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Starting an Online Program: To Blend or Not to Blend

August 22, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Internet Safety, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit Blended Learning:  First, in all of the blended programs, the students learn in a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home at least

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Starting an Online Program: The Target Student Group

August 17, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Internet Safety, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit School administrators are being bombarded with encouragement to use digital learning in their classrooms.  Neighboring districts may be employing blended learning or

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Innovation and Democracy

August 11, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Internet Safety, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit Is innovation a democratic process? Innovate:  to introduce something new; make changes in anything established. (reference) In Disrupting Class, author Clayton Christen informs school boards that introducing digital learning

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Student-Teacher Interaction Essential in Online Courses

August 5, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements (Click the image to see it larger.) Student-teacher interaction is essential in online courses. Online courses require rich content that includes many modalities for

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Deregulation of Education 3: Show Me The Money

April 24, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit Wes Freyer recently reported on a digital learning conference in Oklahoma.  In this report he included a video about the money potential

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Normal is Revolutionary

March 14, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit  “What’s revolutionary for adults is normal for kids,” stated Jaime Casap of Google to technology leaders at a meeting of the Illinois Chief Technology

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Technology is Distraction in Schools

February 2, 2012 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, online learning, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit Ron Packard of K12.com spoke today at an Illinois Policy Institute program today in Chicago.  He thinks technology is a distraction in schools because

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Online learning: Shouldn’t We Do better?

December 15, 2011 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, online learning, Technology

Advertisements Image Credit With online learning, shouldn’t we do better?  Shouldn’t we have higher expectations?  Shouldn’t we stop telling partial truths?  Partial truths don’t help

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Notes From the Virtual School Symposium 2011

November 13, 2011 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, online learning, Personal Technologies, Technology

Advertisements Over 1,900 conferees assembled in Indianapolis for the Virtual  School Symposium November 9-11, 2011.  My notes from the day follow.  A wiki is available for

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The Deregulation of Education II: The Measures of Quality

November 13, 2011 Jeffrey L. Hunt 21st Century Fluencies, Five Technology Trends in Schools, Leadership, Technology

Advertisements Image Source In 1937, F. Dean McClusky was asked to study why there had been a failure of commercial film makers to make successful

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Chart Caption - 2023, March 30: Venus and Mercury are visible in the western sky after sundown.
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Author's Notes: Two bright planets are in the evening sky. Look for Evening Star Venus in the west-southwest. Venus moves high in the sky. The moon is in the western evening sky after sunset. Mars marches eastward in western Gemini, near Castor's foot.

Chart Caption - 2023, March 30: Mars is at Castor’s foot, while the gibbous moon is near Pollux.
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Copyright Statement: This web site is written and edited by Dr. Jeffrey L. Hunt. The photos and diagrams are made by the author unless otherwise credited. Raw data is from the U.S. Naval Observatory, Starry Night computer program.

Content is derived from multiple astronomical sources, including the U.S. Naval Observatory, NASA, ESA, and various books, including Astronomical Tables of the Sun, Moon and Planets by Jean Meeus.  Starry Night and Stellarium computer programs are used as well.  Updates and corrections are made as required.  Some articles are updated at the time of actual astronomical events with new photographs.  The author strives for accurate information.

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