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Education on 2009-02-10
- Address the Dropout Crisis:
21st Century Learning: 21st Century Workforce Readiness on 2009-02-09
- “Thinking in
  terms of the skills, knowledge, abilities and opportunities needed to prepare
  today’s students for the 21^st century workforce – what are the
  barriers that are currently keeping this from happening in our classroom and
  community?”
- Students need to be geared towards their interests not just
  college.
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- - Young people have built their own community through
    technology. Social networking, texting,
    etc. We need to pick up on the skills
    our kids have and build on that with kids.
  - “We have
    to train our teachers to learn and teach in a different way.” Relationship, relevance and investment. When kids fall in love with learning it’s
    because they see the relevance.
  - Everyone needs to model from top down
  - “The soft-skills of team-work and problem solving need to be part of our
    education to be ready for the work force.
    We need situational leaders in addition to supervisors, etc. Know when
    to lead, when to step back, be cross-functional”
  - What about kids who won’t need the tech (21^st)
    skills to make it in life?
American Association of School Administrators - Publications - The School Administrator - Tom Friedman on Education in the ‘Flat World’ on 2008-12-31
- As you know, my equation is CQ + PQ > IQ. Curiosity Quotient plus Passion Quotient is more important than Intelligence Quotient.
  
  Pink: Amen. You show me a curious, intrinsically motivated kid — and I’ll show you someone who’ll leave the kid who merely complies with the rules and studies for the SAT in the dust.
Reports Manager - Schools on 2008-12-31
- Report is based on the Schools Overdues table but removes any items that have been checked in since that table was last built
One Laptop One Child | Scholastic.com on 2008-12-18
- In Forsyth, the district uses radius servers for centralized network management. This device identifies the districts’ computers, allowing them access to the network according to their status. Laptops that don’t pass this test are put on the district’s virtual lan. This gives them online access while keeping the user behind the district’s firewall and within its Internet filters. It keeps these computers—and their users—away from the district’s network.
- we know these things are really necessary but we don’t want to make it too difficult for a student to connect.”
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- - use their lectures
  - The reality is that a well-run program where more students have access to technology and use the tools in meaningful ways is a goal for every school.
  - computers in more hands can help speed schools along the path to 21st-century learning, Walery says. “You’d be teaching them how to collaborate and work in the tech-rich time that we’re in. Teachers need to think about teaching in a different way,” he says. “If you’re doing that, a lot of these [problems] go away.”
  - savvy tech directors already predict that as technology advances, kids will move on from the laptop.
    
    “The cell phone is their thing,” Walery says. “Communication is the main [goal]. They constantly text back and forth.”
    Most districts tolerate cell phones, but require them to be turned off in class. Murray says that free online programs could allow teachers to use student cell phones as personal response devices. Instead of picking the next American Idol, the phones could be used for a multiple-choice quiz in geometry, he says.
Project Resources & Research : Powerful Learning Practice, LLC on 2008-12-11
- The main problem is not the absence of innovation in schools, but rather the presence of too many disconnected, episodic, fragmented, superficially adorned projects.
  
  - Michael Fullan (2001)
LibraryThing | Very short introduction on 2008-11-19
- Start your LibraryThing library by adding books to it.
- Each book you add to your library connects you to other people on LibraryThing.
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- - Connect with other members by joining or creating a group.
  - All the group forums are connected through Talk. Talk is a special sort of "forum" system. With Talk you can see the conversations happening in all groups, or just your groups.
  - You can show off your LibraryThing library to anyone! Use the unique URL listed on your profile to link to your catalog and your profile.
ahsawnm08p5whitneys2 » Final Paper on 2008-11-07
- However, the education community needs to recognize the importance of the Arts in education Daniel Pink emphasizes in A Whole New Mind, because the Arts develop both hemispheres of the brain, increase learning, and are crucial to success in the real world.
ahsawnm08p5whitneys2 » Reaction to Blogging with Pink on 2008-11-07
- Live blogging with Mr. Pink was a really interesting and effective learning experience. Since Mr. Pink wrote the book, he expanded his ideas and clarified a few things. It surprised me how he just fit into the conversation we were having and cared about what we had to say. He asked questions that challenged us to think beyond the text, while never making any of us feel below him. Thanks to Mr. Pink and my classmates, I now have a better understanding of Empathy and the balance it requires.
The Fischbowl: Think Pink: A Whole New Learning Experience on 2008-11-07
- Since Mr. Pink is presumably a very busy guy, he will only be live blogging that one chapter with the students. So we’ve invited a few other folks to live blog the other “Sense” chapters with the students. This includes local folks like our superintendent, our CIO, and two of our school board members, but also includes a variety of folks from around the world that are members of my personal learning network.

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