2. Digital Age Learning Culture
Educational Administrators create, promote, and sustain a dynamic, digital-age learning culture that provides a rigorous, relevant, and engaging education for all students. Educational Administrators:
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Some interesting shifts, but still pretty vague in spots.
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model and promote the frequent and effective use of technology for learning.Add Sticky Note
- Love to see what some of the benchmarks are here. "Technology for Learning" needs some specific description.posted by willrich on 2009-06-29
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promote and participate in local, national, and global learning communities that stimulate innovation, creativity, and digital-age collaboration.Add Sticky Note
- This is a good step, but again, what does this look like. Is this a real re-envisioning of the learning practice? A real pedagogical shift?posted by willrich on 2009-06-29
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Educational Administrators model and facilitate understanding of social, ethical and legal issues and responsibilities related to an evolving digital culture. Educational Administrators:
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ensure equitable access to appropriate digital tools and resources to meet the needs of all learners.Add Sticky Note
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"But Blue Pages is not just a way to find people by keyword, it is also a way to research a particular person or subject area, by pulling together blog posts, bookmarks (saved in a Del.icio.us-like social bookmarking application called Dogear), and documents related to that person or subject tag. This gives the searcher not just a good overview of how someone describes themselves, but how they are defined by others, and by their own actions and interests."
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The potential for social networking tools to connect huge numbers of people has been clearly illustrated. Companies want to harness that power themselves, and not just for marketing or recruitment, but also for internal communications and collaboration
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the need to locate expertise within companies whose employees are dispersed across many locations and time zones,Add Sticky Note
- Change that from companies to networks and you have the same need in personal learning.posted by willrich on 2009-06-24
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- Same here, right?posted by willrich on 2009-06-24
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But Blue Pages is not just a way to find people by keyword, it is also a way to research a particular person or subject area, by pulling together blog posts, bookmarks (saved in a Del.icio.us-like social bookmarking application called Dogear), and documents related to that person or subject tag. This gives the searcher not just a good overview of how someone describes themselves, but how they are defined by others, and by their own actions and interests.Add Sticky Note
- Really interesting how they pull this together. Wonder if there is such an aggregation software out there for us normal folks, pulling all the tags together on a particular person from which we can assess expertise, and "how they are defined by others." That is a crucial piece of this.posted by willrich on 2009-06-24
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These interconnections are also described in a graphical view which shows how people are linked together, and thus who to approach for an introduction to required expertise. Social network mapping exposes the network's structure, so it's easy to see who is best connected in a given community.
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Green School Bill Passes While USGBC Cheers On - otto
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In a move to urge congress to commit additional research funding to evaluating the environmental, economic and health benefits of green schools, the USGBC and the US Conference of Mayors have endorsed the recent passage of the 21st Century Green High-Performing Public Schools Facilities Act. The act — H.R. 2187 — authorizes billions of dollars to support school repair, renovations and modernization projects in school districts nationwide.Add Sticky Note
- This is a cool idea.posted by willrich on 2009-06-22
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Educational Leadership:Teaching Social Responsibility:The Window into Green
But wait, it gets worse. If you place your finger on the pulse of the planet, this is what you'll discover: global surface temperatures rising, glaciers melting, oceans warming, sea levels rising, rain forests burning, coral reefs dying, old-growth forests disappearing, deserts spreading, the world's population increasing, and species vanishing at the highest rates since the extinction of the dinosaurs.
In short, the ecology that underpins our economy is also collapsing. And the solutions to this challenge elude not only most of our graduates, but also us—their teachers, administrators, and parents.
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But wait, it gets worse. If you place your finger on the pulse of the planet, this is what you'll discover: global surface temperatures rising, glaciers melting, oceans warming, sea levels rising, rain forests burning, coral reefs dying, old-growth forests disappearing, deserts spreading, the world's population increasing, and species vanishing at the highest rates since the extinction of the dinosaurs.
