Presenters: John Boyer and Katie Pritchard, Virginia Tech University John Boyer, a.k.a. “The Plaid Avenger,” has grown his world studies class at Virginia Tech University to its current mega-sized class of nearly 3,000. How does Boyer accomplish this seemingly amazing feat? The true answer is that he is more “community manager” than traditional classroom teacher. [...]
SXSWedu Session Topic: Navigating Success: Moving Families Out of Poverty and Into Education
Presenters: Annette Carlisle and Russell Lowery-Hart of Panhandle Twenty/20 and Elia Moreno of Cal Farley’s “I feel it is my job, as author Jim Collins says, to pull up the rock and look at the squiggly things underneath.” — Annette Carlisle Because Texas ranks near the bottom in education attainment levels and near the top [...]
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SXSWedu Session Topic: 1-to-1 iPads in K-12 Schools
Presenters: Brad Smith and Steven Wilbanks of Westlake High School and Carl Hooker and Diane Carter of Eanes ISD “Get [the iPads] in the teachers’ hands early. Give the teachers at least a semester to review and try out.” — Carl Hooker, Eanes ISD A panel of technology staff members, a teacher and a student [...]
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The download on SXSWedu: Annual education conference hits stride in second year by Terry Morawski
Annual education conference hits stride in second year by Terry Morawski Two things were on the minds of the K-12 educators in attendance at the second annual SXSWedu Conference in Austin, March 6-8: digital textbooks and Online Education Resource (OER) Management. Much of the conference programming was the result of the U.S. Department of Education’s [...]
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Photo Feature: Second annual SXSWedu heats up in Austin
The second annual SXSWedu kicked off the South by Southwest Interactive, Film and Music Festival in Austin in March. According to festival organizers, SXSWedu seeks to “converge the wide variety of stakeholders who share an interest in 21st century innovation and best practices.” Attendees represented teachers, administrators and university professors, as well as business, [...]
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