As my seven-year-old son prepares for his first protest (against a proposed new Walmart in Burbank; he is very vehement about his position; “What if they put Target out of business?”) I think about my own corporate involvement (I use Burst, a Wireless Generation product, in my class). [...]
Giving tests–the California Standards Test, DIBELS, Woodcock-Johnson NU–all week to my special ed students has made me wonder on more than one occasion just what I’m trying to prove. Okay, I’m a little worn down. By the end of next week I will have given the End of Year (EOY) [...]
Read this thoughtful post on The Pitfalls of Personalization. As an mClass/Wireless Generation newbie I am interested where this technology will take us. On the one hand, I am fretful: will my creativity/judgement be stifled? Will WG be used to judge me ala VAM? On the other hand, [...]
So watch out for Wireless Generation, a computerized assessment, grouping, and instruction environment playing in your neighborhood school soon. I had been trying to bring myself up to speed on its components so I can implement it in my RSP class when a support superwoman informed me via email that she [...]
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