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Economics of Climate Change

He states, "our actions over the coming few decades could create risks of major disruption to economic and social activity, later in this century and in the next, on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the 20th century."[3][4] In June 2008 Stern increased the estimate to 2% of GDP to account for faster than expected climate change.[5]

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Back to the Classroom: The Forum for Education and Democracy

The chance to “make a difference” in young people’s lives is what makes teaching a calling. But working in a community of learners that prizes real intellectual development and creativity, and having a level of control over what you can do on a daily basis, is what sustains that calling.

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sparking students’ intellectual curiosity by
encouraging teachers to “teach to their passions”
Beacon’s freedom from
the state Regents examinations in social studies – the result of a hard-earned
waiver – allows for a thematic approach and a deep exploration unconstrained by
coverage considerations.
All classes will do extensive writing and
revision, developing the skill of using evidence to support conclusions. The students will engage in debates, make presentations,
and have varied avenues to demonstrate what they have learned and accomplished.
The chance to “make a difference” in young people’s lives is
what makes teaching a calling. But
working in a community of learners that prizes real intellectual development
and creativity, and having a level of control over what you can do on a daily
basis, is what sustains that calling.
Making decisions about students, teachers and schools
largely on the basis of standardized test scores ultimately is detrimental to the
kind of education all young people need.
Add Sticky Note
- These are the choices we make in the classroom that have lasting impacts on student attitude toward learning.
  posted by drichards on 2008-08-22

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Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

At the age of 40, King Gillette was a frustrated inventor, a bitter anticapitalist, and a salesman of cork-lined bottle caps. It was 1895, and despite ideas, energy, and wealthy parents, he had little to show for his work. He blamed the evils of market competition. Indeed, the previous year he had published a book, The Human Drift, which argued that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public and that millions of Americans should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls. His boss at the bottle cap company, meanwhile, had just one piece of advice: Invent something people use and throw away.

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Welcome to B.U.E.I.

Research Project: The objective of this project is to apply unique Canadian scientific and technical expertise and technology to investigating the history of sea level rise of the Bermuda Seamount over the past 20,000 years. Correlating the geological history of sea level rise with the predicted accelerated rise caused by climate change will provide a more reliable estimate of future sea level rise for Bermuda. This will, in turn, yield an improved calibration curve for Eastern Canada.

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Open Minds: Open Education and Open Culture by David Thornburg » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

MOVE FORWARD OR FALL BEHIND
Computers for All: Brazilian governmental program
- stores in Brazil sell both food and technology
- special logo on machine means the government will give you a 24 month interest free loan
- sold 800,000 of these machines without any marketing at all (grass roots word of mouth)

some countries get serious about education and technology, and that is really cool

MLK quotation: 3-31-1968: “Through our scientific and technological genious, we have made of this world a neighborhood and yet we haev not had the ethical commitment to make of it a brotherhood.”

We can talk of web 2.0 and these technologies
- the bottom line is that we CAN make of our world a brotherhood

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Jakesonline Wiki

This resource will house various collaborative pages where social authoring of important technology topics will hopefully take place. I am quite intrigued about the power of social Web authoring and the ability to take advantage of the collective intelligence of the Web.

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Seth's Blog: How to organize the room

If you could do one thing, make one choice, it should be this: make the room too small. Standing room only. People hanging into the hall. Watch what happens to your energy level.

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Are You Making Your Life Easier By Using A Personalized Start Page? | The Edublogger

Are you making your life harder or easier? Do you have to visit multiple websites in the morning to catch up on important information or does opening up your browser bring it to you?

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Raise Your Hands : Metanoia

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!

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Educators on virtual islands see classroom potential | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Houston Chronicle article on Second Life in Education w/interview responses from David WArlick, Chris Duke, Kevin Jarrett, Stephanie Sandifer, and others.

