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17 Oct 09

The Fun Theory

11 Oct 09

Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Just Call Them Skills

So here is what I suggest. Lets drop the "21st Century" and just focus on skills. Using that term makes it sound like what we are doing is cutting edge, new and different. To be honest. there shouldn't be anything cutting edge with what we are doing in education. When a district gives all its students laptops they should be seen as behind the times and not "leading the charge to '21st Century Skills'". When a teacher uses social media in their classroom it should be seen as "it's about time." Rather than keep talking about what skills we are talking about we need to embrace the tools and applications that students are using outside of school and bring them into our classrooms. There isn't anything "21st Century" about that. Its just what we need to be doing!

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Here we are in 2009 and we are still talking about and worried about "21st Century Skills." I hate to break it to some, but we are 9 years in to the 21st Century.
In the U.S. the majority of these "21st Century" students are being taught with 18th Century methods.
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- So here is what I suggest. Lets drop the "21st Century" and just focus on skills. Using that term makes it sound like what we are doing is cutting edge, new and different. To be honest. there shouldn't be anything cutting edge with what we are doing in education. When a district gives all its students laptops they should be seen as behind the times and not "leading the charge to '21st Century Skills'". When a teacher uses social media in their classroom it should be seen as "it's about time." Rather than keep talking about what skills we are talking about we need to embrace the tools and applications that students are using outside of school and bring them into our classrooms. There isn't anything "21st Century" about that. Its just what we need to be doing!
- we should not spend too much time giving ourselves credit for "the train leaving on time.

04 Jun 09

Where’s the Innovation? | always learning

Tom explained that innovation falls squarely in quadrant 2 of Steven Covey’s matrix: it’s “Important”, but “Not Urgent”.

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Tom refers to this as the “Red Queen Effect” after a scene in Alice’s Adventures Through the Looking Glass, where Alice is shocked to be standing in the same place after running quite fast for an extended period of time and the Red Queen explains, “if you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.”
nother Hong Kong presenter, Stephen Heppell, was also careful to emphasize that the biggest challenge today is the pace of change: exponential. With this rapid pace of change there is no time for the “staircase mentality” (pilot, review etc).
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- what are we mistakenly not valuing now?
- Tom explained that innovation falls squarely in quadrant 2 of Steven Covey’s matrix: it’s “Important”, but “Not Urgent”. For example, we absolutely have to have a new math/science/reading/social studies program. The teachers can’t teach without one, so picking a new one is going to fall in quadrant 1, and ultimately, innovation gets put off until tomorrow. However, innovation has an urgency all its own and those that don’t place innovation as a priority will find themselves displaced.
- his is a good example of the difficulty people face in conceptually realizing the advantages of bold innovation: we naturally assume that slow steady progress will be best (as we are taught from an early age, when the tortoise wins the race).
- The time for innovation is now, as Stephen described (and Marco Torres’ slide below emphasizes), “learning is at a crossroads:” we’re looking at a choice between productivity and new approaches, those new approaches being:
  
  student portfolios;
  making huge leaps in our model of education, not tiny steps forward;
  working to produce ingenious, engaged, inspired, surprising, collegiate students;
  and developing learning experiences that are open-ended, project-focused, multidisciplinary.
- I can’t remember who said this first but, “technology is just an amplifier” - technology doesn’t change the quality of teaching or learning, it will only amplify it, either in a positive or negative way. What we need to be looking at is changing our approaches to learning, not modifying our curriculum to a “newer” version of what we’ve already had for the past 20 years.
- bsolutely fabulous. This is great stuff. I just wrote a post on Thursday arguing that the “learning management system” paradigm prevents innovation and change. If we don’t break out of it, we’re destined to get out-innovated, as you suggest.
- I came across a great quote from Frank Tibolt this morning: “We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
- “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” - Alan Kay

25 Apr 09

The New Reality: Constant Disruption - The Big Shift - HarvardBusiness.org

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This model argues that technological discontinuities periodically arise to interrupt longer periods of relative stability. Once businesses learn to harness the disruptive elements of today's digital technologies--or so the conventional thinking goes--everything will settle back into equilibrium.

14 Apr 09

Leading Change in Your School

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05 Apr 09

shortsighted.pdf (application/pdf Object)

To future generations, Americans‘ current educational myopia is likely to appear, at best, a negligent failure to anticipate and meet the needs of the nation and its citizens. And for the sake of those future generations, the short-sighted practices and parochial policies that have delayed significant improve-ment in the nation‘s educational advancement must change. To provide students with a world-class education, the United States, beginning with strong leadership from the U.S. Department of Education (ED), must adopt a more global outlook. The tools and opportunities already exist; indeed, the United States has even subsidized their creation. Now the nation needs to participate in, learn from, and act on the results of internationally benchmarked assessments.

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02 Apr 09

Michelle Obama hugs Queen - breaks royal protocol! | csmonitor.com

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YouTube - We Think

Wonderful vid about the democratizing power of Web 2.0 and the main idea of "wikinomics", but I'd have to say these ideas are more Tapscott-ish than Leadbeater's.

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29 Dec 08

ed4wb » Blog Archive » Institutions as Barriers, Organizations as Enablers

PLNs and GLNs function best when they form organically–not due to decree or lengthy planning; when they can tap into the power of disparate voices–often found outside of the institution; are need-driven, amorphous, self-organizing, self-policing, fluid, p

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http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/12/slide---incremental-change.html

McGuhlin's great slide - another good one for a presentation

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http://www.poptech.org/blog/index.php/2008/12/17/gentle-ways-of-changing-the-world/

recent book Gentle Action: Bringing Creative Change to a Turbulent World argues that smaller, community-generated interventions — or “gentle actions” — should be considered before dramatic, top-down programs. The author, F. David Peat, is a physicist and

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12 Dec 08

ed4wb » Blog Archive » Insulat-Ed

In an effort to stave off obsolescence, using an operational model developed when information/expertise and group-forming were expensive or impossible, many schools are attempting (often under the banner of security) to insulate their members from the out

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20 Nov 08

NH educators found NY school for at-risk students - Boston.com

At Big Picture schools, students design their own learning plan and set their own goals with the help of parents and mentors. At Lafayette, one instructor -- purposely called an adviser instead of a teacher -- handles all the lessons and stays with the sa

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13 Nov 08