In short, the ecology that underpins our economy is also collapsing. And the solutions to this challenge elude not only most of our graduates, but also us—their teachers, administrators, and parents.
- Every teacher should be an environmentalist.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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A typical high school student is aware of environmental issues, has discussed and debated climate change or rain forest loss in some class sometime, and might have bumper-sticker answers to lapel-pin questions. But do our students know where the trash goes when it leaves their house? The leading source of greenhouse gas emissions? Why we recycle? (Glass and aluminum, after all, are not rare resources.) If you ask a group of students what we can do to combat the warming trend, several will chime in that we need to remove chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from hair spray. (Many high schoolers conflate global warming with ozone depletion and haven't been told that CFCs were removed from the market 20 years ago.)
My organization surveyed high school students on these questions and more and discovered that although students are overwhelmingly "pro-environment," they possess remarkably little information about breaking environmental issues. One small example: We asked them to name one bird they can identify by song. The leading answer? None. If local birds disappear from the landscape because of extinction, or arrive three weeks late because of warming climates, it's possible that no one will notice.
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To address today's geopolitically entangled world of large, complex eco-issues, students simply have to know more than they did 40 years ago.Add Sticky Note
- Absolutely true.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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First, students are extraordinarily disconnected from the environment.
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Viewing screens has become a child's full-time job
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Second, ask any environmental educator and he or she will bemoan No Child Left Behind, whose pressures have caused many schools to trade outdoor field trips for test prep.
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Third, students' exposure to environmental education depends on the luck of the draw and the amalgam of the interests of whichever teachers they happen to have throughout their school career.Add Sticky Note
- This is why I'm turning into much more of an advocate for all teachers being environmentalists, or having an environmental bent to every aspect of the curriculum.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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And finally, the downside of the large nonprofit universe of environmental education facilities—zoos, museums, aquariums, nature centers, parks, arboretums, children's gardens—is that schools approach environmental education like a Chinese menu.
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Students are graduating from our schools thinking that green is good. But we haven't given them the tools they need to become environmentally literate citizens.Add Sticky Note
- And the irony is that "green" is not always good. Greenwashing is making the harder conversations even more difficult.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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Exposure to nature raises test scores; increases creativity, cooperation, and self-confidence; reduces stress; and enhances cognitive abilities.Add Sticky Note
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For better or worse, the charter school movement has been sweeping across the United States in the last decade. A growing number of charter schools have been designed around the simple premise that the entire science curriculum can be taught through environmental education.Add Sticky Note
- Why not the whole curriculum?posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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In place of the rigorously scheduled school day of science, English, and gym periods, these programs use the environment and the outdoors as the centerpiece of students' curriculum.
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U.S. schools teach what American culture considers important. Once society decided that computer literacy was central to a solid education, computer classes invaded schools at warp speed, and the "digital divide" became an important and contentious issue.
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But the four horsemen of the global apocalypse—warming, species loss, water scarcity, and population growth—are bearing down on us, and many environmentalists worry about a vanishing window of opportunity for addressing these issues. Science fiction writer H. G. Wells was prophetic when he wrote in 1920 that "human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
Environmental literacy is one race that education must win.
- Totally agree.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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Studies Explore Whether the Internet Makes Students Better Writers - Chronicle.com
The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.
Some scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.
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The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.
Some scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.
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The rise of online media has helped raise a new generation of college students who write far more, and in more-diverse forms, than their predecessors did. But the implications of the shift are hotly debated, both for the future of students' writing and for the college curriculum.
Some scholars say that this new writing is more engaged and more connected to an audience, and that colleges should encourage students to bring lessons from that writing into the classroom. Others argue that tweets and blog posts enforce bad writing habits and have little relevance to the kind of sustained, focused argument that academic work demands.
