One of the buzz phrases these days with the arrival of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is “career readiness.” I don’t think there is any educator that would disagree with the notion that we want to prepare our students to be successful beyond graduation and into college and career. But after watching this talk by […]
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Managing Digital Distraction
The graphic below was created in response to some results from a survey we administered last spring connected to our technology initiative, Teaching and Learning 2014. A consistent perception over the past two years of surveys has been that a laptop computer in the hands of a teenager is a digital distraction. This feeling is, […]
Google Drive as cloud storage
We have been using Google Apps for Education in my school district for about five years, under the name Falcon Apps. It has really become a part of the culture throughout the organization and has worked particularly well with our 1:1 laptop/learning initiative TL2014. For the past five years we have provided students with email […]