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		<title>Google Glass Might Pose the Biggest Challenge Public Education Has Seen Since Desegregation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 19:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Put aside for the moment that segregation of public schools in the United States is at its highest level since 1968; our country has backslid. During the more than three decades from 1954 (Brown Vs Board of Ed) and 1988 (peak desegregation in the US), achieving racial equality, or at least access to equal resources [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1163&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Common Core Assessment 20x More Expensive? What Can Edtech Do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 21:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The forthcoming Common Core (CC) Assessments are the next generation of standardized tests in the US, and will meet the testing frequency requirements of the most recent version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act also known as No Child Left Behind unless congress should act to change this, which is most unlikely. Forty six [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1158&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Year of Blended Learning One to One with Chromebooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on a year of Blended Learning with 1:1 Chromebooks Physics teachers have a unique privilege in most high school settings. Most of us work with students that have elected to take our academic course, and with the exception of a growing number of physics first programs, we teach older students. Consequently, we tend to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1154&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So Much Data Yet Still So Little Meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 01:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a mentor early in my career, also named Jack, who was a very well respected and well liked business owner. I worked at his company in the summers of my high school and college years as a delivery boy. Jack took me under his wing and would entertain my questions about the systems [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1151&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Tuesday, I released a Pixel into the Wild</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/on-tuesday-i-released-a-pixel-into-the-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my hands on a Chromebook Pixel this week and released it into the wild. For some background on what the Pixel is, check out this review. In sum, killer laptop with incredible resolution and touch screen interface. Students use Chromebooks in my science class. They check them out at the beginning of each [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1149&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Challenge of Managing Student Data in the Cloud</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/the-challenge-of-managing-student-data-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 06:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Call it what you want; the digital revolution, the cloud migration, one-to-one. The move to pervasive use of computing as the medium for education is underway. Schools around the world have moved beyond teacher websites, and are empowering students to both access curriculum and create products to demonstrate their learning entirely in the digital medium. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1145&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Common Core Assessment: An Inflection Point in Public Education or More of the Same?</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2013/02/10/common-core-assessment-an-inflection-point-in-public-education-or-more-of-the-same/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The assessments rooted in the Common Core standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics begin this year for 45.5 out of 50 states.  Minnesota is the 0.5 because they decided only to adopt the English Language Arts standards. Other than Texas and Alaska though, I bet you would have a hard time guessing that Nebraska [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1131&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blended Learning for High School &#8211; Montessori Style</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/blended-learning-for-high-school-montessori-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am obsessed with the work of Maria Montessori. The scientist observer mind that Montessori brought to the education of children, enabled her to construct social learning environments that would be the envy of any major corporate human resources department. Observing the Montessori pre-school my own children attended inspired me to restructure my high school [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1124&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Chromebook Matters..</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 06:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1998 I attended a mini conference at Sun Microsystems in Redwood City, California. I was there because a more seasoned teacher, Larry, who had taken me under his wing, told me it would be fun. We sat in a small conference hall with a bunch of engineers while a bespectacled, big-haired guy at the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1115&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What would Maria Montessori Say About Edtech?</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/what-would-maria-montessori-say-about-edtech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would Maria Montessori say about the use of the edtech available to us as we approach the year 2013? Heaven forbid any actual Montessori educators should read this post. My summaries of Montessori ideas and structures most certainly do not do justice to the wonderful body of work Maria Montessori left behind, nor do [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1112&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resources for Schools That Have Gone Google</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/resources-for-schools-that-have-gone-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 22:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many benefits for educational institutions that adopt Google Apps for Education. Many of the benefits are not visible right away, however. There are online resources and communities to help us find the hidden gems and guide us in best practices. In this post I will list all of the support structures that I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1110&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experienced Educators Riff on Heads Up Display Possibilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three weeks ago I had the privilege of sitting down for lunch with a group of experienced educators at the New England GAFE Summit who are all using Google Apps for Education in their practice. I posed a question to the group, “What would you do with Google Glass?” Let me back up. As a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1107&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forget About One to One, Let&#8217;s Talk Two to One</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/forget-about-one-to-one-lets-talk-two-to-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2012 02:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This summer I wrote a post about the Bay Area Maker Faire entitled, My Son Met His People at the Maker Faire. Today I met mine. I am presenting on my blended learning experience with Teacher Dashboard by Hapara at the New England Google Apps for Education Summit in Burlington, Massachussetts. A guy from New [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1104&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty Five Million Dollars for Blended Learning</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/twenty-five-million-dollars-for-blended-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I answered this question on Quora.. If given $1 Billion, what would be the best way to improve education in the U.S.? My answer, currently with 2 votes, ranks in about the middle of the pack (thank you Cameron and Ally!). It is interesting to note that of the 37 answers, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1096&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much Screen Time in a Blended Learning Class?</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/too-much-screen-time-in-a-blended-learning-class/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mid-July issue of Newsweek, linked below, was sitting on the coffee table at the Tahoe cabin of a friend of mine this past weekend. My interest was piqued by the cover image so, despite the fact that it was dated, I picked it up. The author of the feature article, Is the Web Driving [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1089&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Arne Duncan Said to Me Last Week</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/what-arne-duncan-said-to-me-last-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday of last week, several members of the US Department of Education kicked off their Back to School Bus Tour at the high school where I teach science in Redwood City, California. The visit was an edtech themed visit, and spotlighted a panel discussion that included edtech pop stars Sal Khan of the Khan [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1085&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blended Learning in the Traditional Classroom</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/blended-learning-in-the-traditional-classroom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not about the hardware. No laptop, tablet, lapdock, or webtop is going to change education by virtue of its screen resolution, haptic capabilities or processor speed. However, a proliferation of free, cloud-based, high quality, curated curricular materials (videos in particular) just might. Sal Khan is not the harbinger of a revolution in education because [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1082&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blended Learning at Harvard</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/blended-learning-at-harvard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvard Computer Science Professor and former Dean of Harvard College, Harry Lewis, has written an article in this month’s Harvard Magazine about his experience blending a preliminary computer science course entitled, Discrete Mathematics. While reading his first person account of this pilot course, I kept nodding my head in agreement as he recounted both the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1076&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So This is Democracy &#8211; Edcamp, the Unconference</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/08/18/so-this-is-democracy-edcamp-the-unconference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is easy for a middle-class, Washington outsider to become skeptical about our political system that, by some metrics, operates more like a polarized plutocracy than a socialistic democracy. However, in the same week, three members of a Russian girl punk band got two years in prison for playing protest songs in the face of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1074&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Learning Short Smells Like Soylent Green</title>
		<link>http://jackcwest.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/future-learning-short-smells-like-soyulent-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jackwest1972</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the purpose of this video from Good Magazine and University of Phoenix? Is it to encourage the community to get that, &#8220;One win?&#8221; I am as big of an edtechnophile as they come, but something about this video just doesn&#8217;t sit right with me. I felt the same way after seeing this that I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jackcwest.wordpress.com&#038;blog=24407992&#038;post=1067&#038;subd=jackcwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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