Classroom technology, innovation and the block plan

Classroom technology can be a powerful tool for education — but only when it’s used properly…The trouble is that technology has developed so quickly that most education systems haven’t been able to keep up, Michael Fullan told a crowd at the University of Oklahoma. NewsOK.com reported something the ATS team has known for quite a …

Noam Chomsky – The Purpose of Education

What is the difference between education and indoctrination? This debate rages back hundreds, thousands, of years, and will rage thousands more into the future. Every major philosopher has had one answer or another, from Plato to Locke, Hegel and Rousseau to Dewey. Continuing in that venerable tradition, linguist, political activist, and academic generalist extraordinaire Noam …

Landsat 8 Launched February 11th 2013. Continuing a 40 year tradition of satelite imagery.

On Feb. 11th 2013, NASA launched its eighth Earth-observation satellite as part of the Landsat Data Continuity Mission. Landsat 8 will join two other Landsat satellites still in orbit, although one of those was recently decommissioned (Landsat 5).  The satellite is in a healthy orbit and NASA is receiving its telemetry,  however no acquired images …

Common teaching challenges and how technology can help address them

At the end of CC’s half-block winter session, we held a winter conference where various people around campus presented on topics related to the strategic planning process we are currently working through. Steve Lawson, our humanities librarian, and I ran a session titled “The CC Classroom: Using Technology to Improve Teaching and Learning.” We centered …

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