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What’s the purpose of going 1:1

May 13, 2009
What’s the purpose of going 1:1

0(Full Disclosure: I believe every high school student should have a laptop) The New York Times wrote an article on May 4th, 2007 that resurfaced via Twitter last night. Titled Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops, It took me less than four paragraphs to start shaking my head in disbelief at the way this...
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Planning for 21st Century Technologies

January 7, 2008

0Finished! Thank you to everyone who gave feedback over the five posting about a 21st Century Tech plan. I have been rethinking, reworking, and rewriting based on the comments left on the blog posts and created this 21 page PDF document that brings it all together. Planning for 21st Century Technologies I hope it is useful...
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Tech Plan Part 5 – Conclusion

November 19, 2007

0Full PDF of the entire Tech Plan will be out shortly with updates from those who left comments and made me think! In the 21st Century, schools need to support locally but think globally. School’s must have a local infrastructure that supports learning but that allows students and teachers to learn and interact globally. Technology...
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Tech Plan Part 4 – Implementation

November 13, 2007
Tech Plan Part 4 – Implementation

0When you get right down to it all the technology in the world and the best support structure are nothing if you do not take the time to implement the technology in a way that supports the structure of the entire plan. The process of implementing your tech plan can have lasting consequences on...
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Tech Plan Part 3- Support

November 1, 2007
Tech Plan Part 3- Support

0Support Structure You can have the best educational portal, and the best infrastructure, but if you do not have the support in place to both help teachers use/understand technology and support infrastructural needs then the money you spend on hardware will be lost. Throughout the late 90s and into the 21st century schools have spend a...
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Tech Plan Part 2 – School Wide Systems

October 22, 2007
Tech Plan Part 2 – School Wide Systems

0Technology whether we like it or not reaches into everything we do in schools today. The Student Information Systems that run our schools hold more critical data than any other single program in most schools. As we design our school wide systems in the 21st Century we must think about how all this information...
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