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Teacher effectiveness and the blame game
If having great teachers in the classroom is so important, why then is $2.4 billion in federal funding for teacher preparation, the third-largest federal K-12 program in the country, on the chopping block? The present administration has proposed a 9 … Continue reading
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Alexa – read my book
I am more and more impressed by the capabilities of Amazon’s Alexa. Like most owners, I am willing to say that most of those capabilities go unused. I do the same things over and over. Like play music. I fail … Continue reading
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Something for the secondary educators
I have a sense, that for one reason or another, educators who work at the secondary level make less use of technology in their teaching. I reach this conclusion from the active participation of teacher conversations I observe online. What … Continue reading
Public highlighting and annotation
My personal take on tools for adding various types of annotations and prompts to existing online resources has emphasized the educational potential for teachers and students. I see these tools as ways to convert information resources (web pages, online video) … Continue reading
Share Keynote Slideshows
Apple Keynote (computer or tablet) has been upgraded to allow a slide deck to be shareable. This requires that the file is saved in iCloud. The controls (available under the share menubar option) allows the file to be shared in … Continue reading
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More on Mastodon
I have written several posts on the opportunities in the use of the microblogging platform Mastodon. I see Mastodon as more than a Twitter clone. A recent post from Seth Kenton provides an extensive review and description of Mastodon.
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