Archive for the 'Planning and Funding'

Big Brother would love the Amplify tablet

March 13th, 2013 by Scott McLeod

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Posted in Learning and Teaching, Planning and Funding, Tech Tools | 11 comments

Maybe ‘What do you want your students to do?’ is the wrong question

January 22nd, 2013 by Scott McLeod

Laptops. iPads (or other tablet devices). Chromebooks. Maybe even netbooks or ultrabooks… As...
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Posted in Leadership and Vision, Learning and Teaching, Planning and Funding, Tech Integration | 12 comments

The 800-desktop millstone [SCENARIO]

December 9th, 2012 by Scott McLeod

Introducing a new feature here, here’s a school technology leadership scenario for you…...
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Posted in Leadership and Vision, Management and Operations, Planning and Funding, Scenarios | 27 comments

Tech Support Internship: Student-led support for Leyden’s Chromebook initiative [guest post]

November 5th, 2012 by jasonmarkey

Part 4 of a 5-part series on 1:1 with Chromebooks at Leyden High Schools.  This post was written...
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Posted in Guest Bloggers, Leadership and Vision, Learning and Teaching, Planning and Funding, Tech Integration | 1 comment

What Can You Expect When Moving Learning to the Web? [guest post]

October 26th, 2012 by jasonmarkey

The third post of a 5-part series on 1:1 at Leyden High Schools. This post is from Mikkel...
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Posted in Guest Bloggers, Leadership and Vision, Learning and Teaching, Planning and Funding, Tech Integration | 3 comments

The Logistics of 1:1 Chromebooks at Leyden [guest post]

September 24th, 2012 by jasonmarkey

The second post in a series about 1:1 at Leyden by Bryan Weinert, Director of Technology for...
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Posted in Guest Bloggers, Leadership and Vision, Learning and Teaching, Management and Operations, Planning and Funding, Tech Integration | 10 comments

Why 1:1? Why Chromebooks? [guest post]

September 17th, 2012 by jasonmarkey

The first post of a 4-part series on 1:1 at Leyden High Schools. Jason Markey, principal of East...
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Posted in Guest Bloggers, Leadership and Vision, Learning and Teaching, Planning and Funding, Tech Integration | 10 comments

Rethinking expenditures and policy priorities

September 10th, 2012 by Scott McLeod

The National Association of Science Teachers reports that we currently have approximately 180,000...
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Posted in Law, Policy, and Ethics, Planning and Funding, Pre-Service Preparation, Professional Development | 3 comments

Flexible classroom furniture

February 18th, 2012 by Scott McLeod

Here’s a short video highlighting what flexible classroom furniture might look like in...
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Posted in Learning and Teaching, Planning and Funding, Tech Integration, Videos | 7 comments

Iowa wants to fail 3rd graders (and other thoughts on the Governor’s Education Blueprint)

November 16th, 2011 by Scott McLeod

Over the past month I’ve been reading and thinking about the new Education Blueprint proposed...
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Posted in Assessment, Law, Policy, and Ethics, Leadership and Vision, Learning and Teaching, Online Learning, Our Changing World, Planning and Funding, Pre-Service Preparation, Professional Development, Research and Evaluation, Tech Integration, Workforce and Economy | 20 comments

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