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"What was interesting to us was how small a percentage of the total writing the school writing was," says Jeffrey T. Grabill, the study's lead author, who is director of the Writing in Digital Environments Research Center at Michigan State. In the diaries and in follow-up interviews, he says, students often described their social, out-of-class writing as more persistent and meaningful to them than their in-class work was.Add Sticky Note
- This isn't surprising, is it?posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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"Digital technologies, computer networks, the Web — all of those things have led to an explosion in writing," Mr. Grabill says. "People write more now than ever. In order to interact on the Web, you have to write."
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Mark Bauerlein, a professor of English at Emory University, cites the reading and writing scores in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which have remained fairly flat for decades. It is a paradox, he says: "Why is it that with young people reading and writing more words than ever before in human history, we find no gains in reading and writing scores?"Add Sticky Note
- I just find this so disingenuous. First of all, what are we assessing in order to find out if there has been improvement? Second of all, I just hate how he blames the kids.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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Students in the study "almost always" had more enthusiasm for the writing they were doing outside of class than for their academic work, says Andrea A. Lunsford, the study's director. Mr. Otuteye submitted about 700 pieces of writing and became the study's most prolific contributor.
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In looking at students' out-of-class writing, the Stanford researchers say they found several traits that were distinct from in-class work. Not surprisingly, the writing was self-directed; it was often used to connect with peers, as in social networks; and it usually had a broader audience.
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"When you talked to them about their out-of-class writing, they would talk about writing to coordinate out-of-class activity," says Mr. Rogers, an assistant professor of English at George Mason University. "A lot of them were a lot more conscious of the effect their writing was having on other people."
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students who compose messages for an audience of their peers on a social-networking Web site were forced to be acutely aware of issues like audience, tone, and voice.
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"Everybody was writing in class, but the people who were writing out of and inside of class, that was sort of critical to accelerating their growth as writers."
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The implications of the change in students' writing habits for writing and literature curricula are up for debate. Much of the argument turns on whether online writing should be seen as a welcome new direction or a harmful distraction.
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to help students become better academic writers, and to help them become better writers in the outside world. The second, broader goal is often lost, he says, either because it is seen as not the college's responsibility, or because it seems unnecessary.Add Sticky Note
- I agree.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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Much out-of-class writing, he says, is for a broad audience instead of a single professor, tries to solve real-world problems rather than accomplish academic goals, and resembles a conversation more than an argument.
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Rather than being seen as an impoverished, secondary form, online writing should be seen as "the new normal," he says, and treated in the curriculum as such: "The writing that students do in their lives is a tremendous resource."Add Sticky Note
- I love that: The new normal.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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In one exercise she uses, students are asked to trace the spread of a claim from an academic journal to less prestigious forms of media, like magazines and newspapers, in order to see how arguments are diluted. In another, students are asked to pursue the answer to a research question using only blogs, and to create a map showing how they know if certain information is trustworthy or not.Add Sticky Note
- Great information literacy exercise.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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"If we don't invite students to figure out the lessons they've learned from that writing outside of school and bring those inside of school, what will happen is only the very bright students" will do it themselves, Ms. Yancey says. "It's the rest of the population that we're worried about."
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Students must be taught to home in on the words they write and to resist the tendency to move quickly from sentence to sentence, he says. Writing scholars, too, should temper their enthusiasm for new technologies before they have fully understood the implications, he says. Claims that new forms of writing should take a greater prominence in the curriculum, he says, are premature.Add Sticky Note
- Not sure why we can't do both.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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Some of the resistance to a more writing-centered curriculum, she says, is based on the view that writing without reading can be dangerous because students will be untethered to previous thought, and reading levels will decline.Add Sticky Note
- Interesting observationposted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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But that view, she says, is "being challenged by the literacy of young people, which is being developed primarily by their writing. They're going to be reading, but they're going to be reading to write, and not to be shaped by what they read."Add Sticky Note
- Yes, Yes, Yes.posted by willrich on 2009-06-18
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In the larger picture, the most intriguing thing about Twitter is not how it is different from other online communication mechanisms, but how it is the same: one more technological innovation enabling the outfolding of consciousness - the collective turning-outward of human thought.
