December 2010
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“Students will be coming to campus with Kindles or iPads (or both), and smart...”
– http://bit.ly/gXLTNu
How many students got an iPad, a Kindle, a Nook, a Sony eReader, or some other kind of portable book reader over the holidays? As more and more students get them, will the pressure increase to make textbooks and/or course packs work on them? I expect so, but there are still...
You suck at PowerPoint →
What are the 5 things to do in order to improve high stakes PowerPoint presentations? This slideshare presentation demonstrates good practices while listing bad practices.
http://slidesha.re/htKCeQ
Note that this is what I call a stand-alone PowerPoint presentation. All the information is printed on each slide, in complete sentences. This is NOT what a PowerPoint that will be given as a...
“The tragedy is that the discussion about black kids in school — boys as well as...”
– This research in the 1970s compared nine teaching methods and found Direct Instruction, sounding out words rather than learning them whole (phonics), using their script, was the best no matter what.
The Root: Getting The Best Teaching Tools To Schools : NPR