Twitter Goes to College - US News and World Report
Though Twitter might not yet be quite as popular among students as Facebook or MySpace, a growing cadre of professors and administrators are embracing it and using it to introduce their classes to a different kind of communication and networking—one that doesn't involve "poking" friends or posting photos.
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From the Fox Hole
So, on the topic of connecting ... I now understand that connectivism values the pursuit of knowledge and the modern day, forward-thinking, instructor is socially connected to an endless web of contacts, communities, resources, tools and information through a virutal space that is not constrained by time or place.
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Weblogg-ed » Transparency = Leadership
So here is the money question: What two things (and only two) would you tell educational leaders are the most important steps they can take to lead change today?
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Weblogg-ed » One School’s Journey to Online Social Learning
A great read and PDF of one schools idea on how to create a social network for their students.
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Ideas to Inspire
'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities.
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MIT Press Journals - International Journal of Learning and Media - Full Text
A Must read from MIT Press on the future of reading....be ready...this one is heavy.
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Remote Access: Expanding Your Classroom's Global Perspective
How does information come into your classroom? Who controls it? Who gets to find it and mandate it for use?
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Thanks for the Add. Now Help Me with My Homework - News Features & Releases
A new study by alum Christine Greenhow finds social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have more educational potential than you might think.
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Weblogg-ed » Personalizing Education for Teachers, Too
Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers.
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A Thought For Tonight... - Practical Theory
As we all rush to change the world, and as we hear more and more about a sense of urgency to change our schools, let us remember that what we don't know... about our kids, about learning, about what lies ahead of us... vastly outweighs that which know. And let us always be humbled by the enormity of the task in front of us. It is that humility that allows us to hear the smallest voices around us, be it the voice of the quiet student too afraid to voice her confusion or our own voice -- the voice of doubt in the back of our mind that forces us to question even our most core beliefs over and over again.
Let us be passionate, but never blind.
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Dangerously Irrelevant: It's not a revolution unless someone gets hurt
I think it is becoming increasingly clear that our current system of education is going to go away. There are simply too many societal pressures and alternative paradigms for it to continue to exist in its current form.
The only question, then, is: How long are we going to thrash around before we die?
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Paul Ambrose: Wikis in Education (Jan. 19-25)
Dinosaurs who do not see their oncoming extinction are such obstacles to change for us.
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Seth's Blog: What is school for?
Seems like a simple question, but given how much time and money we spend on it, it has a wide range of answers, many unexplored, some contradictory. I have a few thoughts about education, how we use it to market ourselves and compete, and I realized that without a common place to start, it's hard to figure out what to do.
So, a starter list. The purpose of school is to:
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Weblogg-ed » It’s Riskier Not to Change–”Tribes”
The first rule the music business failed to understand is that, at least at first, the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you’ll never begin. Soon enough, the new thing will be better than the old thing. But if you wait until then, it’s going to be too late. Feel free to wax nostalgic about the old thing, but don’t fool yourself into believing that it’s going to be here forever. It won’t. (93)
Think education instead of music.
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2¢ Worth » What is the Purpose of Education?
“The purpose of education is to appropriately prepare our children for their future.”
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Weblogg-ed » Web 2.0 Not for Everyone (?)
And I love this little twist from Sir Ken’s book: It’s not “how intelligent are you?” as much as it’s “how are you intelligent?” He talks about “The Element” as being at the intersection of “unique personal aptitude combined with a deep passion and commitment” (46).
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Hoover Institution - Education Next - How Do We Transform Our Schools?
That schools have gotten little back from their investment in technology should come as no surprise. Virtually every organization does the same thing schools have done when implementing an innovation. An organization’s natural instinct is to cram the innovation into its existing operating model to sustain what it already does. This is the predictable course, the logical course—and the wrong course.
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From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons
There is something in the air, and it is nothing less than the digital artifacts of over one billion people and computers networked together collectively producing over 2,000 gigabytes of new information per second. While most of our classrooms were built under the assumption that information is scarce and hard to find, nearly the entire body of human knowledge now flows through and around these rooms in one form or another, ready to be accessed by laptops, cellphones, and iPods. Classrooms built to re-enforce the top-down authoritative knowledge of the teacher are now enveloped by a cloud of ubiquitous digital information where knowledge is made, not found, and authority is continuously negotiated through discussion and participation.1
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Bill Gates And His Silver Bullet - Forbes.com
The foundation spent some $2 billion promoting the dissolution of large high schools and the creation of small schools. Big-city superintendents stood in line, ready to jump on the Gates' bandwagon, and today there are small schools in every urban district.
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