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08 Feb 09

TCEA Top Story - Web 2.0: What does the future hold for schools?

  • "Web 1.0 was largely a ‘push' operation, taking already existing content and posting it online," said Bower. "Web 2.0 is driven by ‘pull,' not push. ... Kids can create their own content and interact."
  • Before the internet, Bower said, the two most important developments from an educational perspective were the invention of the printing press and the creation of a university system. But both of these developments were "push" operations, he said--meaning they pushed information out to students, rather than letting students experience learning for themselves.
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26 Jan 09

25 hour day

Here is what google is looking for in their employees:

… analytical reasoning. Google is a data-driven, analytic company. When an issue arises or a decision needs to be made, we start with data. That means we can talk about what we know, instead of what we think we know.

… communication skills. Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn’t useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.

… a willingness to experiment. Non-routine problems call for non-routine solutions and there is no formula for success. A well-designed experiment calls for a range of treatments, explicit control groups, and careful post-treatment analysis. Sometimes an experiment kills off a pet theory, so you need a willingness to accept the evidence even if you don’t like it.

… team players. Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team’s expectations.

… passion and leadership. This could be professional or in other life experiences: learning languages or saving forests, for example. The main thing, to paraphrase Mr. Drucker, is to be motivated by a sense of importance about what you do.

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24 Jan 09

What Will Classroom Learning Look Like?

EduCon 2.1 Proposal--What Will Classroom Learning Look Like?

Inspired by recent studies and reflections on the evolution of online social media and its uses by teens, we'll spend some time attempting to paint a picture (in some broad strokes) around what effective classroom learning might look like in schools that have chosen to evolve their models. We'll frame the conversation around the questions posed in the conclusion of the "Living and Learning with New Media" study released in November by the MacArthur Foundation. Those questions, as well as some other salient and relevant quotes are included on a Google Notebook page at http://tinyurl.com/educonlearning. Please let me know if you have other starting points you'd like to add. Reminder: this is a conversation, NOT a presentation. Together we'll make a stab at a vision of classroom learning moving forward and, if time, generate some ideas of how best to get there.

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05 Jan 09

10 Ways Twitter Will Change Blog Design in 2009

In 2008, Twitter really started to hit the mainstream and bloggers began adding widgets to their sidebars to display their latest tweets.
In 2009, Twitter will become much more tightly integrated with the rest of the blog in a variety of ways - watch out

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