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Over the past few years of activity on the ETD forum, we’ve read many examples of how ICT in education projects have improved and innovated practice, making access to education more modern and accessable. At the same time much criticism has been focused on projects that, despite best intentions, focus first on hardware provision without sufficient consideration of how it will be used to improve learning, effectively wasting the investment.

Many of us have witnessed firsthand this kind of wasted investment—i.e., underutilization of equipment—but how many of us are still around to see the long-term consequences of high-input ICT projects, such as those designed to give every child access to computers, either through large computing labs, mobile laptop stations, or one to one computing?

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Tuesday was the first day of class in two weeks for some Catholic students in the Philadelphia area. The Association of Catholic Teachers Local 1776,  negotiated for several months, went on a two-week strike and finally reached an agreement on Sunday night.

With 17 schools and 16,500 students in the area, the strike affected a large part of the high school population.

Our teachers could not be happier to head back into the classrooms, Rita Schwartz said, union president. We have been waiting a long time for this day, and we are relieved that its finally here. N

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“When Am I Ever Going to Use This Math?”

If I’ve heard this question once, I’ve heard it literally hundreds of times during my teaching and tutoring careers. And you know what? This is a good question. The problem is: We don’t often have an answer that satisfies.

Many times we don’t actually know how a student might end up using their math, simply because we can’t tell the future. Sometimes the way the student may use the math is more sophisticated to explain to them than the math itself. Sometimes the topic is merely a building block for a later topic that they will use. This is d

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One of our forthcoming books recently popped up on ebay.  In mid-July, I shipped advance copies of Crowe on the Banjo: The Music Life of J.D. Crowe (September 2011) to a variety of trade magazines, music magazines, Kentucky publications, and freelance writers. One of  those recipients is selling it, or passed it along to someone else who is selling it. 

I understand that unsolicited review copies are often traded for store credit or sold. However, its frustrating when it happens before publication.

The last time this happened (different book, different author), the author purchased the advance copy for his own collection. Thats

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New to Ross Sheppard this year is the exciting drumline class. Support our sports teams, learn how to read music, earn credits and have a blast! Come to Room 231 on Monday, September 5^th at 3:30 to learn how to join.