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How Technology is Changing Teaching and Learning at North Shore
On Thursday morning, Tom Doar, our Head of School, wandered into the library where I was getting ready to help work with our fifth graders on their iMovie project which I wrote about last week. He told me:
… ContinueOn Tuesday evening, at a meeting of the strategic plan committee chairs, Pam Whalley, our Lower School Head stated that the accessibility to technology has changed the way that teaching and learning are done in the classroom, especially in the last three years.
Teachers n
Posted on May 12, 2007 at 8:06am —
Watching Ideas Take Root
As someone whose mission is to empower others so that they feel comfortable integrating technology on their own, it is gratifying when
teachers and students begin to think of ways that they can utilize the
tools and then do so on their own.
Today, I had one of those experiences. Kevin Randolph (krandolph@nscds.org), on
… ContinuePosted on April 16, 2007 at 6:56pm —
Draft - Vision for North Shore's Learning Environment
<<cross posted at Multi-faceted Refractions>>
Vision
In the year 2014, we envision North Shore possessing a technology rich environment in which students, faculty, staff, and parents have
access to the resources and tools so that they can communicate,
collaborate, create, and contribute to society. The school community
will investigate real life problems with experts and passionate
amateurs around the work to propose and crea
Posted on April 16, 2007 at 3:20pm —
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I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this other ning network is no exception. My name is Marco Morales; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:
Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.
Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.
Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!
Thanks,
Marco Morales
marcotuts@gmail.com