shareShare this on:For many schools and school districts, the concept of professional development very much follows the “sage on the stage” model. An outside professional arrives at the school and dispenses invaluable wisdom, and teachers sit and absorb these immense thoughts. Teachers are t[...]
Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’
March 12th, 2011 - 5:18 pm § in Uncategorized
The Inerrant Word of . . . Wikipedia?
shareShare this on:An interesting blog post by Wayne Bivens-Tatum, a Philosophy and Religion Librarian at Princeton University, compared the authorship of the Bible to Wikipedia, a collaboratively-authored encyclopedia. Both works are the result of a myriad of authors, though, depending on your sp[...]
January 29th, 2011 - 2:51 pm § in Uncategorized
Laptops: Yesterday’s Treasure; Today’s Trash
shareShare this on:Much of the recent emphasis in secondary and primary education, particularly beginning in the early 2000’s, has been on 1:1 laptop initiatives. Such initiatives seek to provide a single laptop to every student enrolled in some subdivision of a school: a grade, an entire sc[...]
