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A New Digital Divide
“In the summer of 2004, technology and education innovators and visionaries convened in Big Sky, Montana, to explore the challenges affecting the introduction of technology to improve the teaching and learning of science. In particular, they explored what educational leaders know about applying technology to improve the quality of science education for all students, and…
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How Shatner Changed the World
Tonight, I accidentally stumbled upon a show on The History Channel entitled “How William Shatner Changed the World”. As a Star Trek fan (but not a full-fledged Trekkie), my interest was immediately grabbed. Based on his book “I’m Working on That”, Shatner hosts and narrates a show that postulates how Star Trek has influenced the…
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Ready to Upgrade?
The cover story for NEA Today’s March issue is entitled Ready to Upgrade?, which discusses using technology in the classroom. If you missed the last issue, you can also catch the story at http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0603/coverstory.html The article has ideas for integrating technology at the elementary, middle and high school levels. Specifically, it discusses the use of…
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Convention Invigoration
Just getting home today from our annual Wisconsin Society of Science Teacher’s Convention, I am quite invigorated to get back into the classroom to try out some new ideas. It’s amazing how re-energizing it can be to be around people who are passionate about education, and are willing to share their ideas to everyone (what…
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Wrestling with IT
This weekend I am traveling to Wisconsin Dells for the Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers Annual Convention. This is a great convention, and I was excited to see a workshop that teaches using Windows Movie Maker. Lo and behold, this is not a program that is on our district server. So I went down to…