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Booth # 1923.
Let us show you how to use the latest technology to teach World Languages in your School.
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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LATEST SCHOOLS TO INSTALL A SANAKO LANGUAGE LAB
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East River High School
Orlando, FL
C. E. King High School
Houston, TX
Bradford Area High School
Bradford, PA
McLain Magnet High School for Science
Tulsa, OK
Oakton Community College
Skokie, IL
Marlborough School
Los Angeles, CA
Ranchview High School
Irving, TX
Fayette County School
Lexington, KY
Barbara Bush Middle School
Irving, TX
East Greenwich High School
East Greenwich, RI
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Greetings!
Tandberg Educational is pleased to announce the release of our new website. Our new
site has been redesigned with a fresh new look and has been updated
with information about our latest products and services. Our new site will also provide support and information that we hope will answer your most common questions. Please click on "Website" and take a few moments to explore!
Also new this month, see two of our educational videos on YouTube. "Click Here" to view "Foran High School and the Sanako Study 1200" or "Click Here" to view "How Bunker Hill Community College uses Sanako Study 1200.
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Is Technology Integrated into our Curriculum?
By Linda Graffitti
The traditional role of a
student was to play one role that of a passive recipient of information. With the advent of the web 2.0 technology this
role should no longer exist. Students
using web 2.0 technologies can be collaborating using multiple products,
reaching multiple audiences with the help of multiple media. The outcome of the collaboration can be in the form of a
podcast, video, web page or slide presentation all requiring multiple
iterations to complete. But is that what
we are finding in today's classroom?
Andy Carvin from National Public
Radio doesn't think so. In his video of
May 21,2007 he says, "And so I think schools today and teachers today feel so
many pressures from other forces, whether its educational requirements to teach
and prepare students for certain standardized tests; whether its using internet
filtering to protect students from online safety concerns (but doing it in such
a way that teachers don't have the ability to override those filters) - it kind
of created a situation in which the internet is being used as one big reference
tool. If students need to know something
they look it up and go back to work, and it is not seen as a tool for
innovation and collaboration."
We can walk into almost any
school in the US
today and find laptops and desk tops, some rooms with interactive white boards,
students carrying cell phones and iPods.
Technology is everywhere. Yet
most schools require students to put their cell phones and iPods away in their
lockers to keep them from becoming a distraction. Laptops sitting in carts idle in the
hallways. Interactive white boards being used as if they were nothing more than
chalk boards. We continue to educate for
a world that no longer exists.
The International Society
for Technology in Education "ISTE" recommends the following Technology
Standards and Performance Indicators for Students:
- Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking,
construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using
technology.
- Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work
collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning
and contribute to the learning of others.
- Research and Information Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather,
evaluate, and use information.
- Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making: Students use critical thinking skills to plan
and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed
decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.
- Digital Citizenship: Students
understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and
practice legal and ethical behavior.
- Technology Operations and Concepts: Students demonstrate a sound understanding of
technology concepts, systems, and operations.
How do we begin to
implement these technology standards?
With a lot of hard work! The goal needs to be to embed the technology into
the classroom seamlessly, rather than drawing attention to it. We need to take
the technology out of the lockers and off the laptop carts and put it into the
hands of the students. We of course
can't leave them in this new virtual environment alone, this might lead to
misbehavior, teachers need to model appropriate behavior online, just as they
do in the physical classroom.
Today's students are the
most media and technologically savvy generation there has ever been. They deserve a pedagogical approach to match.
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U.S. Dept. of Education Opens 'Race to the Top' Competition
- States need to document their past success.
- Outline their plans to extend
their reforms by using college- and career-ready standards and
assessments.
- Build a workforce of highly effective educators.
- Create educational data systems to support student achievement.
- Turn around their lowest-performing schools.
FOR MORE INFORMATION,
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Did you know that more than 10% of Newsweek's "America's Top Public High Schools" has a SANAKO Language Lab.
A Language Lab is still the
BEST instructional tool available for language learning.
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