Technology for Learning

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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Thanks to Frank Krasicki’s comment I have added an additional parent voice to describe what parents would look for in a K-12 Parent Portal. The literature describes a changing parent role as children move through grade levels, so a parent voice for each of the elementary, middle, and high school levels is appropriate.
So here is [...]

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By now I hope you have had a chance to follow the postings about a K-12 Parent Portal. In that post you will find the background and links to each of the stakeholder posts. I’m asking for help in building rich descriptions of the different stakeholders – what they would like to see in a [...]

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This post is the third in a series of posts exploring the requirements for a K-12 Parent Portal. I’m trying to build a composite persona for each of the stakeholders in a K-12 Parent Portal (see What would you do in a K-12 Parent Portal? for background information on this initiative and links to each [...]

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This post is the second in a series of posts exploring the requirements for a K-12 Parent Portal. I’m trying to build a composite persona for each of the stakeholders in a K-12 Parent Portal (see What would you do in a K-12 Parent Portal? for background information on this initiative and links to each [...]

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How tough is it to get it right? 21st Century Learning and Teaching, that is. Over the last few days I have read several different bloggers write about a similar aspect of teaching and learning in this new world but with decidedly varying viewpoints. A convergence of sorts.
Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior VP at [...]

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I recently participated in a forum on IT Workforce Planning. The statistics are critical: enrolments in computer science are declining while demands for technical staff are growing. The unemployment rate for Canadian IT workers in 2006 was 0.8%. And with the baby boomer bubble about to burst into retirement, the supply and demand won’t change [...]

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I’m trying to build a composite persona for each of the stakeholders in a K-12 Parent Portal (see What would you do in a K-12 Parent Portal? for background information on this initiative and links to each of the matching posts as they are available). This is a way to describe their requirements through stories. [...]

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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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