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Created:on 2008-04-19 | Updated:on 2008-07-14

For those websites that seem to be more about the philosophy of Ed Tech rather than "how to"

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Tryangulation: My part of the world is not flat

An American blogging about his job teaching in Turkey. There's a section I highlighted about a Turkish "Idol" type issue and the resulting MySpace mess.

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more fromtryangulation.typepad.com
- The YouTube Wars
  
  Prof. Akalın was probably pleased last week when, for a few days at least, we lost our access to that Eurovision winning song. In response to a satirical video that was offensive to the memory of Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey, a Turkish court shut down any access to YouTube.com. The offending video was uploaded supposedly by Greeks wanting to antagonize their neighbors, and it prompted a war of offensive and counter offensive videos and endless (and pointless) comments. It is against the law here to insult Atatürk, but since the offenders were "out there" somewhere beyond prosecution on the Internet, punishment was levied on Turkish Internet users instead.
  
  The story is even sadder as I remember attending a conference in Athens last fall with several Turkish colleagues, and we were pleasantly surprised at the warmth of so many Greeks, including several who spoke with us in Turkish.
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well-being

Students are less happy in secondary school

Tags: middle school, wellbeing, education on 2008-04-27 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.neweconomics.org
- new study of young people’s well-being by nef shows that young people’s well-being drops drastically at secondary school, with significant effects on their personal development.
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Flexknowlogy » Defining “Creepy Treehouse”

When adults coopt what the kids see as "theirs" for schooling purposes.

Tags: creepytreehouse, education, 21stcentury on 2008-04-27 and saved by7 people -All Annotations (1) -About

more fromflexknowlogy.learningfield.org
- This article is an attempt to objectively define the phrase “creepy treehouse” as coined by Chris Lott, and in current usage by ed tech folks such as Scott Leslie, Marc Hugentobler, John Krutsch, and others
- In the field of educational technology a creepy treehouse is an institutionally controlled technology/tool that emulates or mimics pre-existing technologies or tools that may already be in use by the learners, or by learners’ peer groups.
- nstructors push down hot Web 2.0 technologies, while students push back with vocal objections or passive resistance.
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Top News - Gaming helps students hone 21st-century skills

Gets specific about the impact of gaming on students skill development.

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more fromwww.eschoolnews.com
- Gaming helps students hone 21st-century skills
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Clueless in America - New York Times

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more fromwww.nytimes.com
- I mean our high schools — even when they’re working as designed — cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.”
- The wide disparity in the literacy and math skills of both the school-age and adult populations. These skills, which play such a tremendous role in the lives of individuals and families, vary widely across racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups.
  • The “seismic changes” in the U.S. economy that have resulted from globalization, technological advances, shifts in the relationship of labor and capital, and other developments.
  • Sweeping demographic changes. By 2030, the U.S. population is expected to reach 360 million. That population will be older and substantially more diverse, with immigration having a big impact on both the population as a whole and the work force.
- Ignorance in the United States is not just bliss, it’s widespread.
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Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle and High School age kids in the surrounding communities of Walnut Creek, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Lafayette, Pittsburg, Antioch. Children experience Democracy, Freedom &

Interesting. John Taylor Gotto on education and the value of less rather than more school. He mentions that the best programmers are self-taught.

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- Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make
  reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.
- New York State, for
  instance, employs more school administrators than all of the European
  Economic Community nations combined.
- In modern society,
  said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by
  their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who
  read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately
  empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they
  don't know by themselves, without consulting experts
- rederich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten in 19th century
  Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a "garden for children"
  in mind, but a metaphor of teachers as gardeners and children as
  the vegetables.
- Kindergarten was created to be a way to break the
  influence of mothers on their children.
- Violence, narcotic addictions, divorce,
  alcoholism, loneliness...all these are but tangible measures of
  a poverty in education.
- I heard a
  vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign
  the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country
  became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action
  of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers
  who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none
  of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach
  computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of
  leading the world in this literacy.
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Why Schools Don't Educate - The Natural Child Project

More John Gotto--his speech as he accepted the Teacher of the Year award. Written in 1990, but spot on today.

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- The world's narcotic economy is based
  upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so many
  powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an
  important sales outlet.
- Senator Ted Kennedy's office
  released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory
  education the state literacy rate was 98% and after it the figure never
  again reached above 91% where it stands in 1990
- in the United States almost nobody who reads,
  writes or does arithmetic gets much respect. We are a land of talkers,
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Shocking Origins of Public Education - Gatto

WOW. I'm not sure what I think about htis. I'll come back more later.

