Mark Edwards - former Virginia Superintendent - Henric Co. now
Largest single district laptop initiative
Success had to do with teachers and their ATTITUDE.
National Education Technology Plan
Technology can blend the art and science of teaching.
$1/day/student
The cost of giving each student a bottle of water a day is what it costs to do 1:1
Malcom Gladwell - The Tipping Point - if enough of those lights come on - it will become a standard.
The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
65,000..............6 million
US....................China
Science finalists
Are you born smart or do you get smart? You get smart!
Requires superintendent commitment, political commitment, grade level/department chair committment
Mooresville
Sept 2007 - 400 laptops
Total development Sept 2009 - 6000 laptops
http://www.nettrekker.com/
The educational search engine
Online formative assessments for prescriptive intervention with ontime relative data.
1 comment:
Mark Edwards is one of the worst leaders out there. He got lucky in Henrico. Considering he's been pushed out of every job he's ever had that speaks loads more.
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