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Here is the list we came up with last night. Which ones would you choose? What might you add?

How would you use technology to facilitate or improve learning in the classroom (if you had no budgetary limits)?
How do you use technology in your every day life?
Describe the last new technology you used. How did you use it and how did you learn it?
What makes YOU a great teacher using technology?
If we were to offer technology courses, what courses could you teach and which would you take?
What types of media do you use to stay current on contemporary educational research and ideas?
What will our students need to know and be able to do in order to flourish in the world of tomorrow?
Explain the ways you ensure your students are using technology in a safe and ethical manner?
As technology revolutionizes the world in which we live, should education change? If so how, if not why not?
What are some classroom techniques you would use to foster diversity and empathy for other cultures?
Explain what you think the phrase "Shift Happens" means in the context of schools and technologies?
Is an assignment ever done? If not, how can you use technology to enhance and embrace this concept?
Do you see yourself as a facilitator of learning?
Describe in detail a project based technology lesson that one of your students might create with your guidance?
Do you consider yourself to be a trailblazer? How so, and how would this affect the way you teach?
In what ways are you going to motivate students to embrace technology?
Do you have a MySpace account and do you allow students access? Why or why not?
How would you use blogging in your classroom?
If you could create the curriculum, what do you think students should know, understand and be able to do?
Discuss your own experiences with technology including social networking?
How could you connect these responses to create a teaching and learning environment?
What kind of support do you think teachers need in order to more fully utilize technology?
How do you approach your own needs to expand your learning?
When do you feel children should first be exposed to technology?
What is inquiry based learning and how does it impact your teaching?

So I've been really impressed reading through your blog posts this last month...some really excellent thinking and comments. I'm feeling like I want to begin brining some of your blogging to my larger network, and just wanted to give you a heads up. Are you guys ok with beginning to get some broader exposure in the blogosphere??? Let me know your thoughts...Will

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Welcome to the Seton Hall blog. We'll be posting relevant links and information here as the course progresses. Attached to this post is a .pdf of the course assignments for your reference. Please let us know if you have any questions or problems.

Attachment(s): Seton.pdf

This is just a philosophical blog.  Normally, what is so important, or health, is taken for granted.  Recently colleagues in our cohort have experienced some problems with either a family member of themselves being "under the weather." 

If you don't feel well, nothing matters.  So this is just a friendly reminder to be grateful for our health and our families' health, and in spite of our hectic lives, to take care of your self. 

 

One of my favorite analogies is that of the osygen mask on the airline.  They tell you if you are traveling with someone who needs assistance, first put the mask on yourself, then help the other person.  The same is true for health, if we don't take care of ourselves, we are no good to anyone else, our job, or our quest for the Ed.D.

May god health and peace be with you his spring.

Happened across a fertile site for all sorts of education and science news. Some of it is old (2006) but most recent. Particularly found interesting the following article Statisticians: Common Ancestor of all Humans Lived 5000 years ago. Found on www.foxnews.com site. According to the authors, everyone on the planet can trace their ancestry back just 5000 years, give or take. I remember reading many years ago that all of us had a common ancestor about 250,000 years ago, but 5000! M

Please find attached a flu pandemic checklist.
Attachment(s): Flu.doc

Apparently a group of international scientists made a presentation to the UN about global warming. They seemed to agree that if we don't change our policies we're in for increasingly weird (read catastrophic) weather patterns around the world and more weather refugees. Is anyone listening? Thought it was nice that the academy awards recognized An Inconvenient Truth. Weekend is upon us. M

 

 

A recent report in Eductaion Week states that the advantages of preK and kindergarten programs for young children disappear after a few years, accordng to the phoenix based Goldwater Institute.

In third grade, those students who attended full day kindergaten or preschool had higher test scores in reading and math than those who did not, according to a study based on Arizona schools.  But by fifth grade, the study found that the test scores were comparable toother students who had not attended.  

Being on a district kindergarten committee to einvestigate xtending the day, I am wonderingif anyone has data to support full day kindergarten. I find it diifcult to belive that beingin school more would fail to have long term benefits, and belive that social skills, which are not tested, may be the advantage since kids learn to interact more productively with their peers in setting such as full-day kindergarten.

Anyone out there?   

 

For a link, see www.goldwaterinstitutue.org 

   

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Please find attached my maiden voyage podcast.

 

Thanks for listening : ) 

Attachment(s): Margot's Podcast.m4a

Found a white paper titled Using the Web for Interactive Teaching and Learning. Haven't read it yet but thought it might have some applicability for the flu assignment or perhaps for someone doing a dissertation on technology and education. M