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A history of the did you know video as well as an interview with the authors Karl Fisch and Scott McLoed about the future of education. Lots of good lines in here

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have ushered a seismic shift in education: how our kids learn, how our teachers teach, how curriculum is shaped and presented, how individual students, powered by technology, process and experience what they're learning.
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math teacher and now the technology coordinator at Arapahoe High School
First, Fisch posted original slideshow on his own blog. It quickly fired up the education blogosphere of which Fisch, a long-time teacher, is one of the earliest pioneers. A few months later, he got an e-mail from Scott McLeod, then an instructor at the University of Minnesota and now an associate professor of educational administration at Iowa State University -- if you want to be a principal of superintendent, contact McLeod. McLeod loved the slideshow but also wanted to tweak it a bit, shave off about half a minute, jazz it up with photos and do a video, which he then posted on his own blog.
Then, this fall, The Economist contacted Fisch and McLeod. They, too, created a new version, which they presented at their Media Convergence Forum last month -- "convergence" being one of the biggest and most overused buzz words in media.
viewed about 25 million times
'Man, how can we keep up with all of this?', and 'Man, I'm excited to be living in a world with this much possibility.'
"In some ways, it's a shock video to tell people who are in denial about all the changes we've been going through. It's using a very tried and true and traditional technique: presenting quantitative facts that are surprising. We are shocked by the quantitative facts, scale of the changes, that have happened in such a relatively short period of time."
"When you show some version of the video to corporate people, like the folks at Sony, they nod their heads and say, 'yeah, this is the challenge we're dealing with.' When you show it to kids, to students, they nod their nods and say, 'yeah, we've been waiting for you to catch up, we've been living through all of this.'
When you show it to educators, as often as not, the predominant reaction is withdrawal. They retreat like a turtle to its shell. Not all of them. But a lot of them. It's too much. It's too overwhelming. They don't know what to do with it. This is our challenge."
"individual needs of students"; "take control of their own learning"; and "pursue their passions."
I felt almost threatened by the rigorous standardized testing, which grew more and more constant as years passed
viderate" -- video literate? It's a term coined by Andrew Rasiej, one of the leading thinkers in technology culture.
* What does it mean to literate in the 21st century?
Is it time that we require students to pass a Media Literacy course
Are we teaching students about their digital footprints? The positive and negative consequences
How is the relationship between teachers and students changing? Fisch noted that "our schools are currently designed for a world where information is scarce, not abundant, where kids come to school to get information, from the teacher and the textbook." In classrooms today, Fisch added, "the teacher is no longer the smartest person in the room if there's an Internet connection."
But teaching, for the most part, is a one-way street. Students learn, teachers teach. Should a classroom be more like a collaborative experience, where a teacher is what Fisch calls a "chief learner" who is learning alongside the students?
Can we encourage students to create what Fisch calls "personal learning networks"?
Yesterday, President Obama launched Educate to Innovate,