Tag: K-12
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Jobs gets rotten apples
It seems that there are more people annoyed at Jobs’ comments about teacher. California teachers are now demanding an apology. From the MacNN article: “Let me do the same. How well could a business — say, a computer company — operate if you paid its professional employees so poorly and put them in work environments…
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Jobs, Dell ruffle feathers
I saw this come up today, Jobs and Dell shared a stage in Texas and told their audience that unions and poor principles are the roadblock (Wired) to better schools in terms of technolgy advances. I haven’t seen the full article yet (I’m writing this while I’m waiting for some pictues to dump), but one…
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Copping out of Cyber-bullying – what about the parents?
This story came across my inbox this morning and it struck me that in part, the entire cyber bullying phenomena has certainly grown in scope, scale and visibility and that school admins have also started to realize a few things. One of these things is that outside of the school, there isn’t much that teachers…
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FLL 2007
For anyone who is interested in watching, the FLL completion for Alberta is this weekend. I’ll be there judging. It should be interesting with the NXT kits being used (I think) and if the juniors are involved, it could be a really fun weekend. Edit – The Longhorns won this year (they are from Calgary)…
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Snap Preview Anywhere – good for Schools
If you are running a school related blog, then I think you should be using Snap. If for no other reason than it allows students to see content before they click and in a way it can be used to help promote media literacy and show that what a link says may not be where…