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- Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?
- Has math instruction actually changed in the last 40 years?It depends....In my kids' school district, math teaching is geared toward taking the district assessments and focuses specifically on learning what will be on the next assessment. Assessments are given quarterly. While this school district didn't exist 40 years...
- Tags: math instruction, calculator
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
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- An unusual day, part 2 (or "My lease is up! Now what?")
- Smart Boards...Are Smart Boards such a great idea? Those projectors are all good and nice but there are other ways to achieve the same thing...The Interactive whiteboard is a compelling technology for teachers, it closely mimics what they're already used to. But there are weaknesses. Firstly using a whiteboard is...
- Tags: Projectors, Tablets, Notebooks, projector, unusual day
- Discussion threads 2009-11-06
- ThoughtManager for Education 2.78 (Mobile)
- ThoughtManager for Education is powerful outliner tool and educational database that allows teachers, professors, & students to create and organize the many ideas, lessons, tasks, problems, solutions, and assessment data found in education. Use ThoughtManager to: Manage classroom tasks, homework records, behavior logs, parent phone calls, etc. Create and organize...
- Tags: Education, Mobile, Outline, Template Feature, Time Management, Quality, Collaboration, Groupware, Productivity, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2009-07-08
- Summer reading...the data don't lie
- We collect a lot of data on our students. State standardized tests, DIBELS, and RTI feedback from Lexia and Symphony software in particular all provide us with the opportunity to modify instruction based on specific student needs. That's a good thing. Obviously, the data collection process...
- Tags: Kid, Transportation, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-04-19
- ARM shows possible iPhone-bound multicore mobile processor
- ARM is demonstrating the first working example of a multicore processor that may dramatically speed up smartphones while Apple is searching for iPhone engineers that can write multithreaded code, perhaps to take advantage of ARM's breakthrough, AppleInsider reports. The chip designer along with ST-Ericsson is reportedly running...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, ARM, Mobile, Multi-core, Chip, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Rearview madness and Wintel customer spin
- Rearview madness and Wintel customer spinHyperthreading?Murph, could you explain the differences between real threading, the long abandoned hyperthreading used before multi-cores on intel chips and those new coolthreads?And maybe tell us why they are so desirable that you see intel go that way as well?Hyperthreading was essentially a poor-mans multicore...
- Tags: Processors, Nicolas Carr, Sun Microsystems Inc., Apple Inc., coolthread, HyperThreading, multi-core, Wintel
- Discussion threads 2009-02-11
- Obama and Ed Tech
- Obama and Ed TechNice one Chris...Handing out an Acer Aspire One connected to Wi-Fi broadband to every child is not going to solve education problems. What about inept teachers? What about poorly designed curriculums? The problem with you Chris is that you think your current fad is the ubiqutious solution...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, INTERNET, obama, Obama, computer
- Discussion threads 2009-01-19
- Obama and Ed Tech
- Today, we inaugurate the first president to ever own a BlackBerry, to ever have a Twitter account, and to ever use the Internet to build and win a grassroots campaign. Obviously, hopes are high among those of us in Ed Tech for a very different sort of presidency when...
- Tags: Education, School, Computer, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- What do we do with those classroom computers?
- BusinessWeek ran a great article recently focusing on one school in San Francisco that was rethinking exactly what computers in schools meant. As the article quite aptly pointed out, Schools are enthusiastic about the technology's promise, but short of the money and trained faculty to...
- Tags: Computer, Kid, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-21
- HP, Novell partner on new Linux PC that ships Dec 15
- HP announced this week it is preloading Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop on its Compaq dc5850 Business Desktop PC. The PC, which offers high-end graphics and dual monitor support, debuted in April. It has an AMD processor and an ATI Radeon 3100 card and will be available...
- Tags: Novell Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., PC, Linux PC, Digital Equipment Corp., Linux, Desktops, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Chinese...How's that for a 21st Century Skill?
- Chinese...How's that for a 21st Century Skill?Not a needed skillMany Chinese people are learning English from an early age.Imagine a situation in which a person with some Chinese in school is in a meeting with a Chinese person who has spent decades working on fluency in English. How likely...
- Tags: Chinese People
- Discussion threads 2008-12-05
- Intel maintains commitment to education
- Despite dismal economic times, Intel, creator of the Classmate PC, an associated software stack, and a pedagogical model for its use in schools, has reaffirmed its commitment to education. Today, the company announced that it had achieved its goal of 1 million volunteer hours from its employees. According...
- Tags: Education, Intel Corp., Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-12-05
- Clearing up the 32/64-bit memory limit confusion
- Clearing up the 32/64-bit memory limit confusionYou might want to re-read your article.... :PGood points though. Next upgrade i make will be to vista 64bit. I now have the hardware... just need the will.It also turns outthat 64-bit sees a speed boost on Intel chips because of the...
- Tags: Network technology, Games, Processors, Operating systems, IBM PowerPC, 64-bit, PAE, memory limit confusion, hardware, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-12-04
- The case for Scala
- Programming languages are like screwdrivers for developers. One size does not fit all, so good programmers keep several in their tool belt. The problem is, new languages are coming out all the time and you've only got so much room on your belt and in your schedule to learn them....
- Tags: Function, Method, Functional Programming, Language, Scala, Seq, List, Scala System, HQ9+, env:Env, David J. Biesack, Programming Languages, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Ed Tech in a recession
- At the beginning of this week, I wrote about why the OLPC makes less sense than ever during a recession. Little green netbooks, though, aren't the only things that will get hit as the global economy tanks even further. Next year, our district is looking at a best...
- Tags: Recession, Hardware, Technology, Teacher, Productivity, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Is George Ou right?
- Former ZDNet blogger, George Ou, is always good for a discussion of educational technology. As he wrote on my post yesterday ("Enough already with the Luddite schools"), I'm no luddite and I remember carrying an electric typewriter to a High School English class for a...
- Tags: Education, Software, Social Media, Teacher, Computer, George Ou, Classmate PC, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Any chance our student data could be consistent?
- Here in the States, most of us are now teaching to some sort of standardized test. The original goal of these tests was to provide data and feedback to increase student achievement nationwide. Unfortunately, now, the tests tend to define our curricula and, more often than not, punish...
- Tags: Data, Productivity, Performance Management, Data Mining, Databases, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Why yes, I can do longitudinal data analysis
- Because I'm not really all that busy sarcasm drips here, it's fallen to me to figure out what is happening to our MCAS scores. For those of you outside the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the MCAS is our battery of standardized tests in English, Math, science, history (the list goes...
- Tags: Data Analysis, School, Clinical Trial, Healthcare, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Can you trust kids with a Kindle?
- As more and more reports point to Amazon's attempts to enter the $5.5 billion US market for textbooks with their Kindle e-reader, one has to ask, can you trust kids with these things? I know Amazon's efforts are really focused on college students, but I'm looking at...
- Tags: Text, Textbook, Kindle, Channel Management, Web Browsers, Marketing, Internet, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-27
- $500 + Edubuntu = "a complete waste of money"?
- I made a comment in an earlier post about Intel's latest Classmates that a pricepoint of $500 on a tablet-based Classmate loaded with Edubuntu would be incredibly attractive. One reader in particular, however, called this combination a "complete waste of money." Others pointed to the need...
- Tags: Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-08-21
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