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Comment on Learning through Publishing: iBooks by Textbook of the future » Adam Seldis

Textbook of the future » Adam Seldis — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 06:59:28 +0000

[...] are some High School teachers who have already started this process, such as Jessica Hale in Korea. Looking on iBooks it appears some universities are at the forefront of publishing [...]

Comment on Learning through Publishing: iBooks by Adam Seldis

Adam Seldis — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 02:01:37 +0000

Hi Jessica. I really enjoyed reading about the iBooks project. Have you carried on with it? I’m hoping to do something similar with my IB Eco class as part of my course 5 Coetail @YIS course. I’m curious – did you give the students any more detailed assessment criteria than on the project info sheet on your blog? Is there somewhere I could access the final iBook? I’d love to see what your students came up with.

Comment on Learning through Publishing: iBooks by Philip McIntosh

Philip McIntosh — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:58:55 +0000

I am a Mac fan also, but since iBooks depends on Lion on a Mac, I see it as problematic for wider adoption in the classroom.

Comment on Managing the 1 to 1 Environment by Wishes Do Come True | Josee's Blog

Wishes Do Come True | Josee's Blog — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:27:36 +0000

[...] the most part, teachers like Jessica know to give students the task first, and then given access to the laptops. If further instructions are [...]

Comment on Managing the 1 to 1 Environment by Jennifer James

Jennifer James — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:40:50 +0000

Hi Jessica,
Thanks for the suggestions in this blog. Next year, as SFHS rolls out the 1:1 Laptop Initiative, I’m trying to find as many best practices as I can, from those who’ve actually tried them. In reading your “start of class” section, I got the idea that I would really like to start and end my class with no computers- just a 10/15 minute set where we actually “come back to reality”- what did our peers think, learn, experience and how does this apply in the face to face world? So, thank-you for that idea!
Secondly, I’m struck how much self-discipline is going to be a 21st Century skill; not just for students by everyone. It used to be that the natural processes of life kept you more focused simply because you didn’t have access to multiple things at one time- your car didn’t have wifi, play videos, or ask you to input GPS coordinates as you drove. Now, we are finding that people are going to have to learn to discipline themselves NOT to do these things because it’s a matter of life or death (http://www.fcc.gov/guides/texting-while-driving).

Comment on Flipping the Economics Classroom by Evaluating Reverse Instruction – Mrs. Hale in Seoul

Evaluating Reverse Instruction – Mrs. Hale in Seoul — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:00:14 +0000

[...] of economics course, I took a self-paced flipped approach. You can read the full evaluation here. While I do not think that the full flipped approach is conducive to my classroom, there were some [...]

Comment on ADE Asia Institute 2011 by End of the School Year Reflections – Mrs. Hale in Seoul

End of the School Year Reflections – Mrs. Hale in Seoul — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:35:18 +0000

[...] tails off, on the front lines, and often we are more critical of ourselves than anyone else. The ADE institute in Ho Chi Min was a great time to connect with colleagues, learn, and be affirmed. Apple really [...]

Comment on The ‘Bully’ in Cyberbulling by Creating Responsible Digital Citizens » Life Long Learning

Creating Responsible Digital Citizens » Life Long Learning — Sun, 29 May 2011 06:44:21 +0000

[...] I have been consistently mentioning, my high school is moving to a 1-2-1 program next year. Jessica Hale, a fellow cohort member and my Social Studies colleague, and I decided to work together to create a [...]

Wayne Hodgkinson — Tue, 24 May 2011 15:24:10 +0000

Hi Jessica

I would love to get a legal opinion on the photocopying of textbooks. The reason I say this is that we are a tablet school with a 1:1 program. When we started we had a lot of paper copies of textbooks. We got a legal opinion and were told that as long as we the same number (or more) of paper copies as students in “the back room”, then we could scan and give each student a digital copy. We had paid for x copies of the text and so could use this number of copies via digital media.

My thought is that this probably applies to photocopying texts as well. If you have 25 books in “the back room”, you can probably photocopy one 25 times, and give I copy to each kid, so each kids can write / annotate theirs. You have not exceeded the number of simultaneous uses that you have paid for. We always re-issue texts each year, so as long as we are not teaching with the previous year’s copies, we can probably do the same thing each year.

I would love to get a legal opinion to see how correct this train of thought is, but am certain we will never get it from the publishing companies.

Comment on Ten Principles of Economics Project by Kim Cofino

Kim Cofino — Mon, 02 May 2011 10:51:15 +0000

Fantastic! Love the student samples! So glad to see you were not only able to implement the unit, but also finish it in time to share some samples with us. What did the students think? Did the format work for them? Were they engaged with the idea? Do you think they thought about the concepts at a deeper level? If you did the unit again, would you change anything?