I have recorded my presentation from the Midwest Educational Technology Conference as a podcast. The presentation is titled Student Technology Leadership Program: How Students Can Lead a School to 21st Century Learning and discusses the MICDS Student Technology Group (StuTech). If you wish to hear me stumble through my slides, you can watch it here (QuickTime Movie, H.264/AAC, bandwidth/hosting courtesy MICDS/StuTech).
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This is a crosspost from the Students 2.0 blog. You may comment on the original post there.
If students or teachers fear an inability to support technology used in classrooms this can become a major hindrance to adoption of technology in teaching and learning. Tech-savvy students, however, can help alleviate these fears.
This is the first of a series of posts about my school’s Student Technology Group, also known as StuTech. The idea for the group came from a meeting in March of 2006 during the ISACS accreditation process with the hope of taking advantage of student resources we had available. StuTech currently provides support for over 300 student laptops on campus (students may bring any computer they choose and no staff support is provided) and works closely with teachers to support their use of curricular technology and tech-intensive projects.
Continue reading ‘Student Technology Leadership: Collaborative Learning’