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In the virtual world, teachers can attend professional development sessions without costly registration fees or travel expenses. Rather than assigning book reports, they can ask students to design sets for Shakespearean plays. Teens can experiment with building cars or composing, and even selling, original music.
"The desktop requirements for Second Life are quite robust and the bandwidth it takes up is quite significant," said Chris Duke, an instructional technologist for San Jacinto College who is studying both the business and educational impact of Second Life.
"A lot of the conversations revolve around fear — if we open this stuff up to the kids, it could get out of hand or you could open the kids up to danger," said Stephanie Sandifer, a literacy coach at Houston's Waltrip High School who uses Second Life as a professional development tool.
While she's not ready to introduce Second Life to her students yet, Sandifer said being active in the virtual world helps her understand the type of collegiate and corporate world her students will enter after graduation.

Like the other educators in Second Life, Sandifer said the technology has provided her invaluable professional contacts and improved her teaching skills. She's had a chance to talk technique with colleagues from around the globe and has polished skills such as "Ustreaming" events live on the Internet.
Peggy Sheehy, a New York teacher whose school district owns six islands on a private estate in Second Life, said virtual worlds should be seen as part of the repertoire of tools that can be used to engage this new generation of students.
New Jersey teacher Kevin Jarrett agrees that results at his school — which hosts an after-school Second Life club for middle schoolers — have been encouraging. If teachers understood how the technology can erase peer pressure and teens' inhibitions, they wouldn't be so hesitant to try it, he said.

"When you put a kid behind that keyboard and screen, their true essences comes out," he said.
"If you were talking to a room of educators, they would have looked at you and said, 'I don't have time for this. Get away. I need to make overheads for my class,' " Jarrett said.
"Something that is that compelling, education cannot ignore, even though it doesn't make sense to us," said David Warlick, an education consultant and author from North Carolina. "What I look forward to is someone building an environment like this for education, where it becomes a sandbox for kids."

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ok so maybe this is a dumb question, but ... | Diigo Message System

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Earth Day Should Be Everyday - SimCity, Eat Your Heart Out!

To start with, the game is completely FREE (I love that word). Better than that, this is a perfect game simulation for middle school and high school teachers looking to provide a reflective learning experience for students interested in how the environment is affected by choices made by local or state government concerning energy production and use. It combines the addictiveness of Lemonade Stand with the deep control and management tools of SimCity. With only 150 turns to create a thriving economy and growing population based on realistic environmental practices, I thought I would be presented with simplistic choices, and be railroaded into some pre-scripted “save the Earth, reduce energy consumption”, but I was happily wrong.

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The Unwritten Biography: Philip Levine and Edward Hirsch in Conversation

Phil Levine on poetry, learning, his mother and his book of poems, The Mercy
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. ... But she loved poetry, fiction, music; that a son of hers would devote himself to this art thrilled her. Only the final poem in the book was written after her death, which was in the spring of last year just after she turned ninety-four. I did not see her death coming. The last time I spoke with her she sounded very snappy and was looking forward to my new book. I hope the book contains some of her zest for life, some of her belief in the power of beauty, some of her great humor. As a teacher you too must have known many young people who wanted to pursue poetry but were discouraged by their families. I'm one lucky guy to have had Esther Levine for my mother.

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WOW: Bringing Science Alive! (wiki) | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss

What happens when you:

Allow students to determine what they need to learn, and then enable students to manage their own learning activities?

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LearningBeyondBoundaries » The Conversation

While I was at ASCD 2008 in New Orleans in March 2008, I started a conversation with some ASCD Leadership Council members and my online network of educators about the need for educators familiar with Web 2.0 pedagogies to spread the word about how they are successfully using the new 21st Century technology to improve student learning. That conversation has continued until today, April 3, 2008. We have less than a month to pool our collective intelligence to help ASCD do a "bang up" job for it's membership in Orlando in March 2009 on technology and engaging students in learning. See the home page of this wiki for more details.

