Comments on: School 2.0 session at NECC, Timothy Magner

By: North Carolina DEN » EdTechConnect Series - Tim Magnar…

North Carolina DEN » EdTechConnect Series - Tim Magnar… — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:51:52 +0000

[...] shared theÂ School 2.0 Toolkit. Â If you missed that presentation, you can read about itÂ here,Â hereÂ andÂ here, or even better, hear from Tim himself at the EdTechConnect! [...]

By: Pennsylvania » EdTechConnect Series Kicks Off

Pennsylvania » EdTechConnect Series Kicks Off — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:00:31 +0000

[...] shared theÂ School 2.0 Toolkit. Â If you missed that presentation, you can read about itÂ here,Â hereÂ andÂ here, or even better, hear from Tim himself at the EdTechConnect! Â We hope you will be able to [...]

By: DEN Blog Network » EdTechConnect featuring Tim Magnar, US Deptartment of Educational Technology

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:42:27 +0000

By: Jim Gates

Jim Gates — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:50:11 +0000

You did well! You got a lot of it. But, the fact that you gave up and felt lost is interesting. One reason why college professors are trying to ban laptops from the classroom is that they claim that the laptops turn the kids into very poor stenographers. The students were trying to write it all down without having done any processing of the data first.

I tried the same thing, and had much worse results as I must be a slower typist than you are. But, it did make me think about just giving kids laptops in class without any instruction on how to take actual notes. You WERE tying to transcribe the whole thing for us, I’ll bet. I know *I* was when I tried it. I failed miserably.

So, I learned an important lesson. If we want the students to use the computer to take notes, we’d better teach them HOW. And having them try to write it all down isn’t going to work.

It was great to meet you in Atlanta.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:16:29 +0000

The NCLB logo is there because, after all, Tim is part of a very political administration which, in the end, must always push the party line.

Having expended my cynicism I will say that Tim is a pretty good guy and really is trying to do the right thing with regard to expanding and improving the use of technology in the classroom.

Thanks for the live blog. I missed the session.

By: Change Agency - Advocating a better education system for the 21st Century. » Snippets from NECC 2007 Tuesday June 26

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:43:18 +0000

[...] this session?! I came across session notes from Wesley Fryer, Jeff Utecht, Chris Lehmann, Chris (Crucial Thought), and Ryan Bretag. Lots of good stuff in each of these posts — my favorite quote: [...]