C4T 1

My assignment for the C4T 1 was a teacher from Boston, MA. She is the director for Academic Technology. Her blog was about an article she had read out of the New York Times. This article had listed what they considered statistical data on technologies improvement of scores on test. Ms. Liz Davis did not agree with the article at all. She seemed disappointed in her blog that a professional paper such as The New York Times would even consider this statistical data when in fact the article considered only one school in one state. I agreed with Ms. Davis saying that statistical data could not truly be collaborated due to that single fact. You must take at multiple school in different states of all scoring levels on these exams to be considered a true statistical piece of data to be looked at by different school trying to decide whether or not to improve their technological advances for their own students.

Ms. Davis' second blog was about a book that she required all of faculty to read and then she presented a presentation to that same faculty on how she wanted to improve in her school. She called it the "Plus One Challenge". Basically she wants to to encourage the faculty to add one technology project, wants to keep up with peer schools, and will be meeting with each individual faculty member to see how and what they are doing and to offer a helping hand. I replied with my comment on how I honestly thing that this is an awesome idea and that I hope that it works for her.