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COATT Camp
COATT will be sponsoring its 2nd annual COATT Camp. This year’s
conference will be held at Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan,
June 20-22, 2005. The purpose of the 3-day workshop is to provide a venue
for a collaborative exchange for educators to share ideas on technology
integration, disseminate best practices, identify technology implementation
barriers, and explore potential solutions.
Summer Reading
Powering Up: Learning to Teach Well With Technology by Eileen M. Coppola.
Despite many powerful visions of how technology can improve teaching
and learning, the use of computers in schools continues to be limited.
The author provides an in-depth study of a computer-using school and
analyzes the relationships among teachers’ knowledge, their ongoing
learning, school organizational culture, and policy to understand how
the school developed high-quality use of computers.
Electronic Transfer
Education Week has published the eighth edition of Technology Counts.
Technology Counts 2005 illustrates the changes in budgeting for technology
dollars in school districts. The article found at http://www.edweek.org indicated
that “technology directors in 44 states and the District
of Columbia indicate funding or competition from other spending priorities
the biggest challenges they face in trying to pay for K-12 technology…” The
major competition for funds is the data banks districts establish for
NCTB requirements.
Advanced Placement Program – and Success
in College
Advanced Placement Program (AP) approaches its
fiftieth anniversary. The College Board has released the first-ever Advanced
Placement Report (http://www.collegeboard.com/about/news_info/ap/2005/index.html)
to the Nation, showing that all 50 states and the District of Columbia
have achieved an increase in the percentage of high school students
succeeding in college-level AP courses. Research shows that strong
correlations exist between AP success and college success. Students
who succeed on one or more AP Exams are much more likely than their
peers to complete a bachelor's degree in four years or less.
Primary Documents - Churchill Speech Interactive
Primary
documents provide a prospective in the education of our students in a
way no other materials can fill. The Churchill Speech Interactive (http://www.churchillspeeches.com/)
provides an interactive hearing and reading of the speech, organized
along major themes of this historical period. The first edition of the
Churchill Speech Interactive focuses on the renowned 'Iron Curtain' speech
of March 5, 1946. The speech, officially titled 'Sinews of Peace', was
delivered at Westminster College, Fulton Missouri at the invitation of
U.S. President Truman.
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