If you attended parent teacher conferences one evening last week we appreciate your attendance. Though participation in conferences continues to decline it continues to serve as a good opportunity for parents and educators to network and unify in the education of students. Participation at our fall conferences was 71%. Our parent teacher conferences are very traditional at HDHS. If you have suggestion about improving our conferences please let me know. This would include how to allow teachers to have supper while not keeping parents waiting. As the traditional composition of something like parent teacher conferences develops and changes with technology like Power School so will traditional high school classrooms.
What would a google school look like? Google already has search engines, software, and features that are beyond comprehension. And the interesting thing is that most all of their services are free. Some people say Google may own the world someday because of being so involved in our daily lives in a variety of ways. Furthermore, I have heard that google is close to have a google identify for people. This would mean that everything a person has done would be documented by google. Scary but probably not too far away.
Have you every "googled" yourself on the internet? Try it and see what comes up. Is it things you would want your family to see? Would you want your employer to google you? Would your colleagues be impressed with what they find on the internet about you?
With all the modern technology out there what would a google school look like? I would suspect that it would have a computer for every student and teacher. It would probably have interactive whiteboards for presentations. Projectors may be available for other presentation. Simulation software would be readily available to students. The teacher would not often be seen lecturing but rather using the available technologies to guide students to learning. It is hard telling what a google school would actually look like but the unknown may not be that far away. This site reveals what Apple's idea of a future classroom may look like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcXEznPXj8k.
Furthermore, you can see the continued progress of the Hampton-Dumont Technology Committee at the following wiki www.hdtechcommittee.wikispaces.com.
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