Generation YES Blog » AALF http://blog.genyes.org Thoughts About Empowering Students with Technology Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:04:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 2006-2007 sylvia@genyes.org (Generation YES Blog) sylvia@genyes.org (Generation YES Blog) 1440 http://genyes.com/media/template/images/logo.gif Generation YES Blog http://blog.genyes.org 144 144 Thoughts About Empowering Students with Technology Generation YES Blog Generation YES Blog sylvia@genyes.org no no Students as Agents of Change http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2009/10/28/aalf-articles-students-as-agents-of-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aalf-articles-students-as-agents-of-change http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2009/10/28/aalf-articles-students-as-agents-of-change/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:07:52 +0000 Sylvia Martinez http://blog.genyes.com/?p=1590 AALF Articles – Students as Agents of Change.

The Anywhere Anytime Learning Foundation (AALF) is a great resource for articles, research and resources about schools going 1:1. This month’s newsletter featured a short article by me about students as agents of change in laptop programs.

Most laptop programs start with a philosophy of putting power into student hands – but amid all the excitement of selecting hardware and planning the logistics, this can get lost.

Keep student empowerment front and center by focusing on Students as Agents of Change.

Sylvia

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]]> http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2009/10/28/aalf-articles-students-as-agents-of-change/feed/ 0 Student Voice in Ontario, Canada http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2009/09/09/student-voice-in-ontario-canada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=student-voice-in-ontario-canada http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2009/09/09/student-voice-in-ontario-canada/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:31:36 +0000 Sylvia Martinez http://blog.genyes.com/?p=1587 In Ontario, Canada, every school board is required to include representatives from the local Student Senate, which is composed of student trustees from each high school in the board. The student trustees represent students and ensure that students’ ideas and opinions are heard at the school board level. These student representatives have joined together to form the Student Trustee Organization which is, according to their website, “the largest student stakeholder in education and the voice for the student vision” and they act as consultants at the provincial Ministry of Education level. This is probably one of the most ambitious efforts in the world to listen to and heed “student voice” in the development of education policy, and over the years, they have impacted some major school reform efforts.

Read the whole blog post from Susan Einhorn, Anywhere, Anytime Learning Foundation (AALF) Executive Director, Student Voice, Democracy and 1-to-1.

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