One of the great benefits of working with students and teachers is that I am constantly learning new and better ways to utilize technology.  Rarely a day goes by when I don’t pick up at least one nugget of wisdom, and these practical tips/techniques really deserved to be shared with a wider audience.  That said, [...]

Last week marked the start of the new school year and the beginning of our 1:1 Tablet PC initiative.  All 7th, 9th, and 10 grade students (approximately 450 in total) greeted the first day of classes with a Lenovo X61 Tablet and, all things considered, the program got off to a pretty smooth start.  Now [...]

This post, the final of a three-part series, will focus on one of the most powerful teaching-learning tools at our disposal: DyKnow.  Although technically DyKnow isn’t new (we’ve been piloting it for the past two years), with our 1:1 initiative underway we can finally leverage its full potential in the classroom.  For those unfamiliar with [...]