[Marketing] Laptop computers in K-12 (sic.) education

[John Tierney]

Thanks Ron-I will take a look.

Here is a link to a local high school here in the Detroit area that was on the State list
of under performing schools and could have been taken over or shut down. This
spurred the Principal to take action to save his school which has a large population
of economically challenged residents.

Principal Greg Green made an innovative move and embraced the Flipped Model
and has become a pioneer in the field.

Clintondale High School-Michigan
http://www.flippedhighschool.com/

I have had the chance to meet and speak with Greg Green
and I am a big supporter of this approach.

Best!
John Tierney

> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 07:04:59 -0500
> Subject: Laptop computers in K-12 (sic.) education
> From: docdtv at gmail.com
> To: marketing at lists.sugarlabs.org
> CC: jtis4stx at hotmail.com
> 
> On 1/29/13, John Tierney <jtis4stx at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> 
> LTNS John - I've long been AFK re: this place. Because I recall your
> technology advocacy in the metro Detroit school systems, I wanted to
> share with you an essay I wrote in the middle of last year. While
> Sugar is aimed at K-6 (especially developing world?) students, my
> essay examines the application of netbooks to developed world high
> school education, especially STEM subjects. A key point it makes is
> that by enabling "flip teaching," computers might finally overturn the
> pertinent and painful accusation by Stanford's Emeritus Professor
> Cuban that "The Laptop Revolution Has No Clothes."
> 
> I could have simply contacted you directly by e-mail alone, but I
> thought that using this Sugar Labs mailing list would let folks
> interested in K-6 see if anything I wrote might enlighten what they
> are doing, too. Look here:
> http://bellsouthpwp.net/d/o/docdtv/Education/HCHSnetbooks/
> 
> Ron
 		 	   		  
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