Oak Hills Portfolio » 6. BYOD: Developing an Acceptable Use Policy. With students and staff bringing in their own devices we found a need to completely rework our acceptable use policy. In its previous form, our AUP read more like an unacceptable use policy. It spent more time highlighting what a student could NOT do, rather than what they could do. Developing an AUP was a process. We spent considerable time reviewing other AUPs as well as researching effective acceptable use policies. Broadly, our goals were: Develop an AUP that outlined appropriate behavior in positive termsOutline the procedures involved with following or not following the AUP OH High School Sign Off At the beginning of the year, students and staff sign off electronically that they have received the AUP.
Sign-offs are completed through a combination of Google Forms and a Google Site. We believe that the tremendous value of technology and the information technology network as an educational resource far outweighs the potential risks. Consequences for Violation. Supervision and Monitoring. A Parent's Guide to 21st-Century Learning. You’ll find a selection of outstanding online resources and projects, sorted by grade levels, to provide a glimpse of successful school programs. Elementary School: The World Peace Game Skype in the Classroom Peace Helpers Become Classroom Problem Solvers Middle School: Down the Drain Digiteen: Digital Citizenship for Teenagers World of Warcraft in School High School: World Youth News Digital Youth Network Money Corps: Finance Experts as Guest Teachers Across the Grades: More Ideas that Work Ten Tips to Bring 21st-Century Skills Home Resources: Bring the C's to Your School.
Are Teachers of Tomorrow Prepared to Use Innovative Tech? Getty Images With a new generation of teachers coming into the work force, there’s a discrepancy between what principals expect of teachers-in-training and what they’re actually learning in school. A new Project Tomorrow report surveying principals concluded that they want to hire new teachers with creative ideas about how technology can be leveraged to create authentic and differentiated learning experiences. But student-teachers report that their tech training focuses only on simple management tools. At the same time, the report concludes that those who have the biggest influence on new teachers — veteran educators — don’t always embrace new ways of using technology to engage students. Only half of current working teachers believe they can use technology to motivate students to learn, compared to 75 percent of incoming teachers. Teachers-in-training say coursework focuses on technologies that help a teacher stay organized, rather than ways to engage students.
Related. Technology integration by design SmartBlogs. Over the past year, most of my time has been spent helping fellow teachers and school leaders to “think backwards.” And while it’s tempting to imagine this merely involves reciting the alphabet from Z to A, it’s actually an instructional framework (developed by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe) where the goals precede action. Beginning with student-focused goals allows us to ensure that we strategically prioritize time and resources in our classrooms. Although this way of thinking was initially designed for instructional units, it is also the perfect methodology for planning a new technology initiative.
In essence, this three-step process helps you to remain hyper-focused on student learning as you select devices, formats (carts, BYOD, 1:1, etc.) and applications. Step 1: Define the goals of your technology initiative using desired outcomes, not tools. As you determine your goals, remember to be strategic. Your School Will Be in the Cloud. Written by Mark Brumley I predict that your school will be using a cloud-based solution within the next five years…here’s why.
First of all, if you are not sure what I’m talking about, cloud computing basically means that your applications such as email client, word processing, etc. are internet-based. The programs are not installed on your computer. This is a little over simplistic but you get the idea. CostThe number one reason your school will go to cloud computing is cost. CompetitionGrowing competition is another reason your school will move to the cloud. DemandLastly, we will all demand cloud solutions because we want everything, everywhere we go and on any device. I would be surprised if your district or school is not already having these conversations. Mark Brumley (112 Posts) Modern Day High School Geometry Course: A Lesson in Illogic. By Barry Garelick Chances are good that most students in high school today know that the sum of the measures of angles in a triangle equals 180 degrees. Unfortunately, chances are also good that most high school students today cannot prove that proposition.
Geometry as taught today is for the most part lacking in the most important aspect of the subject: Proofs. Prior to 1980, most if not all high school geometry classes were very much proof-based. A glance at the geometry textbooks that are typically used in high schools today reveals that the problems students are given in such courses require one or two proofs that are not very challenging in a set of problems devoted to the application of theorems rather than the proving of propositions. Figure 1: This problem requires students to know and apply that the sum of the angles in a triangle equals 180 degrees, and to know what are linear pairs of angles, and that they sum to 180 degrees. Figure 2: Defeating the Purpose of a Geometry Course.