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Edtech for Edleaders: Computer Rooms Today

While computer rooms have largely fallen out of favor, they continue to be maintained in many schools. As more diverse computing devices have entered the educational market and Internet-only notebooks became more popular, computer rooms have become more important for providing capacity for specialized purposes that require sophisticated software that must be installed on devices Read More

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Edtech for Edleaders: What We Want in IT Systems

When describing the IT systems they build and manage, IT professionals use three words to describe their systems (or at least they try to build systems that can be described with these three): Reliable systems are available whenever users need them. Internet services providers, web hosting companies, and similar network vendors will describe their “up Read More

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What Larry Cuban Said About Technology is (Discouragingly) Still Accurate

The computer technologies introduced to schools in the last quarter of the 20th century were part of a long parade of electronic information technologies that were introduced first into the popular culture and then into education throughout the 20th century. In 1986, Larry Cuban, a professor of education at Stanford University, reviewed the history of Read More

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Edtech for Edleaders: Whom to Hire- CIO

It is only recently that educational organizations have adopted the practice of using “c-level” title for those in management positions. Chief financial officers (CFO) manage the business operations of schools and chief academic officers (CAO) are responsible for all aspects of teaching and learning within schools; individuals in these roles report to the chief executive Read More

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Edtech for Edleaders: Capacity of Computing Devices

Teaching and learning requires students access and consume information, analyze and manipulate it, and create and disseminate it. Some educationally relevant information tasks, such as consuming text-based web sites (e.g. Wikipedia) and composing text (e.g. writing research papers) require little computing capacity; the rate of data creation is a small, the necessary processing power is Read More

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The Problem with Data

Data is  atopic that has been addressed on this blog previously: Being Data Driven is Nothing to Brag About Data versus Evidence If you read those posts, it is going to become clear that I am not a fan of the fascination educators have developed for data. It can be a part of how we Read More