John D on flipped classrooms and board policy setting

If the student is watching a video, there can be no interaction. This generation already has enough problems with face-to-face communication. Also, how well constructed can the lesson be if a student can have a question in the beginning of the video that doesn’t get answered until the next day? This sounds like a way of forcing technology into education instead of using it as a tool to enhance learning. This is a dangerous slope to go down and clearly one that the BOE (which is responsible for policy creation), must be well aware of before implementation.
John D – Teacher and former member of IUFSD BOE

AND SEE:
• Tweets from high school students in flipped classrooms
• Buying technology – business v. schools
• Response to administrator technology memo
• John D on flipped classrooms and board policy
• Wrong track
• “Our goal”
• The digital natives are restless
• Flipped classrooms (and more) in IUFSD
• Email from an NYU student on his experience in a flipped classroom
• Math teacher (and member of CC development team) Vern Williams on
…flipped classrooms

Wrong track

• Creating an IUFSD Technology Vision – 1/28/2014
• Creating an IUFSD Vision for Technology (annotated)

AND SEE:
• Buying technology – business v. schools
• Response to administrator technology memo
• John D on flipped classrooms and board policy
• Wrong track
• “Our goal”
• The digital natives are restless
• Flipped classrooms (and more) in IUFSD
• Email from an NYU student on his experience in a flipped classroom

“Our goal”

Our goal and expectation is for the integration of technology to become as ubiquitous as pencil and paper in our classrooms.
Creating the Vision for Technology

The vendors are circling.

UPDATE 3/2/2014: No they’re not. The vendors are circling, part 2

AND SEE:
• Are flipped classrooms the most exciting thing happening here?
• Creating an IUFSD Technology Vision
• Creating an IUFSD Technology Vision – ANNOTATED – 1.2.2014
• Response to administrator technology memo
• IEF #25 Off Cycle Grant Request – Expanding the Possibilites of
..Learning Through Technology Rich Classrooms – 2013-14
• “Our goal”
• Wrong track
• Flipped classrooms (and more) in IUFSD
• John D on flipped classrooms and board policy
• Buying technology – business v. schools

Students and flipped classrooms
• The digital natives are restless
• Email from an NYU student on his experience in a flipped classroom

Health and screens
• Education Week | ‘Blue Light’ May Impair Students’ Sleep, Studies Say
• Blue Light Stimulates Cognitive Activity in Visually Blind
• Ten reasons why handheld devices are unsafe for children

“Digital natives”
• So-Called “Digital Natives” Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows
• Digital natives (London School of Economics)
• Jakob Nielsen, 2005: Usability of Websites for Teenagers Scroll down
…for “Misconceptions About Teenagers.”
• Jakob Nielsen, 2013: Teenage Usability: Designing Teen-Targeted
…Websites by HOA LORANGER and JAKOB NIELSEN on February 4,
…2013

AND SEE:
• Technology
• Flipped classrooms
• 1-to-1 computing

The digital natives are restless

Tweets from the front

AND SEE:
• Buying technology – business v. schools
• Response to administrator technology memo
• John D on flipped classrooms and board policy
• Wrong track
• “Our goal”
• The digital natives are restless
• Flipped classrooms (and more) in IUFSD
• Email from an NYU student on his experience in a flipped classroom

Flipped classrooms (and more) in Irvington

• Are flipped classrooms the most exciting thing happening here?
• Creating an IUFSD Technology Vision – 1/24/2014
• Creating an IUFSD Vision for Technology – 1/24/2014 (annotated)
• IEF #25 Off Cycle Grant Request – Expanding the Possibilites of Learning Through Technology Rich Classrooms – 2013-14
• District newsletter applauds flipped classrooms
• Education Week | ‘Blue Light’ May Impair Students’ Sleep, Studies Say
• Blue Light Stimulates Cognitive Activity in Visually Blind
• Digital natives (London School of Economics)
• So-Called “Digital Natives” Not Media Savvy, New Study Shows
• Jakob Nielsen, 2005: Usability of Websites for Teenagers Scroll down for “Misconceptions About Teenagers.”
• Flipped Classroom Tweets
• Jakob Nielsen, 2005: Usability of Websites for Teenagers (Scroll
• Jakob Nielsen, 2013: Teenage Usability: Designing Teen-Targeted Websites by HOA LORANGER and JAKOB NIELSEN on February 4, 2013

AND SEE:

• Constructivism
• Do we want to be a constructivist district?
• Flipped classrooms
• Technology