Antonio Viva

Tag: Technology

Sharing thoughts on 1 to 1 Laptop Learning

I was recently inteviewed by members of Worcester Academy’s Board of Visitors regarding 1 to 1 laptop learning.

Are we ready?

It really is a simple question, isn’t it? Are we ready? Are our schools, teachers, administrators truly ready to stop talking about teaching and learning in the 21st century and instead, start actually doing IT? I have been thinking about this quite a bit recently, and an email from a colleague prompted me to revisit [...]

EduCon 2.1 Sunday Morning Reflections

This is my first time attending EduCon and I must admit that it has on the whole, delivered in every way. As I sit here in a Starbucks trying to catch my breath and enjoying a Vanilla Rooibus Tea latte I am thinking about the depth and breadth of conversations I have been able to [...]

Redefining College Prep

We recently held a professional development day where a portion of the morning program was devoted to the topic of differentiated instruction. Our very talented and capable Center for Learning Director worked with her equally talented and capable staff to design an hour long presentation intended to serve as a follow up to their presentation [...]

21st Century CIOs for 21st Century Schools

This presentation was done on December 6th, 2008 at The Association of Boarding Schools conference in Baltimore, MD. We had a great group of 12 independent school administrators and teachers. Thanks to those who came and enjoy!

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“Equity, Access, and Opportunity” – Harvard Education Letter

Today I received in the mail, my copy of the Harvard Education Letter, published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The cover article focuses on how “despite the challenges” more schools are adopting one-to-one laptop programs. The article goes on to say that over the last several years, many schools across the United States [...]

21st Century CIOs for 21st Century Schools

The technology landscape keeps changing and anyone working in schools over the past several years can tell you that. When I was hired as the CIO at my current school in 2002, using terms like podcasting, blogging and wikis were words very few faculty members would have recognized. Six years later, many of Worcester Academy’s [...]