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Tag: K-12

  • Students in one St. Albert school finally allowed to “officially” power up

    Well, if you are an edtecher and haven’t seen the story about Richard S. Fowler Catholic Junior High School, here is your chance. Just some thoughts as the program starts in September so we won’t really know how things are going for at least six months: Good on the school for providing a class set…

  • What are the new literacies that schools need to teach?

    This came up this weekend talking to my wife. It seems that in her school, there is a cadre of teachers who think that kids need to learn “keyboarding” to be literate in the new reality that will be where they find themselves in the future. This remark was quickly retorted by another teacher who…

  • Smarter Boards

    I’m no fan of smart boards, mostly because of the lack of training and related infrastructure that comes along with them, but when I saw this, I just had to laugh. I can just imagine what will happen to these boards when the classroom teacher forgets the password to transfer the information – they will…

  • Name the next Rover

    With Wall-E out there showing off the galaxy with the World Wide Telescope with MS, there is now another way that you can reach out and learn more about the world beyond our Blue Marble – NASA is offering the chance to name the next Rover for students in US K-12 schools.It would be cool…

  • Aurora Watch – for Edmonton

    If you live in the Edmonton area, this is a cool resource if you like to watch the dancing lights – esp if you want to be able to get some pictures of them.