The end of summer is approaching and that means family vacations are wrapping up, and students and teachers will be heading back to school. I vividly recall preparing for the new school year when I was middle school social studies teacher Excited and re-energized for the coming year, I also
Roughly a year ago, Bruce Friend, Director of SAS Curriculum Pathways, participated on a technology advisory team at a school in Raleigh, North Carolina: a place he described as a "technology-rich environment" that was not being maximized by teachers. During a lunchtime forum, he remembered one student pulling out his
Where can you find an entire school full of students engaged in learning and creativity, and administrators and staff using technology and data to provide a quality education for students? Sound too good to be true? It’s not! It’s happening in Mooresville, North Carolina. Recently a colleague, Becky de Tenley,
“Preparing more than 50 million students with the knowledge and skills to succeed in college and careers is the greatest moral and economic challenge of our era.” So reads a new bi-partisan report on digital learning. Digital Learning Now! is a call to action for governors and state education leaders.
I am not an educator. I don’t work in education administration, though I have sat in many principals’ offices. But I was motivated (which would surprise my former teachers) to write something after attending the HP/Intel Digital Learning Environments event Tuesday in Cary, NC. I sat in on a presentation
I was intrigued by Ken King’s recent post regarding North Carolina telecom executives supporting Dr. Goodnight’s call for education reform.In fact, it brought to mind an education customer we’ve been working with lately. The school is in a rural community that has implemented a 1:1 laptop initiative and is using
Cynthia Marshall, president of AT&T North Carolina introduced Dr. Goodnight to an audience of telecom executives at the North Carolina Telecommunications Industry Association’s 78th annual convention. AT&T has joined Dr. Goodnight in supporting his 1-to-1 computing initiative and Ms. Marshall asked the audience members to also join this worthy cause.
With much talk both on a local and national level regarding the need to change our educational system, it is important to solicit feedback and ideas from all who have a stake in ensuring that our students receive a top-notch education that will prepare them for social, academic and economic
