Brian @ CLRN

Julie Evens came to the CTAP Coordinating Council to share about Project Tomorrow‘s Speak Up day, an annual national survey. Noticing a digital disconnect between teachers and students, they created an annual survey to collect student data which could facilitate discussions. Core questions include learning and Teaching with Technology, Web 2.0 in Education, 21st Century [...]

by Brian Bridges (Technology Funding Challenges, Part 2) Money has stopped falling from the sky. Worse, the once wet-with-funds technology grounds are quickly becoming dust barren. Torrents of technology funding consisting of Federal Enhancing Education Through Technology grants, the Education Technology K-12 Voucher Program, and even general funds are becoming scarce. The President’s proposed budget [...]

During the CTAP Coordinating Council meeting held the day before CUE, Dennis Fox presented a session on improving instruction through data. These are my notes from that session. It doesn’t matter what he, CTAP, or the CDE does if it doesn’t result in teachers changing what they do in the classroom. He asked, “How do [...]

by Brian Bridges In the world of relationship building, phone calls trump email as a means to establish or foster relations. However, personal visits trump both of them. This has been true both during my work with CTAP and at CLRN. During my years with CTAP, one of my chores was to work with 68 [...]

by Brian Bridges Few will argue of CUE’s importance or that CUE’s founders and leaders have shaped California’s educational technology landscape. In CLRN’s article this month, you read that early CUE members Bobby Goodson (former CUE President) and Ann Lathrop (CUE Platinum Award winner) are responsible for creating the software clearinghouse and its present day [...]

Marc’s theme: Engage me or enrage me. Educating today’s digital native. Technology changes; Tools switch. TV becomes You Tube; email becomes IM; Yahoo search becomes Google search; Hard drives become flash memory. Our students are expecting things to change; they were “born to the idea of change.” The nature of education is changing. Tomorrow’s problems [...]

by Brian Bridges How Acceptable is Your Acceptable Use Policy? How does your technology plan address copyright, fair use, and Internet safety, particularly in these times when a variety of Web 2.0 tools are empowering students and teachers? How will your school’s culture be affected by your new policies? Unnoticed by most educators last fall, [...]