David Warlick's Profile

Writer, programmer, public speaker, and 30+ year educator. I live in North Carolina, but live much of my life on the road traveling to schools and education conferences, teaching and learning, and learning and teaching.

I am interested in Education,technology,photography,music composition,travel. My favorite music are Tears for Fears. Movies: Bourne movies,Kingdom of Heaven,Sabrina (both versions),Replacement Killers,The Day the Earth Stood Still. TV: West Wing,Firefly,Winds of War,House,Jericho. Books: John Sanford,Greg Bear,David Baldocci,Ken Follett (Pillars of the Earth). My Heros are Johnny Quest's Father.

I use Diigo because I'm trying it out, because there seems to be some buzz about it on the edublogosphere.

Member since Dec 12, 2006, follows 61 people, 3 public groups, 2402 public bookmarks (2412 total).

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  • 2 Cents Worth on 2009-09-28
  • 2¢ Worth » Search Results » new brunswick on 2009-09-26
    • At the conference, I met Ian Foggarty (sounds like a rock star).  Ian is a physics and biology teacher who has taken on the idea of students as producers.  Rather than giving his students a lab manual for doing their experiments, their job is to write the lab manual.  They are doing it online, and are keen to make it as interactive as possible — and they are willing to go as far as to hire another student to come in and add some flash animations to their project.  They pay him a carton of chocolate milk every day.  They also want to include some user input features, and suspect that this is going to cost at least some chocolate-chip cookies.
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        David Warlick on 2009-09-26

        This is a wonderful example of students investing in their own learning -- investing chocolate milk even ;-)

    • I did get to see kids practicing these skills in Chad Ball’s class, where he is teaching civics in a different way.  Rather than teaching the concepts and vocabularies, Chad simply posted the information on the class wiki, pointed his students to it and then assigned them to work in teams and invent their own political party.  They were required to have a platform, to write speeches, have a mascot and logo, and to present their party to the class, and to utilize all of the vocabulary words and political concepts in the process. 


      Chad told us that he had just decided to suggest that they take the project further this year, and had posted this suggestion on the class wiki.  The students complained at first, but by the time Jeff and I got to the class, a half hour later, there were already 102 comments on that wiki page, from the students, mostly talking about ways that they might extend the project.  A very flat classroom!


      I was fascinated that several of the students created a party web site, using Piczo, which is a social networking site that seems to be favored by youngsters in Canada.  What’s interesting is that the site is blocked by the school district.  How do those kids do that?

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        David Warlick on 2009-09-26

        Another example of students investing in their own learning -- the classroom becomes a learning engine.

  • At Your Fingers, an Oxford Don - NYTimes.com on 2009-09-15
    • “The promise of technology is to take us back to the past, toward one-to-one learning,” said Monica Martinez, president of the New Tech Network, a nonprofit group that trains teachers and designs high schools that use computing extensively. “But this is returning back to that concept in a very different way.”
    • “The promise of technology is to take us back to the past, toward one-to-one learning,” said Monica Martinez, president of the New Tech Network, a nonprofit group that trains teachers and designs high schools that use computing extensively. “But this is returning back to that concept in a very different way.”
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        David Warlick on 2009-09-15

        I think that this is well and good, but it harkens to "Instructional Technology." Technology used for learning. I am much happier seeing students utilizing their information environment (through the technology) to learn. It is more authentic and more relevant to the learning skills they will need in the future.

        That said, I think that the two models can and should coexist...

  • the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry on 2009-09-06
  • A Timeline of the History of Blogging -- New York Magazine on 2009-09-03
  • SPAM VISUALIZATION - wordScore on 2009-09-03
  • 15 Predictions for the Library of Tomorrow – Online Degree Programs.org: Top Online Degrees on 2009-09-03
  • http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/blog/?p=644 on 2009-09-02
  • 150 Worth Knowing Web Developer Tools and Techniques | tripwire magazine on 2009-09-02
  • http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/Education+Blogs+by+Discipline on 2009-09-01

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