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Everyone is talking about how their state stacks up on this report.
The great state of Oregon
The great state of Minnesota
The great state of Florida
Since I have 7 classroom computers (actually 9 with my two) and our school has a computer lab, we’re doing pretty good, even if my state isn’t. The part of the report that I found interesting was in the upper-right of page 2 which was titled: Capacity to use and listed the requirements for teacher and administrators. First, it’s not part of administrators standards (it is part of teachers). Teachers have to get trained initially to get a current credential, but not to get recertified, while administrators don’t need it for initial credential but do for recertifying? Seems like something up Scott McLeod’s alley.
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Matt Horne
// Mar 31, 2007 at 11:45 am
When you mention it that way, maybe we’re not doing so bad here in Oregon. I do have 6 classroom computers and we have two computer labs, 10 or so projectors, all teachers have a laptop, almost every classroom has classroom computers.
Thinking about it, I wonder why my school SEEMS so technologically with-it and the state got such a rotten score? Hmmm???
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ESL_Technology » Blog Archive » I thought some more about it…
// Mar 31, 2007 at 11:53 am
[...] After reading Alice Mercer’s post about the EdWeek Technology ratings it got me thinking… In my ESL classroom I have four permanent student workstations. Every teacher in the building has their own laptop. We have a fully functional wireless network. We have two computer labs, each with 30 computers. We do all of our attendance, grades, S.I.S. and discipline tracking online. My ESL students are tested using the computer-based ELPA. We have a 30 laptop cart, all wireless. Our copy machines are networked for scanning, faxing, printing, and binding. All this seems to me to be pretty technologically with-it. [...]
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ESL_Technology
// Mar 31, 2007 at 11:54 am
Technology Counts 2007: State Technology Reports by Education Week…
Today’s issue of Education Week is all about technology in education. Right up my alley. By far the most intriguing thing to me was the Detailed State Reports on the access, use, and capacity of technology in education, the State Technology Gra…
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Kobus van Wyk
// Apr 3, 2007 at 2:37 am
We are in the Southern tip of Africa (Cape Town area) and thought that we have an impossible task of catch-up to do. However, your article and comments are quite encouraging, since it seems as if you are grappling with the same issues as we are.
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alicemercer
// Apr 3, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Howdy Kobus! I’m trying to see your website, but it’s not going through, can you send it to me via email? I’m alice_mercer on yahoo.com.
Question, how many computers do you have in your classrooms/school? Do they have an internet connection. I was under the impression that South Africa was pretty developed, but that much of the development was uneven (rural vs. urban, shanty towns vs. cities).
BTW, you might want to check out http://dangerouslyirrelevant.com today. It has a link to Gapminder which shows charts on a number of development metrics. The fellow who did it, Hans Rosling, has the thankless task of teaching the first world about the true state of the third world (and the variety of development levels found there). I think Scott has a link to the TED talk where Rosling presented this site.
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