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Stop Celebrating Low-Level Learning

Tom Murray

In the spring of 2002, I was teaching 4th grade in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. As a teacher in my second year, my classroom had a 1:1 student-to-device ratio. That’s right, in 2002, 17 years ago, we were 1:1. Murray, 2002 (HAHA!!) In 2002, these devices were new. Student engagement was planned throughout.

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Fostering Powerful Use of Technology Through Instructional Coaching

Digital Promise

While in some cases, technology is used in powerful ways to support students in developing critical thinking and collaboration skills, and to develop a sense of agency, in other situations it is used in things like drill and practice exercises, test prep, and reading online content. To learn more about our findings, read the full report.

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Use of Blogging to Address the Common Core

A Principal's Reflections

Westbrook has been tackling the Common Core in an engaging and innovative fashion. As students engage nonfiction, they learn to grapple with complex ideas and arguments and use those ideas in forming their own opinions. On the blog, students can access the informational text by replaying the interview.

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Michael Fullan, 2002, p. Youngsters under the age of 18 whose families have incomes below the US poverty threshold; approximately 16 million of America’s poor are children who are often malnourished, live in substandard housing, and have unequal access to educational opportunities. Struggling Learners. References Dove, M.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. By 2002, a new education law had replaced the program and a new presidential administration was in place.

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PROOF POINTS: Two studies find scattergrams reduce applications to elite colleges

The Hechinger Report

The company was the first to market scattergrams to schools in 2002 and says its product reaches nine million of the nation’s 15 million high school students. Only one counselor told me he had seen a case where a student was discouraged after seeing scattergrams, but he said it was an unusual experience.

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iPad or iFad?

Learning with 'e's

In 2002 I was so enthused by the idea that a school could provide one laptop for every child in its school that I launched a major research programme to study one of the first schools in the UK to achieve that goal for each of its 41 Year 6 pupils. What are your views about one iPad for every child?

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