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Print: When Professors Print Their Own Diplomas, Who Needs Universities? - Chronicle.com

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:27:05 -0000

Who needs college credit when you have a makeshift diploma from a superstar professor?

Tags: open teaching open courseware learning education

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educational-origami » home

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:19:39 -0000

Wiki related to the Bloom's Taxonomy Blooms digitally article.

Tags: education web2.0 wiki resources rubrics

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Surprises in Houston | 2¢ Worth

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:06:04 -0000

Summary/Highlights that David Warlick noted during his day at the Convocation 2008 in Houston on March 28th, 2008.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

very unconference.

However, the one main surprise that lots of people expressed was how much the entire group, regardless of their position among education stakeholders, agreed that old school does not server today’s children.

A conclusion drawn by one group was that if we are to teach lifelong learning skills, then teachers and leaders should be willing to model these skills, to present themselves as master learners.

We can’t drag this out. Stop demanding pilot projects and overhaul the system.
(Classrooms) need to get updated.
Technology is not the answer.
If I (forty-something) am able help my children with Their homework, then there may be something wrong.
Today I don’t need to know everything I just need to know how to find what I need to know.
There is a disconnect between what we’re doing in school and what we need for life.
Change is going to happen. Are we going to anticipate the change and facilitate it, or are we going to wait and try to rebuild in the chaos that ensues.
Drop the text books and give (them) laptops. Textbooks are lousy.
Give a sabatical to all teachers to make themselves an expert in some area that could be used by the school (leaning theory, etc.)
Teachers talk about lifelong learning, but they are not willing to practice it (lots of paraphrasing)

Tags: ALF Classroom Flat Houston A Challenge Warlick

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Raise Your Hands : Metanoia

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:25:03 -0000

Great post about how educators need to be professional learners -- a topic near and dear to my heart that I've also written about many times!

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

I’m talking about a collaborative learning culture where professionals are working towards continuous growth by engaging in daily learning: discussing and evaluating practices, challenging assumptions, engaging in new learning opportunities, embracing stretch moments, observing peers, etc.

Tags: education learning learning professional metanoia professional development

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Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Stephen Downes on Personal Learning

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:46:35 -0000

Stephen Downes' presentation around personal learning -- includes powerful slides on how learning is different in this increasingly connected social web

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I, Cringely . The Pulpit . War of the Worlds | PBS

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:41:50 -0000

the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools.

The University of Phoenix is supposedly preparing a complete middle and high school online curriculum available anywhere in the world.

Tags: cringely culture edtech education learning

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Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy » Letting Go

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:36:52 -0000

younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready to jettison institutions most of the rest of us tend to think of as essential, central, even immortal. They are ready to dump our schools

Tags: 21st Century change education learning schools

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