On any given day, I get 200 or so emails in my inbox. Some days more, but seldom less.
While there is the occasional spam, most of my emails are requests from my schools for advice or tech support, followed by blogs and journals that I subscribe to. Over the years, I have become very particular about which emails I open first. Support requests always take priority but the very next thing I look at is my feed from eSchool News. There is ALWAYS something from them that is new, fresh and informative.
So, after dealing with a dozen small issues (switches down, DLS lines not working properly as well as a few "Kubi" sessions) I had a chance to grab a coffee and read a great article from eSchool on: Do one-to-one laptop programs work.
The short answer to this question is: yes... but as those of you who regularly read my blog know, I constantly advocate that it requires great planning and always, always, always the teachers must have great technical support and professional development. Oh yes, and the program must NOT be created for the sake of adding technology! It MUST be for the sake of enhancing the learning experience!
So, if you are "newbie" to my blog site, here are some relevant blog posts that I have written on that topic over the last while:
- Professional Development, the food for life-long Learners
- Microlearning and Professional Development – a Match made in Heaven!
- Video Based Teacher Assessment (An unabashed plug for Swivl)
- If you think it's coding, but it's not! It's... really a Lifetime of Problem Solving! (Sorry Mother Nature...)
Give them a read and let me know what you think!
As always, your comments are solicited on the blogsite.
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