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How Iran's Hackers Killed Big Brother - The Daily Beast
But I think it's also too easy to underestimate the real power of the Internet to provide more than information. On the Internet, content is not king - it never was. The value of Tweets right now is less the information they contain than the solidarity they promote. Like civil rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.
Twitter, for all its faults, and the Internet, for all its insubstantiality, nonetheless serve as the strands of an existential telegraph. By resisting those who would censor history in real time, those flinging messages into the ether are demonstrating their freedom of speech—or, rather, their freedom to speak in spite of all efforts to the contrary. This mere gesture of freedom— the ability to connect to others and confirm one's experience of the world — is what social networking is all about. While this may or may not be enough right now to topple an unjust government, the opposition, in demonstrating that this freedom is now a permanent right, has already claimed victory.
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But I think it's also too easy to underestimate the real power of the Internet to provide more than information. On the Internet, content is not king - it never was. The value of Tweets right now is less the information they contain than the solidarity they promote. Like civil rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.
Twitter, for all its faults, and the Internet, for all its insubstantiality, nonetheless serve as the strands of an existential telegraph. By resisting those who would censor history in real time, those flinging messages into the ether are demonstrating their freedom of speech—or, rather, their freedom to speak in spite of all efforts to the contrary. This mere gesture of freedom— the ability to connect to others and confirm one's experience of the world — is what social networking is all about. While this may or may not be enough right now to topple an unjust government, the opposition, in demonstrating that this freedom is now a permanent right, has already claimed victory.
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News & Record Editor: Social Web is a 'Cocktail Party' That's Improved the Paper
BECOME PART OF THE SOCIAL WEB. Newspaper executives should take it as a personal and professional challenge to participate in social media: Share photos and video online. Follow industry experts on Twitter. Create a Facebook or LinkedIn profile. This is extremely valuable market research. Learn all you can.
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BECOME PART OF THE SOCIAL WEB. Newspaper executives should take it as a personal and professional challenge to participate in social media: Share photos and video online. Follow industry experts on Twitter. Create a Facebook or LinkedIn profile. This is extremely valuable market research. Learn all you can.
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But it is more than that. As the report says, you can follow media experts on Twitter, etc., and learn from their links and their conversation. You can converse with people much smarter than you -- well, I can, at least -- and they'll respond, helping me. You don't need to know them, you don't need a fancy title, you don't need an introduction. You simply need to ask a question. How cool is that?Add Sticky Note
- I would kill to hear more principals talk like this.posted by willrich on 2009-06-10
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And, as a result, you establish yourself as a person. A real person. I hope that the people who connect with me on social networks see me as more than a name on a masthead. I engage with them. I show some personality, to the extent that I have one. I listen to what others are saying and let them know that I am learning from THEM.Add Sticky Note
- This goes back to the post of transparency as leadership. Willingness to learn in public.posted by willrich on 2009-06-10
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But it's an easy obstacle to avoid. You don't want to know what someone had for lunch? Cool, don't follow the people who write those types of things. Follow instead the people who tell you what they think about topics you're interested in.Add Sticky Note
- Der.posted by willrich on 2009-06-10
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I meet people on Twitter every day whom I wouldn't get a chance to meet without it. Interesting, entertaining, fascinating people who bring insight to my business and my community. As a journalist, as an engaged citizen, as a business leader, why wouldn't I embrace that?Add Sticky Note
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- These all relate to educators.posted by willrich on 2009-06-10
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Editors are supposed to be thinking strategically. We're supposed to be thinking about the future. We're supposed to experiment and try new things. We're also supposed to talk to our readers and engage with the community. So, this is part of the job, period.Add Sticky Note
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Any editor who says they don't have time to do these kinds of things is working on the wrong things.
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My day has probably gotten longer, but this is important stuff.
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Find people you know and follow them. Find people you don't know but who live near you or who do what you do and follow them. Jump in. Give it longer than a weekend before you decide if it's good or bad. Be yourself and be engaging.
