Mission Statement of Our PD Committee:

"To coordinate and promote professional development opportunities based on direction from the superintendent and professional staff." (May, 2006)

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Laptop Schools in the States


I find myself teaching mathematics in a laptop-enabled lab....and more and more teachers are carrying/using portable notebook computers. There was an article in the New York Times last Friday that has stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest in "the blogosphere". In particular, a gentleman named David Warlick (who writes a blog called 2 cents worth) has weighed in on the discussion, and the comments left on the post of his blog are really worth reading. Check out the post and comments here.
***Sorry for the late addition, but the idea here (and why I posted this on a PD blog) is either Warlick's or someone commenting, that in a lot of cases, PD is a 'professional responsibility' and the teachers in New York encouraging their districts to 'go back to how it used to be' maybe aren't being terribly realistic (or responsible)? My words...no one else's....

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