michael edwards

Male

tyngsborough, ma

United States

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School / Work Affiliation
Tyngsborough Middle School
Blog
http://www.sciencewithmredwards.blogspot.com
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delicious id: michael.edwards
About Me
I teach 7th grade science (physics, astronomy, biology). My delicious id is michael.edwards for those that want middle school bookmarks for the previously mentioned subjects. I am constantly trying to find new web2.0 ways to allow kids to get away from the instructivist regime and allow them to learn and be creative in THEIR world, in THEIR way. My thought is that teachers and schools are usually behind the times with technology. If educators don't keep up, then we are not truly preparing students for today's world of productivity and we are forcing students to learn these skills in ignorance.

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  • Alyshia Olsen

    Hi,

    I'm sending out messages to everyone I know right now, and this classroom20 network is no exception. (I've also sent this out on other Ning networks you may be a part of.) My name is Alyshia Olsen; I am a 20 year old college student from Olin College of Engineering. I am a part of a group of 6 Olin College students (we're in Needham,MA, and engineering students) who has taken a year off to work on an education related project. I found you when I searched for middle schools on classroom20, and since our project is specific to middle schools, I thought you might be interested! Our project is called AlightLearning, and this is our "short" project description:

    Under the assumption that within ten years, the landscape of modern education will have fully integrated what we now define as new classroom media: video, online collaboration, open source curriculum and other web tools, we hope to pioneer a web software tool that acts as a platform for this new media, bringing the power of the web and its tools to students, teachers and parents in a secure, comfortable and innovative environment. Our goal is to have our free software at a pilot middle school by April 15th, 2008, continuing to develop and coordinate with our users to create a product that other schools want to pilot and use at their schools, while allowing individual teachers to implement this tool in their own classroom.

    Our project, titled Alight Learning, is currently trying to win an idea competition on Ideablob.com You can find us at http://ideablob.com/3975. We would love your support in the form of a vote within the next couple days, but more importantly we'd love your feedback and comments. Our description on Ideablob is short, and even the one above hardly gets at many of the issues we would like to take a stab at solving, but at least it's a start.

    Feel free to email me back, check out alightlearning.com, anything you like!

    Thanks,

    Alyshia Olsen
    anotherdayaway42@gmail.com

    Dec 26, 2008