Tag Archives: technology

Judges Announced for $200,000 Global Classroom Makeover Video Contest

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

I’m going to be one of the judges for the $200,000 Global Classroom Makeover Video Contest, sponsored by eInstruction. We’ll be looking at music videos made by students and teachers demonstrating how they use (or envision using) technology to enhance … Continue reading →

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Report: School Principals and Social Networking

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

via press release: A new research report was issued today that summarizes the results of an extended look at school principals’ use of social networking. The underlying research for the report, “School Principals and Social Networking in Education: Practices, Policies, … Continue reading →

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Back to school: Ten commandments of tech support

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Reposted for a new school year! The ten commandments of school tech support Thou shalt test the fix. Thou shalt talk to actual students and teachers and make time to watch how  technology works during actual class time, not just … Continue reading →

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‘Research dispels common ed-tech myths’

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Contrary to popular opinion, newer teachers aren’t any more likely to use technology in their lessons than veteran teachers, and a lack of access to technology does not appear to be the main reason why teachers do not use it: … Continue reading →

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New GenYES curriculum units and activities

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

At Generation YES, we work hard to make sure that our member schools have the most up-to-date resources to teach students how to help teachers with technology. This summer we’ve added some new activities, including some whole new units with … Continue reading →

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Connecting ed-tech to ed-reform

Posted on August 9, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

The design of American education is obsolete, not meeting the needs of our students and our society, and ignores most of what we have learned about education and learning in the past century. This panel will explore a new paradigm, … Continue reading →

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Do you sleep with your cell phone? Pew Study on Millennials

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials — the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium — have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to … Continue reading →

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Project-ing Tech Literacy

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

More reaction to the new whitepaper Assessing Technology Literacy: The Case for an Authentic, Project-Based Learning Approach (Read more or download PDF) From Education Week: “A new whitepaper addressing recent calls for technology literacy education argues any such education should … Continue reading →

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The ISTE opening keynote – what I wish had been said

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

I know  this is not fair – Monday morning quarterbacking what someone else said in a keynote. I respect people who keynote, it’s a very difficult job to be entertaining while delivering a coherent, interesting message for a large, diverse … Continue reading →

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Reality check – is panic over technology overblown?

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Sylvia Martinez

“NEW forms of media have always caused moral panics: the printing press, newspapers, paperbacks and television were all once denounced as threats to their consumers’ brainpower and moral fiber. So too with electronic technologies. PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing discourse … Continue reading →

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