Technology In The Classroom: A Student-Centered Approach
In traditional classroom settings, teachers lecture while their students sit passively listening and watching, perhaps one student at a time might be called upon to reflect or answer a question. Today, this is known as a "teacher-centered" approach to learning. This typically occurs when there is no use of technology in the classroom. In contrast, a "student-centered" approach shifts the focus of activity from the [...]
Donated equipment – maybe your school should pass
Last summer, a well-intentioned parent at an area school proposed a sizable donation. It was, he claimed, a very valuable piece of his company's technology infrastructure: A Storage Area Network, referred to hereafter as “SAN". Now for those readers that don’t know what a SAN is, or are wondering now why they don’t have one, it is a large (often very large) set of [...]