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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

When I embarked on my teaching journey back in 2003, the landscape of the classroom was quite different from what we see today. As I ponder these changes, I find it both fascinating and essential to articulate the characteristics that now define a modern classroom.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

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Justin Reich: When I was a high school history teacher, I was relatively early in the United States to have a classroom that was one-to-one with wireless laptops with the internet. We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now.

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What Are the Best Books about the History of Education Technology?

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Larry Cuban, Teachers and Machines: The Classroom Use of Technology Since 1920 (1986). Bob Johnstone, Never Mind the Laptops: Kids, Computers, and the Transformation of Learning (2003). Brian Dear, The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture (2017).

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With the Help of Google and SF Muni, A Bus Sets Off to Serve City's High School Dropouts

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The organization made its mark in 2003 when they created the nation’s first county jail charter school. Think of it like a portable classroom on wheels—wi-fi, bus-driver and all. The idea for a mobile classroom started in 2015, as Good and his team become increasingly concerned about the conditions their students were learning in.

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How to Transform Teaching with Tablets – From Tom Daccord & Justin Reich

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Getting computing devices into schools is relatively easy; changing classroom practice with technology is really, really hard. With every generation of computing technology, a small group of educators has been able to use new tools in transformative ways, but on the whole, classroom practices have proven stubbornly resistant to change.

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Can You Be a ‘Good Teacher’ Inside a Failing School?

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Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu Despite a relatively new building, constructed in 2003 as part of a former superintendent’s turnaround project, Fisher has suffered from consistent low performance—falling far below state standards on exams and adjusted growth targets designed specifically for the school. “My Fisher Magnet Upper Academy.

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A Commitment to Confronting Our Bias and Privileges

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“We educators do the work not just in the classroom, but also with our feet and voices. Avenue Q parodied this concept with the song “Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist” back in 2003. We move in unison with our folks on the street.”. Jose Vilson. On July 10, New York teacher and. Guideline #1: Recognize the implicit biases in our own work.