Marsha
Rogers
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Spring Park, MN 55384
952-471-1127
msrogers@mchsi.com
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April, 2004
April 11
With the high stakes that are at risk with the No Child Left Behind Law, there are some very disturbing things happening in education. As a result of the increased emphasis on math, reading and science, instruction in the arts, foreign languages, social studies, and geography are suffering. The Council for Basic Education has published online a study that has recently been completed and I highly recommend it as "light" reading for those of us who worry about the arts in education:
http://www.c-b-e.org/PDF/cbe_principal_Report.pdf
Apple has been encouraging the integration of technology into the classroom for about 30 years (almost the length some of us have been teaching) and their website is still one of the premier sites for teachers to use in developing lesson plans.
http://ali.apple.com/
Blogs are a way you can get your students to journal and to share thoughts on the Internet. It is a viable educational tool. All you need to know to get blogs started in your classroom is available the the following site.
http://www.techlearning.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18400984
For other educational links, please
visit my column at Backwash
The
Oldest Cyber-Geek I Know