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22 year educator, currently the Director of Instructional Technology with the El Paso Independent School District in El Paso Texas.
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At 11:31am on September 18th, 2008, Tim Holt said…
Alix, try again...let it load a second...

Seems to work here..
TBH
At 9:57am on September 18th, 2008, Alix E. Peshette said…
Tim,
I went to your blog about the Digital Equity Interview: Bonnie Bracey. The pages come up with just the comments, no blog text. I hit reload and got the same thing. Hummm....

-Alix
At 11:31am on September 8th, 2008, Shari Sentlowitz said…
Hi there! This shari from Sony - I am working on project involving video and technology in K-12. I would love to hear how your district is integrating video production into curriculum with students and teachers both using the tools.
At 12:28pm on September 7th, 2008, Tim Holt said…
I agree...
But since this was a statewide presentation...I just thought I would put out what was presented..

grin
At 11:06am on September 7th, 2008, Christian Long said…
Tim: Thank you for sending out the link re: the Texas Virtual School Network. I made it to the 20 min mark (I assume, since there is no time stamp on the vid) and found myself struggling to remain interested. The vast majority of their talking points (i.e. bullet points) could have been sent out as a 2-5 page PDF...and they could have done a 5-10 min video that actually put some energy into 'selling' the program. The video is void of any effort to engage the audience or show what the courses/portals even look like. Was 57 min of a video really necessary? Do you -- from your professional seat -- think this video/launch was a success? Again, thank you for keeping me in the loop...but I am hoping that the state will do a deep-think as to the value of hour long videos if this is what they envision will be the outcome.
At 5:44pm on August 31st, 2008, Nellie Deutsch said…
Hi Tim,
You made me chuckle.
Thank you.
Nellie
At 1:30pm on August 18th, 2008, Rodrigo Vieira Ribeiro said…
You saw... I follow you!

Thank you for invite! I´m in!
:-)
At 1:16pm on August 18th, 2008, Sylvia Martinez said…
C'mon, succumb to peer pressure....
Sylvia (follow me here!)
At 1:11pm on August 18th, 2008, Sharon Eilts said…
When you figure out Twitter, let me know.

Sharon
At 10:07pm on June 17th, 2008, Joseph Chmielewski said…
I was unable to view the letter on your Blog.

Maybe this was the same message that I received, but didn't bother to read.

My comment is that the voices saying that Ed Tech funding is off base have always been there...especially in the silence of teachers who were afraid to speak out against the wasted expenditure on Ed Tech.

Not that the equipment that was purchased wasn't quality, but that the equipment reached old age and hung around as senile equipment for years past its refresh time...underused.

The problem is that Ed Tech folks never bothered to show...

* How we can increase student achievement with this stuff
* How we can measure that increase
or,
* How this stuff decreases the amount of work that teachers have to do

In addition, the technology budgets were out of whack!

Too little funding was allocated for identifying exactly what technology integration would produce, and too little funding went to show exactly what gains student made in learning that they could only have made by using the technology.

Too little funding was allocated for teacher professional development, and almost nothing was allocated for building the back-end infrastructure and programming that would automate technology use by teachers and students.

In short, until definitive, replicable student achievement; directly related to technology produces measureable curricular content area results...attributable to technology...there will always be murmuring.

And teachers will address these issues in silence, and in stonewalling the extra work that integrating the technology takes...work they undertake without an expectation that students will learn more by using the technology.

I address some of these issues in an upcoming newsletter article, and I intend to address them further at NECC Open Source programs.

I also have a set of online Technology Integration Web links pointing to the reasons for the "Failed Technology Integration" history that we anguish over.

Check out:

http://www.edubloggercon.com/NECC+2008
 
 

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