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25 Aug 09

“Willing to be Disturbed”

From Weblogg-ed, great post about how teachers need to have their way of teaching "disturbed" so that they question themselves and their instruction.

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11 May 09

Weblogg-ed » Continual, Collaborative, on the Job Learning

The power of the read/write web is in it's ability to connect, not just publish.

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Our continued emphasis on tools in pd misses that larger point, obviously, because the power of the Read/Write web is not the ability to publish; it’s the ability to connect. Broken record, I know, but tools are easy; connections are hard. And so the question becomes how to best help educators realize these potentials in the learning sense first. Because at the end of the day, community building has to become an integral part of what we do in our classrooms with our students, as well. We have to be able to model those connections for them and understand them in ways that are meaningful to our own learning practice.

The challenge is, of course, that “continual, collaborative, on the job” learning isn’t very convenient for professional developers or for teachers in classrooms. It means re-thinking what learning looks like, and that’s a scary place still for most in education.

06 Apr 09

Weblogg-ed » Transparency = Leadership

Great blog post from Will Richardson on the need for schools to become transparent, admins to be transparent to staff in their own learning and the push for schools to educate students on being transparent.

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there is certainly much I could learn from them if they were sharing. But most of them are not.
Whether they are in the classroom or in the front office, I want (demand?) the adults in my schools to be effective models for living in a transparent world.
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- Contribution counts for more than credentials. When you post a video to YouTube, no one asks you if you went to film school. When you write a blog, no one cares whether you have a journalism degree. Position, title, and academic degrees—none of the usual status differentiators carry much weight online. On the Web, what counts is not your resume, but what you can contribute.
  - What a great quote. - on 2009-04-06
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- My kids need to be surrounded by contributors, people who understand the nuances of these spaces and relationships that we interact with on a daily basis. And not only do they need to see contribution, they need to see it done well, ethically, honestly, meaningfully.

05 Dec 08

Weblogg-ed » So What is the Future of Schools?

A great blog post from Will Richardson about his thoughts of where schools are going after his trip to Microsoft's Future of Schools conference.

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I think I’m finally getting to the root of my continued frustration with my kids’ education which is the system’s inability to help them find and nurture the areas they truly have passion for. It would be nice if the institution were the place that connected my kids to the experts they desired and needed to support their learning, wouldn’t it?
I found myself amazed at how deeply woven the reasons why not are ingrained in our conversations. At one conversation, someone said that many of her teachers didn’t feel like they needed to teach with technology at all since their students were doing just fine passing the tests without it. And I wanted to scream (but instead politely said) ‘then we gotta change the assessments.” Nothing in these conversations changed my view that to really change what we do in schools we have to first change our understanding of what it means to teach in this moment. That doesn’t mean than we throw out all of the good pedagogy that we’ve developed over the years and make everything about technology. But it does mean, I think, that technology has to be a part of the way we do our learning business these days.

24 Nov 08

Footprints in the Digital Age

From Nov issues of ASCD's Ed Leadership, how to make sure students are "Googled well" and what that means for education. Great article by Will Richardson.

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14 Nov 08

Weblogg-ed » Get. Off. Paper.

Discussing the move from taking single-user notes on paper to collaborative notes on a computer.

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At the end of a presentation a few days ago with a couple of hundred pen and paper note taking attendees (and the odd laptop user sprinkled here and there) I answered a question about “What do we do now?” by saying “Well, first off, it’s a shame that the collective experience of the people in this room is about to walk off in two hundred different directions without any way to share and reflect on the thinking they’ve been doing all day. Next year, no paper.”
- What a great point. Having notes online allows everyone to see, but putting them on paper usually secludes them to the notebook. - on 2008-11-14
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