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metacool: Designing at the Boulder Digital Works
As John Maeda recently noted, the missing partner to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) is IDEA (Intuition, Design, Emotion, Art). As a person who was trained on both sides and now works and plays across STEM and IDEA, I feel strongly that our education programs need to combine both in order to create the T-shaped people that can go out and make a difference in the world (Principle 6).
Fluid Learning
7.22.09
* Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the classroom, lose touch with the students, lose the ability to make a difference.
* Although RateMyProfessors.com has enlightened students, it has made the work of educational administrators exponentially more difficult.
* The lesson is simple: control is over. This is not about control anymore. This is about finding a way to survive and thrive in chaos.
* ...net filtering throws the baby out with the bathwater.
* Education happens everywhere, not just with your nose down in a book, or stuck into a computer screen.
* The instructor facilitates and mentors, as they have always done, but they are no longer the gatekeepers, because there are no gatekeepers, anywhere.
* The center of this argument is simple, though subtle: the more something is shared, the more valuable it becomes.
* You can’t download experience. You can’t bottle it. Experience has to be lived, and that requires a teacher.
* Recommendations: 1) Capture Everything, 2) Share Everything, 3) Open Everything, 4) Only Connect
* All of this [filtering] has got to stop. The classroom does not exist in isolation, nor can it continue to exist in opposition to the Internet.
* Mind the maxim of the 21st century: connection is king. Students must be free to connect with instructors... administration... [and] their peers.
* The challenge of connectivity is nowhere near as daunting as the capabilities it delivers.
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Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the classroom, lose touch with the students, lose the ability to make a difference.
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Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the classroom, lose touch with the students, lose the ability to make a difference.
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The Case for Working With Your Hands - NYTimes.com
7.21.09
* The Princeton economist Alan Blinder argues that the crucial distinction in the emerging labor market is not between those with more or less education, but between those whose services can be delivered over a wire and those who must do their work in person or on site.
* A gifted young person who chooses to become a mechanic rather than to accumulate academic credentials is viewed as eccentric, if not self-destructive.
* As I sat in my K Street office, Fred’s life as an independent tradesman gave me an image that I kept coming back to: someone who really knows what he is doing, losing himself in work that is genuinely useful and has a certain integrity to it.
* It would probably be impossible to do such work in isolation, without access to a collective historical memory; you have to be embedded in a community of mechanic-antiquarians.
* Good diagnosis requires attentiveness to the machine, almost a conversation with it....
* The regularity of the cubicles made me feel I had found a place in the order of things. I was to be a knowledge worker.
* A good job requires a field of action where you can put your best capacities to work and see an effect in the world. Academic credentials do not guarantee this.
* In the boardrooms of Wall Street and the corridors of Pennsylvania Avenue, I don’t think you’ll see a yellow sign that says “Think Safety!” as you do on job sites and in many repair shops, no doubt because those who sit on the swivel chairs tend to live remote from the consequences of the decisions they make.
* Our peripheral vision is perhaps recovering, allowing us to consider the full range of lives worth choosing. For anyone who feels ill suited by disposition to spend his days sitting in an office, the question of what a good job looks like is now wide open.
SNAKEBIT_ BIG BEARD FILMS
"Once you've had that, you're snakebit after that. The passion's going to be there. And it may stay latent for awhile. It may be 20 years before we hear from these students, but it'll come back."
Snakebit is a documentary film on the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the radical educational design/build program known as the Rural Studio that he co-founded deep in poverty-stricken Hale County, Alabama. Awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius” grant and the American Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal Award for his work at the Rural Studio, Mockbee was an artist, builder and educator who instilled his passion and philosophy in those he believed will become a new generation of “citizen architects.” Snakebit is a 60-minute film for PBS that explores the effort by Mockbee to inject architecture's future practitioners with the knowledge and passion to improve their community's quality of life by putting compassion and ethical responsibilities at the heart of their design.
Julius Shulman Film » Blog
“What good is a dream house if you haven’t got a dream?” -Julius Shulman
The Innovative Educator: Ten 21st Century Education Quotes I Carry With Me
1-Technology is only technology to those who were born before it.
2-We need to prepare students for THEIR future not OUR past-Ian Jukes, educator and Futurist.
3-Teachers need to stop saying, “Hand it in,” and start saying “Publish It.” Alan November
4-We have moved from “know what” learning to “know where” learning.
5-The largest number of podcasts in education are about Podcasts in education.-Marco Torres.
6-Kids DO want to learn, but schools get in the way.
7-Digital Media enables us to build more stages for our kids to express themselves. - Marco Torres
8-What gets us in trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know that just ain't so. Mark Twain.
9-We need to replicate in the classroom the world in which students are living.
10-If we teach today the way we were taught yesterday we aren't preparing students for today or tomorrow.
NECC 2009 - Progressive Pedagogy and 21st Century Tools
7.15.09
*We work best/learn best when it matters to us. 15
*Tools don't teach, but they can change the way we teach. 22
*The schools we need [are] understanding driven. 40
25 ways to teach with Twitter by Sonja Cole
Twitter can feel like a strange new landscape when you first jump in. It is not always clear what its professional uses are, or what to post in 140 characters or less. But when you start to think of Twitter as a micro-blog (and not just a forum for the personal minutiae of people’s daily lives), you will find that Twitter can be a valuable tool for professional development. Here are 25 ways that teachers can use Twitter to ask for help, get lesson plan ideas, book and professional resource recommendations, connect with other professionals, and even host an online book club.
TCRecord: Trends of School Effects on Student Achievement
The impact of schools on student achievement has been of great interest in school effects research the last four decades. This study examines trends of school effects on student achievement, employing three national probability samples of high school seniors: NLS:72, HSB:82, and NELS:92.
Presentation Zen: Is education killing creativity?
Sir Ken makes many good points — some you may not agree with — but he certainly is not saying that math and science should be taught or studied less, rather that music and the arts and creativity in general should be pursued more.
The World According to Speers: 30 Things Good Teachers do
Great to discuss core purpose of a team.
Teaching in the 408: Meet Jake
Let's hope like hell, cuz Jake or someone like him will be in room D2 next year, teaching my kids. I resign on Monday.
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