Recent publicity for me and CASTLE – Edutopia, T.H.E. Journal, Fort Dodge Messenger, ISU Talk About IT College of Human Sciences
Thought I’d share some recent publicity that CASTLE and I have gotten. I’ve been sitting on some of these for a while and wanted to get them all out so I can focus on NECC ’09!
Edutopia
Quick: Name ten excellent Web sites related to the grade level or subject area you teach.
Scott McLeod, coordinator of the educational-administration program at Iowa State University, recently posed that question on his blog, Dangerously Irrelevant. Many of the comments his readers left echo McLeod’s assertion that the Internet delivers “a paucity of high-quality online resources for educators.”
McLeod and others don’t deny the abundance of online resources teachers have at their fingertips. The challenge is sifting through all that stuff to find what you need — and then knowing how to incorporate the gems into your curriculum.
T.H.E. Journal
SCOTT MCLEOD SAYS the great sin in the way professional development is provided in this country is one of omission. On his blog, McLeod, an associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Iowa State University and the coordinator of the department’s Educational Administration Program, writes, “Most of our school leaders have received no training whatsoever when it comes to 21st-century schooling.”
It is not totally their fault, he says. Few higher ed programs for administrators even have a course dealing with digital technology, and if they do, the course generally covers basic software, not leadership. Neither school districts nor professional organizations offer workshops in the area either. As a result, no movement can be made toward 21stlearning environments: When leaders are clueless about technology and the impact it can have in classrooms, they are powerless to change their school or district into one that provides tech-enabled instruction for students.
Fort Dodge (IA) Messenger (this link might expire?)
In a world where so much revolves around technology, high school students often only have the opportunity to use technology as part of their in-school learning process for an average of 30 minutes per week.
That is something that Scott McLeod, associate professor of educational leadership at Iowa State University, would like to see change in Iowa classrooms.
McLeod was the keynote speaker Tuesday afternoon at the Iowa Central Summer Science Institute at Iowa Central Community College, where he addressed a group of 25 high school and college science instructors on how they can implement technology in the classroom and why it is so crucial for students to be able to develop workplace skills and remain engaged in their course work.
ISU Talk About IT
ISU College of Human Sciences
See the original here… (pp. 18-19)
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