The Classroom Teacher’s Technology Survival Guide By Doug Johnson (© 2012, Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint: Hoboken, NJ) is for educators who want good teaching, not technology, as the focus of their classroom. The book outlines pragmatic ways all teachers can use computers, the Internet, digital cameras, and other technology tools to enhance professional productivity. Doug offers ways to enhance current practices and create motivating projects. He helps with project assessments, distractions technology may cause, and safe use for all grade levels. He also takes a look into the future and offers many resources for further study. Click this icon below to get at least one copy to pass around the teacher’s room or just get a copy for each teacher at your school to use as part of your technology training program. You won’t be disappointed.
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Friday, June 1st, 2012In and Out of Trouble with Facebook & Twitter
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012Some of these tweets were part of a previous post, and I adding more as I find them. They seem important enough to keep up front for a while. While social media can be fun for some and profitable for others, some adults and youngsters manage to use it to get in trouble. Each of these stories should stimulate classroom discussion. You might want to have students come up with their own ideas of how to stay out of trouble first.
Principal resigns after apparently pretending to be kid on Facebook & befriending 300 students @courosa @mcleod
Do schools have the right to discipline students for what they say via social media off campus? @iEducator
Eight ways teachers get in trouble using Facebook – @DrDougGreen
How not to get into trouble on Facebook – @DrDougGreen
Social Media For Administrators – Read this if you still think you can avoid using it. @ShellTerrell
Quit Facebook or be expelled, school principal says. @BrianTomkins
Parents of underage Facebookers should be reported, Principal says. Also check link at bottom about girls being barred from graduation for bikini Facebook pictures. @s_bearden
This is why parents should NOT allow kids under 13 on Facebook. @s_bearden
Teacher calls her student the devil’s spawn on Facebook and only gets 2-yr suspension so far. Plans to appeal. @NYPost
Mom’s Facebook post of children fighting sparks outrage. This is stupid times two. @BrianTomkins
11 Ways To Lose Your Job On Facebook Jeffbullass Blog @gcouros
State law requires sex offenders to list their status on Facebook. This is a first. Will others follow? @iEducator Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity @mashable
Swiss Olympic Athlete bounced for racist Tweet – You are only as good as your worst Tweet kids. @NYPost
Boy leaves Facebook message that causes mom to turn him in for murder. I’m glad this happened, but there is a lesson here for everyone. @NYPost
Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World – Book Summary
Monday, May 28th, 2012Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World (©2009, Ballantine Books: New York, NY) by Homa Sabet Tavangar will help you prepare children for today’s increasingly interconnected world. This is a hands-on, one-of-a-kind parenting toolbox that will give children a vital global perspective. This is a book that parents, grandparents, and educators can turn to again and again for inspiration and motivation as they strive to open the minds of children everywhere. It will also help adults gain global awareness as becoming a world citizen is a lifelong process. As it’s never too late to get started, you can start by clicking below to purchase this outstanding resource from Amazon. Every school and home should have one.
Should Educators Talk of The Bar or Your Bar?
Sunday, May 27th, 2012 Should Education use The Bar or Your Bar?
by Douglas W. Green, EdD ©2012
Twitter: @DrDougGreen
Email: DGreen@stny.rr.com
Blog: HTTP://DrDougGreen.Com
Today I offer an original piece that takes on the folly educators indulge in when they talk about The Bar. I hope you enjoy it. Please share.
- In education, we often hear talk about how we should raise the bar. The bar they speak of is a metaphor for the passing standards we set in schools as well as at state and national levels. This metaphor comes from the world of track and field where people who compete in the high jump or the pole vault try to jump over a pre set bar. What educational leaders and policy makers miss is while there is one bar that all players use, each athlete gets to decide where the bar will be set for their first try. Thus the commonly used metaphor of “the bar” breaks down because the geniuses who use it fail to notice that there is one bar but many different heights.
Is School Hurting Your Kid?
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012Although I have been concerned about the impact of school sports programs on student health for some time, I became more concerned when I heard Sophie Altcheck (@sophiealt) at TEDNYEd. She is a senior at Horace Mann School in New York City. While aspiring to play college soccer she sustained four concussions. She now is an intern at the Brain Trauma Foundation and tries to spread concussion awareness via her Facebook pages. Here is more on the subject along with the danger heavy backpacks pose and thoughts on recess
Concussions May Be More Severe in Girls and Young Athletes. @DrDougGreen.Com
Study: Women, Teens Take Longer to Recover From Concussions. @wired
Heavy Backpacts Can Spell Chronic Back Pain for Children @NYTimes
Does your school district have a health and wellness policy that includes recess? See my comment. @EngageFamilies @Playworks @DrMerylAin
Are schools making kids sick? @MiguelEscotet