Gwynn Moore & Shannon Wentworth have teamed up with the AEA to offer the Technology Integration Caucus (Flyer). Excerpt from flyer below.

Course Title: Creating Successful Learning Environments for the Self-Controlled Classroom

Instructor: Jenna Harp

Description: Instructing educators to effectively use the Self-Controlled Classroom Model in their classroom. “The vision of the Self- Control Classroom Model is to prevent disruptive, delinquent, and violent behavior, and to encourage accountability, achievement, integrity, and duty to others through adult/youth interaction, emphasizing trust, caring, and respectful relationships, and the use of effective, expert instruction.”

Course Schedule
Dates: 6/9/09- 7/23/09

Times: Online blog discussions and 1 page self-reflections/chapter for 7.0 hours (1 hour every Tuesday starting June 9th and ending July 21st. Seminar for 30 minutes Thursday, July 23rd.) Times of the online discussions: TBA

Location: online blog/seminar at Boston K-8

NOTES: Presentation

This evening, Aaron Berthold and I presented to the Technology Steering Committee. Our focus was illustrating where netbooks fit in to education and how the netbooks are being used. Aaron spoke about from macroscopic perspective and I presented from the microscopic perspective of how teachers are using netbooks.

The presentation I created follows closely Robert Marzano meta-research for classroom strategies that have the greatest impact on student achievement. Presentation (ppt) The presentation contains links to many useful resources that are free.

This video below was created by Tom Fox and clearly demonstrates the benefits of using 1 to 1 computing with blogging to foster greater literacy among students. Watching the video, you’ll notice that several of the strategies that Marzano writes about are mentioned; summarizing & notetaking, reinforcing effort & providing recognition, and providing feedback.