Derek Brandow (derekbrandow)'s Public Profile in the Diigo Community

I was a classroom teacher but left when I couldn't teach anything but testing skills and facts. I am now building a school that allows kids to collaborate, innovate, and contribute...and use cell phones (what a concept).

I am interested in Learning,Writing,Teaching,Coaching,Being a dad,Reading,Entrepreneur,Music,Cooking,Wine,Gardening,Basketball. My favorite music are Marc Cohn,Mat Kearney,Anya Marina,Alison Krauss,Ben Harper,Christopher Williams,Cold Play,David Gray,The Freddy Jones Band,Iron & Wine,Jackson Browne,James Taylor,Lauren Hill,Joss Stone,Oasis. Movies: Dead Poets Society,Good Will Hunting,Fight Club,Goonies,Hoosiers. TV: Food Network (Alton Brown),March Madness. Books: Harry Potter (all of them),The Sun Also Rises,The Passion,Chronicles of Narnia. My Heros are Any boy to overcome a life without a father,Any father to work his ass off to connect with his kids.

Member since Mar 25, 2008, follows 3 people, 0 public groups, 23 public bookmarks (23 total).

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9 Benefits of Twitter for Bloggers on 2009-04-22
- improve the quality of my blogs
  network with other bloggers
  widen my readership
  grow my profile
  drive traffic to my blogs
- Example - the wonderful thing about Twitter is that it’s actually others who brand you and not just you who does all the work. Look at the example above and you see that 30 people (it’s now up to 40) answered my question and each time they did they publicly used my blog’s name and linked to my Twitter account. Those 30 or 40 people are collectively being followed by thousands of others and by responding to my question they ’sneezed’ the ProBlogger virus out to them (incidentally I’ve had 15 new followers join up since posting that question just minutes ago).
ISTE Director on Education Technology and Building 21st Century Schools : April 2009 : THE Journal on 2009-04-18
- but to maintain that statu
Nine great reasons why teachers should use Twitter | Laura Walker on 2009-04-17
- Twitter can be like a virtual staffroom for me
- Twitter can be like a virtual staffroom for me
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- - Twitter can be like a virtual staffroom for me
  - a lonely busi
  - Twitter can be like a virtual staffroom for me
  - a lonely busi
  - a lonely busi
Adoption History: Harry Harlow, Monkey Love Experiments on 2009-03-12
- The awesome power of attachment and loss over mental
  health and illness could hardly have been performed more dramatically.
Options and Opportunities ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes on 2009-02-27
- Today, choice is becoming increasingly important to parents and students.
- While many schools struggle with traditional computer labs, initiatives such as the Maine Laptop Program,
  which provides each student with his or her own personal computer, are promising models. Teachers are
  able to personalize instruction, students are more motivated, and learning has improved.
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- - Thus, the Knowsley Metropol-
    itan Borough Council in Merseyside, England, an industrial
    suburb with a student population of 21,000, is closing its
    1950s-era high schools and replacing them with student learning centers
  - In a BBC News article, Nick
    Page, the man responsible for overseeing the transformation,
    argues that the district is responding to parent and community
    demands. Students, parents, and employers wanted "different
    types of products" from the education system, Page said. "What
    we are trying to do is to make sure that the physical and learning structures are adaptive and relevant in 25 years' time."
10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know on 2009-02-13
- 1. Use Your Friend Lists
- feature which allows “you to create private groupings of friends based on your personal preferences.
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- - You can configure your friend lists by visiting the friends area of your Facebook.
Everyone else is on Facebook. Why aren't you? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine on 2009-02-12
- Even doing nothing and waiting for others to friend you is enough: You're establishing a presence for other people to connect with you, which is the site's main purpose.
- That brings us to Harris' argument: What's the social utility to Facebook—why should you join? Like with e-mail and cell phones, there are many, and as you begin to use it, you'll notice more and different situations in which it proves helpful. In general, Facebook is a lubricant of social connections. With so many people on it, it's now the best, fastest place online to find and connect with a specific person—think of it as a worldwide directory, or a Wikipedia of people. As a result, people now expect to find you on Facebook—whether they're contacting you for a job or scouting you out for a genius grant.
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- - Skeptics often suggest that online social networks foster introverted, anti-social behavior—that we forge virtual connections at the expense of real-life connections. But only someone who's never used Facebook would make that argument. Nobody avoids meeting people in real life by escaping to the Web. In fact, the opposite seems true: Short, continuous, low-content updates about the particulars of your friends' lives—Bob has the flu, Barbara can't believe what just happened on Mad Men, Sally and Ned are no longer on speaking terms—deepen your bonds with them.
Everyone else is on Facebook. Why aren't you? - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine on 2009-02-12
- If Facebook were a country, it would be the eighth most populated in the world, just ahead of Japan, Russia and Nigeria," Zuckerberg wrote.
- Since then, an average of 374,000 people have signed up every day. At this rate, Facebook will grow to nearly 300 million people by this time next year.
What Life Asks of Us - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com on 2009-01-28
- we are not defined by what we ask of life. We are defined by what life asks of us
Top News - 'Digital Disconnect' divides kids, educators on 2009-01-15
- They said they'd like to use these mobile devices to communicate, collaborate, create and share documents, and increase their productivity.
- The obstacle I see is not so much the students, but the teacher use and knowledge of these tools. If the teachers cannot conceive the use of the these tools, students will not be able to use them.