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While I was at ASCD 2008 in New Orleans in March 2008, I started a conversation with some ASCD Leadership Council members and my online network of educators about the need for educators familiar with Web 2.0 pedagogies to spread the word about how they are successfully using the new 21st Century technology to improve student learning. That conversation has continued until today, April 3, 2008. We have less than a month to pool our collective intelligence to help ASCD do a "bang up" job for it's membership in Orlando in March 2009 on technology and engaging students in learning. See the home page of this wiki for more details.

Go here to read the conversation as it developed on Professional Development 2.0 from March 16, 2008 to April 3, 2008 (Dennis Update - ongoing as of 4.17.08) when I then created this wiki. Join this wiki and help us develop a comprehensive proposal. In the process we will show how the online nextwork of educators works. If nothing else, at least that will be impressive. If you help out!
Thank you for connecting through Twitter. You have really hit the nail on the head that the Web 2.0 tools are not meeting mainstream, and I am right there, we need to change that!
I agree with your thinking that the tech presentations need to move to other conferences. Thanks for starting that shift.
This is something I have seen at many conferences and I am glad you are making it more obvious to others! One of my niches is using technologies with young children... when I spoke as a featured speaker at FETC (Florida) this year there were only 3 sessions for early learning... so when we add to ASCD, let's also remember to add content for elementary!! I can add an application or two myself. Do you have any specific pointers to help us add more technology, especially Web 2.0 to ASCD?
The field on Web 2.0 is wide open for ASCD 2009. See here. I can tell you that 2009 at the annual conference will be different if we "seize the day." ASCD is ready to embrace a new definition of literacy for the 21st Century at its annual convention in Orlando, but they need our help. It's now time for those whose pedagogies utilize web 2.0 tools to send the word out to their networks to submit proposals by May 1.

I also agree on a stronger focus on elementary programming is also needed.
Hi Dennis,

Are you on the committee or have some strong influence to be sure the proposals get accepted?
Hi Charlene,

It's not that simple. In life nothing worth having ever is. Hope this helps. I'm also going to post more on my blog so I can explain the context, but I can start the conversation by saying a few things here.

- I am president of the Massachusetts affiliate of ASCD,

- I am on the ASCD Leadership Council.

- I attended the Position Statement Committee discussion in New Orleans, ASCD 2008, last month on 21st Century education and was a strong advocate for ASCD beginning to help the staff, leadership and membership understand Web 2.0 pedagogies.

- I advocated in the same fashion for Web 2.0 pedagogies with Valerie Truesdale, current President of ASCD.

- Valerie pointed out that ASCD 2009 has a major theme on technology, **Imagine: Connecting Learners in an E-World**, and a major theme of engagement, **Imagine: Challenging Minds to Engage and Learn More Deeply**.

Based on what I know, I am optimistic that ASCD is ready for our message. I still have work to do, but if I have the names of a network of presenters like you, Gail and others interested with solid proposals, I will approach ASCD to advocate for an understanding of how significant our contribution could be on ASCD 2009. It would obviously help if I had ten or more people so I could say, "Hey, look at us; we have something to offer ASCD that will move the educational technology strand from successful to significant! Not sure what will come of it, but it sure beats complaining that no one listens to us.

