Technology for Learning

Dr. Debbie Pushor from the University of Saskatchewan has launched a new website at www.debbiepushor.com creating a “place and voice for parents”. The site has a wide range of resources and well reflects her commitment to the importance of parents in every child’s learning.
Check it out!

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I’m at a great day with Ewan McIntosh in Moose Jaw and educators from Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Moose Jaw. At our table discussion about a key challenge facing our district we came up with the following:
Challenge:  How do you avoid having teachers with one year of experience 29 times? In other words, how do we shake [...]

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What will it take to effect change in schools? Dr. John Lundt suggests we need to leave them – the schools that is. In a keynote presentation he told the audience of district leaders we should reconsider the concept of school as a place. The notion of a physical building is beyond [...]

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Another leg of my journey to developing a K-12 Parent Portal is completed. The first compilation of “What would you do in a K-12 Parent Portal?” is now posted on the Parent 2.0 wiki. It is a work in progress, as I continue to receive feedback from the blog postings [...]

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The initial posts for each of the players in the story of developing a K-12 Parent Portal are complete. The introductory post is here.
The posts for each of the players are here:
Parent – Sally Barrett ,click here for post about Sally
Parent – George Wangari, click here for a post about George
Parent – Alicia Delmorales, click [...]

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As I’ve built the story-telling framework to support the design of a K-12 Parent Portal, I’ve had support from several blogging forums whose participants have added to the voices.
This post introduces the principal voice to this story. Do you work with someone like Genevieve? Are you Genevieve? Please help bring understanding to this work by [...]

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What would you do in a K-12 Parent Portal? begins a series of posts that are attempting to describe the proposed content of an interactive web site through the eyes of each of the stakeholders. I want to use their stories to gain an understanding rather than the traditional description of functionality. There are [...]

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