   | | | Head of the Class |  | | |  | - How should schools use technology to help students learn?
Technology has been shown to help students learn, educators and experts say. However, some say blended instruction and flipped classrooms are the most desirable models, while others tout the benefits of including more technology in the classroom. Others still have identified the need for schools to use technology to help students connect with the real world and investigate potential careers. Mashable (8/12)        |  |
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 | | | eLearning | | | |  | - Teachers invite students' technology into the classroom
In Arizona, some teachers and school districts are continuing bring-your-own-technology programs or testing them for the first time this year. "I think the bring-your-own-technology is going to be the wave of the future," said Karl Johnson, a high-school history and government teacher. "Kids have the newest computer phone that's capable of so much, so we should get them to use it. You can't win that battle telling them not to bring it." The Arizona Republic (Phoenix) (8/11) - A guide to teaching visual literacy
 Educator Mark Phillip describes a unit he taught on visual literacy and shares a step-by-step look at several of the unit's lessons. Students watch news reports, advertisements and political commercials to examine the facts, the images and music. "If kids are to make informed, free choices, we have to teach them to be critically conscious of all efforts to manipulate their thinking," Phillips writes. Edutopia.org (8/9) - N.C. district slows technology-integration efforts
In North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, officials have altered a plan announced in January to equip every school in the district with Wi-Fi beginning in August to cultivate an environment where students are able to use their own technology in school. Instead, about 20 schools will pilot bring-your-own-technology programs when the school year begins, while the district prepares to adopt a policy to regulate such initiatives. The Charlotte Observer (N.C.) (8/13) - School hotline on data tampering nears capacity
Officials in Ohio have increased the capacity for a tip line regarding data tampering in Columbus schools after the hotline, which can handle 20 calls, received 19 during its first night of operation. The hotline, which was launched on Thursday, was opened because of concerns that some employees felt uncomfortable stepping forward. The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) (8/11) | | | - Why connected educators often feel different
It can be easy for connected educators to feel like they are different from their colleagues, according to K-8 technology-teacher Mary Beth Hertz. In this blog post, Hertz writes that the "new species of educator" has developed a community, where the members speak the same language. "However, we need to stop looking at ourselves as different or separate from our peers," she writes. "We are all on the same continuum, just moving at varying rates." SmartBrief/SmartBlog on Education (8/10)  | No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense."
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