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The philosophy in my middle school where i serve as the menahel , is "everything is a learning opportunity". So when it comes to technology and specifically ipads the approach is to teach and to show students the potential of how this field can help them as students. My school has not yet decided to invest in ipads, yet as they become more and more popular both in society and in the knapsacks of our students it is incumbent on the school to teach the students how they can be used in the… Continue

The philosophy in my middle school where i serve as the menahel , is "everything is a learning opportunity". So when it comes to technology and specifically ipads the approach is to teach and to show students the potential of how this field can help them as students. My school has not yet decided to invest in ipads, yet as they become more and more popular both in society and in the knapsacks of our students it is incumbent on the school to teach the students how they can be used in the… Continue

As I mentioned in earlier blogs, my school does not yet have an Ed-tech teacher or an on-site IT person so we are relatively restrained by how much technology and for sure modern technology can be going on. So for this blog on social networking I am not going to focus on what my school is or is not doing within the world of social networking rather I will focus and open up for discussion a question raised in chapter #5 in Web 2.0 how-to for educators. Namely, do teachers believe that students… Continue

My previous blogs have described sample lessons of teachers in my school using latest technology. The following is an update on the technology usage in my school. We currently do not have an educational technology teacher or an onsite IT person. Yet the good news is we do have a computer lab and smart boards in each classroom. Therefore, it is not shocking that the way in which most teachers are using computers would be considered adequate at best. A few teachers, not necessarily only “young”… Continue