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Mobile Decisions

Monday, February 19, 2007

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About a month ago, I wrote about introducing the idea of mobile alerts into my classroom. Today, Connee left a comment on that post, along with some good ideas for using the two services I mentioned, which reminded me to post an update. After that post, I set up a survey on the class website [...]

Slowly Moving Mobile

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

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Yesterday I found myself needing to get a message to my AP 12 students. I had the email addresses of most of them and the cell numbers of a few, but I found myself wishing for their cell numbers more than their email addresses. The reason? I know that email is soo last century … [...]

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In the Set of All Factors, Money Wins
This chart pretty clearly illustrates the correlation between student performance and socio-economic status: I have no interest in defending ineffective teachers, but we also have to talk honestly about what schools can and can’t do to help students. I don’t doubt that the effectiveness of a teacher is the single largest factor in determining a [...]
The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
It’s Popular because It’s Easy
Marion Brady presents two theories of learning and suggests that the one currently driving reform is based on the notion that learning is all about transferring information from books and teachers into the empty brains of students. No research says how much of what’s recalled at test time remains permanently in memory, nor to what [...]