Updated: 2010-03-19 13:40:00
Thanks, Layne, for showing the banner your chem student made of the five generic test questions. It's a great prompt for your students as they learn the vocabulary of chemistry. Kudos, Student! Terman and Merrill would be pleased that you know this foundamental of testing. They used these questions as they built the Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale as published in 1936. No one has yet come up with additional generics to add to these five. I, too, hope it helps you learn more and more rapidly.I wonder if others want one of these banners for their classrooms? Let Layne know. He can figure it out with you.Five generic questions banner
Updated: 2010-03-16 07:16:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Tablet PC Education Blog Using Tablet PCs , UMPCs , and Netbooks to advance individual learning Tuesday , March 16, 2010 Race between Education and Technology Goldin and Katz 2010 offer an analysis of how education and technology have changed the position of the United States among global competitors . The rate of development of skilled workers lags behind the rate of technology development . More specifically , they contend that economic growth requires educated workers and the US lags behind education levels of many other countries that prepare appropriate skilled workers . The authors offer data to illustrate how this lag jeaprodizes the working and wealth-building and therefore likelihood of continuing to live as we choose of US citizens in the near and more remote future . The Race Between Education and Technology contains many tables , a few equations and a powerfully told story about how and why the United States became the world's richest nation--namely , thanks to its schools . Beginning in the 1970s , however , the education system failed to keep pace , resulting , Ms . Goldin and Mr . Katz contend , in a sharply unequal nation . It is
Updated: 2010-03-15 21:27:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Tablet PC Education Blog Using Tablet PCs , UMPCs , and Netbooks to advance individual learning Monday , March 15, 2010 Four-Day School Week to Continue in Chino Valley AZ The Board of Education of the Chino Valley school district in Arizona approved Superintendent Duane Noggle's plan to continue the three-year commitment to the four-day school week . The calendar still provides for two weeks off in December for Christmas and New Year's , and one week for a spring break March 14-18, 2011. It also provides for 144 instructional days and 148 days for . teachers The Board's decision came after their initiative for a 73 tax over ride failed in a special election last week . Juan Martinez , Chino Valley High School student body president , said , The students have grown accustomed to the four-day school week . One hundred schools in Arizona operate on a four-day school week . Hermann , J . Chino Valley schools to start Aug . 16 for 2010-11 school year The Daily Courier Posted March 12, 2010, 10:25:00 PM . Retrieved March 15, 2010, 12:30 PM . Posted by The Tablet PC In Education Blog at 2:27 PM Labels : Choosing Schools Factoid 0 comments : Post a
Updated: 2010-03-09 07:09:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Tablet PC Education Blog Using Tablet PCs , UMPCs , and Netbooks to advance individual learning Tuesday , March 09, 2010 2B to Implement Five Design Principles for Smarter Ed Data Systems In the past decade , school districts and states have spent more than a billion dollars to build and implement data systems about student learning . They will probably spend another billion in the next five years . According to Education Sector Managing Director Bill Tucker , The rhetoric around educational data is compelling : With better data , policymakers can identify effective schools and educators , expose problems , make better decisions about the allocation of resources , and build political will for reform . At the classroom level , better data will inform instruction enabling teachers to better understand what approaches work for specific students and lead to better teaching and improved learning . Tucker lists five design principles for improving data use : 1. From institutional to learner centered . data 2. Information flows across institutions . 3. Usefulness and usability driven adoption . 4. Common , open systems . 5. Get the right data . Data
Updated: 2010-03-08 17:38:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar The Tablet PC Education Blog Using Tablet PCs , UMPCs , and Netbooks to advance individual learning Monday , March 08, 2010 Kahn Academy Math Program Receives Five Learning Efficiency Stars Salman Kahn and his Kahn Academy receives Five Learning Efficiency Stars for using a Tablet PC to instruct millions on YouTube about how to solve math and science problems . He sets an amazing pace for teachers everywhere . He creates each lesson , instructs , and broadcasts from a closet in his bedroom in Silicon Valley . About 40,000 people daily learn from among 1,200 free lessons posted on his electronic blackboard . Besides math , he offers lessons in science and its applications . Kahn earns the Learning Efficiency Rating of Five Stars for demonstrating online how teachers individually can offer on-demand learning beyond traditional classrooms . I especially like his disembodied voice directing attention to the multicolored visual stimuli he draws on the screen . He uses the tried-and-true educational method of direct instruction . He reminds me of my math teachers , Mr . Briggs at Burlingame High School , and Mr . Lothar at Thomas Downey . Pleasant , direct
Updated: 2010-03-02 23:13:00
I want to thank each of you for checking back for updates about Tablet PC Education. The extended delay, I think, is over. During that time, I've outlined more steps, lists, charts, tables, and figures for software developers to automate aLEAP. And, learned how teachers are using aLEAP in classrooms. These things leave a great sense of progress. Look for posts. I expect to return to posting more frequently than during this past month. Best wishes as you continue expanding your uses of Tablet and other mobile PCs with Ink in education. Looking forward to your comments. Bob
