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To: TADSLOS; Think free or die

Was there any indication of the iPad being connected to Common Core curriculum in either of your situations?

Are you aware that one of the purposes of using the iPad for common core curriculum is to track the body language using the video cam?

NSA related?


78 posted on 06/25/2013 1:32:26 PM PDT by Whenifhow
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To: Whenifhow
Yes, Common Core was infused in the technology. My wife's lesson plans were built using a standardized database of sequential lessons to pull from based on a planned schedule of topics synchronized with related subject matter being taught in other classrooms at the school. It had to match up and it had to be planned in sequence. The teachers had zero flexibility in terms of what they planned for. Teaching it was a different matter because reality of teaching kids with widely different abililities has a pesky way of trumping the unicorn dreams of central planners.

So the planning process that teachers had to spend time on became so much eyewash. More often than not, my wife reverted back to hard copy worksheets and dry erase board drills to educate kids. She locked the iPads in the storage cart at the beginning of each period and only released them to individual kids who completed their work to her satisfaction AND they could only work with an app that reinforced her lesson.

Needless to say, she wasn't the most popular teacher in school, but her classroom was quiet and orderly, not a madhouse like so many others.

81 posted on 06/25/2013 2:00:28 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Whenifhow
"Was there any indication of the iPad being connected to Common Core curriculum in either of your situations?"

We're heading toward Common Core, but it hasn't really arrived yet. There is too much organizational mish-mash to sort at at the district level. I also don't see any effort to watch what the kids are doing using the devices. Nobody has time for that in a school setting. If the NSA wants to watch their body language, they are in for a rude awakening with some of these kids, especially those in the inner city.

84 posted on 06/25/2013 3:05:34 PM PDT by Think free or die
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