Tags: gatto, education, 21stcentury on 2008-05-03 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.4brevard.com
- Carl Rodgers
  and Dave Maslow, who were used really as the religious text for psychologizing a
  classroom for years. At the end of both of those men's lives, they repudiated
  their life's work.
- That is a pointed foreshadowing of the massive Ritalin
  interventions which would accompany the student body of the future.
- Schools were conceived to serve the economy and the
  social order rather than kids and families -- that is why it is compulsory.
- Managing
  children is what professional childcare is about in America. Schools are part of
  the professional child care empire and education has nothing whatsoever to do
  with it.
- chool is a place where children learn to dislike each other
- Those of you who took rat psychology in college will
  know what I'm referring to -- just like the experience of rat psychology, the
  bizarre behavior kids display is a function of the reinforcement schedule in the
  confinement of schooling to a large degree. I'm certain of that. Children like
  this need extensive management.
- to
  realize the potential in machinery and fossil fuel, that the bulk of the
  population would have to be dumbed down and made dependent -- not to hurt people
  -- but because only in this fashion could a population of producers, which
  surely characterizes the American scene then, be turned into the consumers
  required by a commercially intense economy.
- Schools would serve as "instruments of managed evolution, establishing
  conditions for selective breeding before the masses take things into their own
  hands"
- certain kinds of mental training in history, in philosophy, in rhetoric, for
  instance, made students resistant to manipulation because it developed
  independent intellect, it reduced their plasticity.
- n our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our
  molding hands. The present education conventions of intellectual and character
  education fade from their minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good
  will upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people
  or any of their children into men of learning or philosophers, or men of
  science. We have not to raise up from them authors, educators, poets or men of
  letters, great artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, doctors,
  (he's really covering the whole gamut of employment isn't he?)
  statesmen, politicians, creatures of whom we have ample supply (whoever the pronoun we is meant
  to stand for there). The task is simple. We will organize children and teach
  them in an perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an
  imperfect way".
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Souly Catholic H.S.: Unleashing the Power of TED

The TED site is full of 18 minute videos of people speaking on original revolutionary ideas. Really shows the power of the web to spread intellectual discourse.

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more fromsoulycatholichs.blogspot.com
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enrichment2 » home

Gifted education ideas using web 2.0 with students from multiple schools.

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more fromenrichment2.wikispaces.com
- Technology of the 21st century provides educators with new and exciting possibilities for engaging gifted and talented students in enrichment programs. T
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Never Friend Anyone Over 29 - Blog Maverick

gets to the immigrant native issue

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more fromwww.blogmaverick.com
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Ignite Social Media: The original social media agency

Marketing via social networking.

Tags: 21stcentury, web2.0 on 2008-05-06 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.ignitesocialmedia.com
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edublogs: Getting down to the nitty-gritty of filtering - it's not got a future

Filtering is pointless? At least as a control. I'm still for basic filtering of flat out porn for 11 year olds.

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more fromedu.blogs.com
- a minority of your students can provide unfiltered access to the web to their mates in our increasingly collaborative classrooms,
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Explaining the Cognitive Surplus (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Shoot your TV!

Tags: web2.0, 21stcentury on 2008-05-08 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromjeremy.zawodny.com
- watching TV is no longer the de-facto spare time activity that I'm going to simple force people to watch it when they claim not to understand how I have no time to watch television.
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Dangerously Irrelevant: My not-so-friendly library, boring teachers, and other marketing interactions

Schools and marketing. Interesting.

Tags: education, marketing on 2008-05-09 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.dangerouslyirrelevant.org
- every interaction with a customer / client / patron /
  stakeholder / visitor is a marketing interaction. It’s
  an opportunity for us to build or erode our brand, a chance to increase or
  decrease the trust and goodwill of the people with whom we are interacting.
- every time a parent walks
  away unhappy from an encounter at school, that’s a marketing interaction.
- Every time a member of the
  community walks through an uninviting building,
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Technology Review: Social Networking Hits the Genome

Freaky. Reminds me of the sci fi of the 90's.

Tags: genome, socialnetworking on 2008-05-13 -All Annotations (0) -About

more fromwww.technologyreview.com
- a new social-networking service that allows customers to compare their DNA.
- encourage consumers to get DNA testing, potentially creating a novel research resource in the process
- people can find each other by their alleles
- most of the controversy centered on the medical applications. Customers can learn their genetic risk, compared with the general population, of myriad diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes, macular degeneration, and cancer. But many scientists and physicians say that it's unclear whether the average user can truly comprehend this information, and whether knowing her genetic risk will actually improve her health
- allows people to compare their genome with those of family members, friends, and even strangers who have offered up their DNA data
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Welcome to the Caves of the Code Breakers

self assessment for learning styles. Looks cool.

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more fromwww.ncwiseowl.org
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Inspirational Talking Points Justifying 1:1 Computing

Laptops and things to say about them.

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more fromwww.stager.org
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Learning with Laptops

list of rsources about learning, education, laptops. Covers the gamut. From Gary Stager.

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more fromwww.stager.org

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Tryangulation: My part of the world is not flat

well-being

Flexknowlogy » Defining “Creepy Treehouse”

Top News - Gaming helps students hone 21st-century skills

Clueless in America - New York Times

Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle and High School age kids in the surrounding communities of Walnut Creek, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Lafayette, Pittsburg, Antioch. Children experience Democracy, Freedom &

Why Schools Don't Educate - The Natural Child Project

Shocking Origins of Public Education - Gatto

Souly Catholic H.S.: Unleashing the Power of TED

enrichment2 » home

Never Friend Anyone Over 29 - Blog Maverick

Ignite Social Media: The original social media agency

edublogs: Getting down to the nitty-gritty of filtering - it's not got a future

Explaining the Cognitive Surplus (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Dangerously Irrelevant: My not-so-friendly library, boring teachers, and other marketing interactions

Technology Review: Social Networking Hits the Genome

Welcome to the Caves of the Code Breakers

Inspirational Talking Points Justifying 1:1 Computing

Learning with Laptops

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