Here is an outstanding blog written by Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, who is a doctoral student and adjunct instructor of educational technology at the College of William and Mary.
This blog will be used to explore, exchange, and create ideas around 21st century collaborative learning and virtual learning communities and how these communities can be used to help teachers prepare their students for success in the 21st century.
This is outstanding!! From Utah:
Jerry Mangus’ textbook-less teaching has dazzled the U.S. Department of Education.Mangus, who teaches fifth- and sixth-grade math at Plymouth Elementary, uses only computers to teach fractions and other numerical concepts to kids. He’s built computer labs in his school, each of his students has his or her own machine, and their test scores have leaped.
For his efforts, the federal education department on Wednesday bestowed Mangus with its No Child Left Behind Act American Star of Teaching Award. The award, for which the department received some 2,000 applicants, goes to one teacher in every state and Washington, D.C.
“He’s someone who has gone far and above,” said Carolyn Snowbarger, director of the department’s Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative, who presented the award.
