Pushing the digital agenda
Tonight, the twitter # edchat event will focus on who will start a major education reform. Will it be teachers? administrators? parents? students? A couple of weeks ago a few educators and parents put their heads together to try and find a solution to bring parents into the 21st century with respect to their child’s education. You can read about it in this blog post. What is curious to me is that only a few of the people who stopped by took the time to fill out the survey. A lot of people read the post - twittered out what a great idea - “Di

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: You Want Me To Use This In My Classroom? What’s Th
I’m sharing with you this blog post from Steven Anderson. It is a summary of a #edchat meetup this Tuesday night. I missed the conversation but I’s like to mention parents and what an impact they could have. That is why we are starting a program for parents Digital Parent Ask you parents if they would sign up for a course on web 2.0 tools. Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: You Want Me To Use This In My Classroom? What&#

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Castle College to get £100,000 worth of IT investment STUDENTS in Nottingham will benefit from £100,000 of new equipment – including Nintendo Wii consoles and iPods. Castle College is hoping the gadgets will encourage 300 children from disadvantaged backgrounds to learn to use modern

Parents and teachers create online courses - Digital Parent 101
Last night on our regular webcast series, Parents as Partners at www.Edtechtalk.com Justin Reeve, Carol McGuire, Penny Lindballe brainstormed with show hosts Lorna Costantini and Matt Montagne about the development of a project that would help parents. Here is the recording from our discussions. Recording This is a collaborative effort to create a site specifically for parents of K-12 students. We find that parents are often not aware of the educational uses of the Internet, Web 2.0 technologies, and social media. This

The Arms Race Between Teenagers And Parents Continues
From TechCrunch comes this interesting story. The Arms Race Between Teenagers And Parents Continues Back when I was a teenager my parents had a simple rule – I had to be home by midnight. There was a doozie of an e