integration in K-12 Classrooms.”
Let me start by saying that the article was rather long and drawn out, as [...]
Mar
22
Data Analysis 101: Connecting STAR Data to the Classroom using the Data Extractor
March 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment
by Brian Bridges
I first discovered the Data Extractor last November when I was reviewing DataDrivenClassroom for the California Learning Resource Network (CLRN). One of CTAP’s goals is to provide AB 430, Module 3 training to school administrators. As part of our training, we review relevant research regarding data driven decision making and we practice analyzing [...]
Mar
11
Jeff Han does it again. At last year’s TED conference, Jeff, who was then working at MIT, demonstrated the interface of the future, a multitouch screen that eliminates the need for a mouse or a keyboard. you can see that video on iTunes under TEDtalks.
While Jeff was scheduled to present at TED 2007, this video [...]
