Comments for Technologically Literate http://kpruitt.edublogs.org How do we get there? Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:56:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 Comment on Day 2: Comprehension Strategies by Angela Maiers http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/07/day-2-comprehension-strategies/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Angela Maiers Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:56:11 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/07/day-2-comprehension-strategies/#comment-104 Strategies that Work is a great resource for teaching the comprehension strategies. The authors also have a wonderful video set from Stenhouse publishing (stenhouse.com) that demonstrates strategy lessons in classrooms. For high school teachers, try a book from the same publisher-I Read It, But I Don't Get It! Great stuff! Strategies that Work is a great resource for teaching the comprehension strategies. The authors also have a wonderful video set from Stenhouse publishing (stenhouse.com) that demonstrates strategy lessons in classrooms. For high school teachers, try a book from the same publisher-I Read It, But I Don’t Get It! Great stuff!

]]> Comment on Amusing Ourselves to Death? by Kristin Hokanson http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/31/amusing-ourselves-to-death/comment-page-1/#comment-102 Kristin Hokanson Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:43:52 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/31/amusing-ourselves-to-death/#comment-102 Ken-- I went lid down this weekend too...in the Poconos where not even my mobile web connected...refreshing, but hard to catch up Have a good year Ken–
I went lid down this weekend too…in the Poconos where not even my mobile web connected…refreshing, but hard to catch up
Have a good year

]]> Comment on Call for Data by Applied Technology Online http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/07/21/call-for-data/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Applied Technology Online Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:27:17 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/07/21/call-for-data/#comment-101 <strong>Three Questions from Call for Data...</strong> Here are three questions from a post at Call for Data. What are the 21st century skills we want our teachers to model? This is a difficult question for me to answer. I could point to ISTE standards for technology for teachers and students. I wonder if ... Three Questions from Call for Data…

Here are three questions from a post at Call for Data.
What are the 21st century skills we want our teachers to model?
This is a difficult question for me to answer. I could point to ISTE standards for technology for teachers and students. I wonder if …

]]> Comment on What Does Bad PD Look Like? by pattyoflynn http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/15/what-does-bad-pd-look-like/comment-page-1/#comment-100 pattyoflynn Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:14:30 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/15/what-does-bad-pd-look-like/#comment-100 I can relate, I just went through a rather painful error-filled technology PD experience myself (not through my district though). I'd like to speak in particular about #4 in your post. I have worked with fantastic manufacturer reps but usually they have limitations because they are not actually teaching and using this stuff in the classroom. I think the extended teachers-teaching-teachers model usually works much better, and by extended I mean that it isn't a one-shot 30 minute presentation. The techie teachers may be good to go after one session but many will require followups. And even if everyone on staff picked up how to set up their gradebooks, disaster is bound to strike the first time that grades need to be uploaded for report cards. Follow-ups are KEY! I can relate, I just went through a rather painful error-filled technology PD experience myself (not through my district though).

I’d like to speak in particular about #4 in your post. I have worked with fantastic manufacturer reps but usually they have limitations because they are not actually teaching and using this stuff in the classroom. I think the extended teachers-teaching-teachers model usually works much better, and by extended I mean that it isn’t a one-shot 30 minute presentation. The techie teachers may be good to go after one session but many will require followups. And even if everyone on staff picked up how to set up their gradebooks, disaster is bound to strike the first time that grades need to be uploaded for report cards. Follow-ups are KEY!

]]> Comment on What Does Bad PD Look Like? by bcarrera http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/15/what-does-bad-pd-look-like/comment-page-1/#comment-99 bcarrera Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:48:22 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/15/what-does-bad-pd-look-like/#comment-99 Bad PD to me is too much talking and not enough hands on. We had someone come and demonstrate an computer grade book-attendance book. They ran through a 30 minute presentation showing us all the bells and buzzers, and then the principal told us all to go out there and use it. Later that day, not a single person could figure out how to even enter kids names and grades. But we got PDed. Bad PD to me is too much talking and not enough hands on. We had someone come and demonstrate an computer grade book-attendance book. They ran through a 30 minute presentation showing us all the bells and buzzers, and then the principal told us all to go out there and use it. Later that day, not a single person could figure out how to even enter kids names and grades. But we got PDed.

]]> Comment on Call for Data by Not So Distant Future » Beginning anew again http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/07/21/call-for-data/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Not So Distant Future » Beginning anew again Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:15:30 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/07/21/call-for-data/#comment-98 [...] of staff development,  I thought it’d be a good time to look back at Ken Pruitt’s three questions for school districts, which Scott McLeod highlighted on his blog in [...] [...] of staff development,  I thought it’d be a good time to look back at Ken Pruitt’s three questions for school districts, which Scott McLeod highlighted on his blog in [...]

]]> Comment on 8 Random Facts by kpruitt http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/8-random-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-97 kpruitt Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:14:29 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/8-random-facts/#comment-97 My wife might read this. I choose not to answer any relationship questions :) I have a comm degree, I have a secondary education degree, I am working on the tech integration masters and if I had money to burn the first two degrees left 9 credits short of an English degree. All that from a kid who hates school and used to spend more time in the nurse's office than the classroom. Go fig?? My wife might read this. I choose not to answer any relationship questions :)

I have a comm degree, I have a secondary education degree, I am working on the tech integration masters and if I had money to burn the first two degrees left 9 credits short of an English degree.

All that from a kid who hates school and used to spend more time in the nurse’s office than the classroom. Go fig??

]]> Comment on 8 Random Facts by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/8-random-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Tue, 07 Aug 2007 01:58:45 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/8-random-facts/#comment-96 Used like in a good way? Or used like I didn't know you well enough to be tagging you so soon in the relationship? hehehe So what are the degrees in? Used like in a good way? Or used like I didn’t know you well enough to be tagging you so soon in the relationship? hehehe

So what are the degrees in?

]]> Comment on 8 Random Facts by Jane Nicholls http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/8-random-facts/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Jane Nicholls Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:05:58 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/8-random-facts/#comment-95 Richard Gere? Really? Wow, the things you learn on blogs... I'm quite enjoying this meme, everyone has something strange and interesting to share, and a few guilty secrets :) Thanks for sharing Richard Gere? Really? Wow, the things you learn on blogs… I’m quite enjoying this meme, everyone has something strange and interesting to share, and a few guilty secrets :)
Thanks for sharing

]]> Comment on 32 Hours of Workshop by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/32-hours-of-workshop/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:15:31 +0000 http://kpruitt.edublogs.org/2007/08/06/32-hours-of-workshop/#comment-94 tag. You are it. 8 random facts meme. tag. You are it. 8 random facts meme.

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