Technology for Learning

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Mr. Balcom, a thoughtful grade four teacher, wrote a great post recently about the history of parent involvement in elementary schools. He spoke of the importance of communicating with parents, and proposed a k.n.o.w.l.e.d.g.e. approach to communicating with parents.
Without saying so, what he addressed was the importance of understanding the context that each [...]

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Are you ready to participate in something different online? Normally this work would be done in a face to face session with very structured facilitation. In the IT world, we call it “gathering user requirements”. In this case it’s about understanding how parents, staff and trustees will want to use a K-12 Parent Portal.
One way [...]

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