Article II: The New Learning Standards

Thank you to everyone who posted thus far! If you read through the responses, several of us maintained that we need to take risks with our instruction to let students have access to technology at school. However, there is a certain level of fear out there about how exactly to use these new tools.

Just to let everyone know, I have been attending some lunch classes on technology offered through BISD. The ITS are amazing! I have learned so much this year about using these tools in my job as a principal. I can say though, sometimes you just have to get out there and mess with the tools to get comfortable. I would encourage ALL OF YOU to get your students in the labs and try something new. (Just this past week, I learned how to Twitter.)

Article II in the VI document presents a discussion on New Learning Standards. These standards should be clear, deal with multiple intelligences and be flexible enough to expand at the local level (to name a few).

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This week's question...

How would you write these new learning standards in a way that would incorporate a future that we may not be able to imagine yet? Information is multiplying at an exponential rate, how do we keep up?

Keep up the postings!!! Way to go BES!