Dennis
Dennis,

Thanks for the encouraging information. I think that in the past some technology-rich presenters have felt discouraged by not having applications accepted. I will apply and also encourage others to do so!
Now if I'm going to advocate for you and others who apply, I think it would help for me to know who applies and what the proposals look like. It would also makes sense for people not to duplicate similar topics. How can we orchestrate that?
Well, let's see, we can use Twitter, this site, and others to gather information about people planning to apply OR perhaps a more proactive approach -- offer to ASCD some expertise in helping them fill a technology-infused or technology-rich strand by helping them select the sessions which will be hosted in a specific room or rooms throughout the conference (thus pooling the higher technology needs (high speed internet and projectors, sound, IWB or whatever) into a specific set of rooms. We could serve to help them make this a dynamic, meaningful and important part of their conference. We could help them balance grade levels, technologies, levels of experience required of participants, etc.... I wonder what others think...
Great ideas, almost create a "package" of well balanced presentations, balanced grade levels and interest. I like Gail's thinking about hosting in specific rooms using appropriate technology that helps spread the message. For example instead of going to an IWB session, actually see the board in action during a presentation. I would also like to extend the buzz by having "meet-ups" or a networking sessions on various topics. These could be informal sessions to promote conversations. I will be working on topic ideas this week.
I do like this idea - a bit like NECC's OpenSource Lab concept. A suite of Web 2.0 tools demonstrated and presented.
I think we need to LEAD with the content (curriculum, learning, etc) and USE the tools as much as possible and then intersperse that a bit with the tool "how tos" and "whiz bang"... this conference will draw people who want to learn about using technologies IN curriculum and not so much the techies, at least that would be my first take. We may have sessions that people come to to find out the basics (Like "What IS Web 2.0?") but perhaps MORE who wonder about having learners participate in global learning communities or who ponder making curriculum more differentiated through technology.... it will be important to not ONLY "preach to the choir" of the technology-lovers at ASCD, but to snag a few through the content... am I making any sense?

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Grant summary - Google Docs

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Develop
and implement an effective and sustained course of study
for inservice teachers of STEM by integrating the courses of study
into schools of arts and sciences and/or education at
institutions of higher education.
Increase
the number of STEM teachers in the partner districts who are
licensed in the subject area(s) and grade level(s) they
teach.
Increase
the number of STEM teachers in the partner districts who
participate in high quality professional development and advance
their content knowledge.
Develop
and implement a systemic approach to STEM education by integrating
professional development with district and school STEM improvement
initiatives.
with demonstrated effectiveness in
improving the quality of STEM teachers
Private
schools are eligible to participate in a partnership and should be
given equitable opportunity for participation.
web page to
communicate and disseminate partnership activities
STEM
school improvement plans
creating
developing
tools to assess teachers' STEM professional development needs (of
all teachers in the identified content area(s) and level(s)) to
inform their Individual Professional Development Plans (IPDP);
and/or

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Evaluation Plan Requirements - Google Docs

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Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0 | Tech News on ZDNet

Seely Brown argued that education is going through a large-scale transformation toward a more participatory form of learning.

Rather than treat pedagogy as the transfer of knowledge from teachers who are experts to students who are receptacles, educators should consider more hands-on and informal types of learning. These methods are closer to an apprenticeship, a farther-reaching, more multilayered approach than traditional formal education, he said.

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Frequently Asked Questions - New England Association of Schools and Colleges: Commission on Public Secondary Schools (CPSS)

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Journler - Wherever Life Takes You

Elegant, beautiful, powerful. Journler is a place for your thoughts and everything they touch.

Featuring iLife integration, audio and video entries, extensive document importing and instantaneous searching and filtering, not to mention Mail, iWeb and Address Book integration, a dash of blogging and AppleScript and Spotlight support.

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Dennis Richards's Bookmarks

Economics of Climate Change

Back to the Classroom: The Forum for Education and Democracy

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

Welcome to B.U.E.I.

Open Minds: Open Education and Open Culture by David Thornburg » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Jakesonline Wiki

Seth's Blog: How to organize the room

Are You Making Your Life Easier By Using A Personalized Start Page? | The Edublogger

Raise Your Hands : Metanoia

Educators on virtual islands see classroom potential | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

ok so maybe this is a dumb question, but ... | Diigo Message System

Earth Day Should Be Everyday - SimCity, Eat Your Heart Out!

The Unwritten Biography: Philip Levine and Edward Hirsch in Conversation

WOW: Bringing Science Alive! (wiki) | Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts :: David Truss

LearningBeyondBoundaries » The Conversation

Grant summary - Google Docs

Evaluation Plan Requirements - Google Docs

Futurist: To fix education, think Web 2.0 | Tech News on ZDNet

Frequently Asked Questions - New England Association of Schools and Colleges: Commission on Public Secondary Schools (CPSS)

Are more schools on warning or probation as a result of the 2000/2005 Standards and visit protocol?

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