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Laptop Learning Seminars
This document discusses the purpose and challenges of laptop learning seminars at Castilleja School in August 2010. It notes that laptops can be used for both intellectual exploration and mass distraction. The big question is how to use laptops and other technologies to personalize learning, manage information, engage with issues, publish work, build things, have fun, develop empathy and awareness. It also references challenges teachers may face in using new technologies in the classroom.
Laptop Learning Seminars
- 1. Castilleja Laptop LearningSeminars August 2010
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- 9. Why ...are wehere?
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- 11. "laptop is apersonal laboratory for intellectual exploration and creative expression" ~ Dr. Gary Stager
- 12. "...laptops are instrumentsof mass distraction" ~ NPR piece from last spring
- 13. Big Question... "howcan we use our laptops (and other technologies) to personalize learning, manage complex streams of information, interrogate resource validity, engage with local and global issues, publish for a large audience, build cool stuff, have a bit of fun, develop empathy, network with others and expand our cultural competencies and awareness?"
- 14. "The teacher knowsalmost as little how to use [it] as his pupils" ?
- 15. "The teachers knowsalmost as little how to use chalk as his pupils" Image courtesy of World Bank Photo Collection. Creative Commons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldbank/2760560588/
- 16. Historical innovations ineducational technology...
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Editor's Notes
- #10 We want all students to start on the first day with the basic skills to be successful with their laptop learning instruments. Students are, without a doubt, our greatest allies in this effort. Have an savvy student body will help ensure early success We have a new wireless network and new printers in place...we want to have all of you onsite before school begins to make sure that your equipment works with the new wireless system and printers. We've been using our laptops for years at Castilleja, we already know this? Well, that is kinda true, but there is a difference. Previously, laptop use on campus was voluntary, so not everyone had their computers on campus each day. This year all 420 students will have their computers, which changes things. From a technology support standpoint, it makes sense for us to conduct these seminars in this fashion to increase our community skill base. Castilleja has taken the approach that we value open, unfiltered, uncensored access to the Internet. With this approach comes a great deal of responsibility on the part of our community members.