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Your readers do know more than you; act like it. Respond to others' messages. It's fun. And if you don't find it fun, consider it what an old boss called a "development opportunity." Learning the social networking skills and establishing that online presence is an investment in your future.Add Sticky Note
- Your teachers do too. And your kids. Get with it.posted by willrich on 2009-06-10
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Make your staff members develop their digital brand, too. I would bet that if you asked them how many were on LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace or Twitter, you'd be surprised at how far behind you are!
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Knowledge bases are playing an increasingly important role in enhancing the intelligence of Web and enterprise search and in supporting information integration. Today, most knowledge bases cover only specific domains, are created by relatively small groups of knowledge engineers, and are very cost intensive to keep up-to-date as domains change.
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- Comment here.posted by willrich on 2009-06-09
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Clive Thompson on the Future of Reading in a Digital World
Every other form of media that's gone digital has been transformed by its audience. Whenever a newspaper story or TV clip or blog post or white paper goes online, readers and viewers begin commenting about it on blogs, snipping their favorite sections, passing them along. The only reason the same thing doesn't happen to books is that they're locked into ink on paper.
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Every other form of media that's gone digital has been transformed by its audience. Whenever a newspaper story or TV clip or blog post or white paper goes online, readers and viewers begin commenting about it on blogs, snipping their favorite sections, passing them along. The only reason the same thing doesn't happen to books is that they're locked into ink on paper.
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When the Thrill of Blogging Is Gone ... - NYTimes.com
According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
Judging from conversations with retired bloggers, many of the orphans were cast aside by people who had assumed that once they started blogging, the world would beat a path to their digital door.
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According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
Judging from conversations with retired bloggers, many of the orphans were cast aside by people who had assumed that once they started blogging, the world would beat a path to their digital door.
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“Before you could be anonymous, and now you can’t,” said Nancy Sun, a 26-year-old New Yorker who abandoned her first blog after experiencing the dark side of minor Internet notoriety. She had started it in 1999, back when blogging was in its infancy and she did not have to worry too hard about posting her raw feelings for a guy she barely knew.Add Sticky Note
- I think this is a big part of it and I wonder if your kids will share these concerns as they grow into their adult lives.posted by willrich on 2009-06-07
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But then she began getting e-mail messages from strangers who had seen her at parties. A journalist from Philadelphia wanted to profile her. Her friends began reading her blog and drawing conclusions — wrong ones — about her feelings toward them. Ms. Sun found it all very unnerving, and by 2004 she stopped blogging altogether.Add Sticky Note
- I wonder if it's the nature of the community here, but this just doesn't happen at all. Anyone in edublogging experience this on the creepy level?posted by willrich on 2009-06-07
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That’s a serious letdown from the hype that greeted blogs when they first became popular. No longer would writers toil in anonymity or suffer the indignities of the publishing industry, we were told. Finally the world of ideas would be democratized!
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- I think more than some. Wonder what that says about us and about the future of writing.posted by willrich on 2009-06-07
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English 202 Re-Design Penn State
Using the Blogs at Penn State platform and Digital Commons studios, students are creating online portfolios, using multimedia to enhance assignments, and reflecting on digital literacy through individual and course blogs. What was a paper resume is now an interactive professional Web space.
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Using the Blogs at Penn State platform and Digital Commons studios, students are creating online portfolios, using multimedia to enhance assignments, and reflecting on digital literacy through individual and course blogs. What was a paper resume is now an interactive professional Web space.
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Practically Speaking - Small Businesses Take Tentative Steps Toward Online Networking - NYTimes.com
For more than a year, the Brighter Planet team has been blogging, Tweeting, friending on Facebook and initiating viral marketing campaigns intended to help consumers reduce their carbon footprints.
While most small businesses have not yet embraced social networks as Brighter Planet has, their numbers are growing. According to the April index of Discover Small Business Watch, compiled by Discover Financial Services, 38 percent of owners were a member of an online social networking community, up from 22 percent in October 2007.
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For more than a year, the Brighter Planet team has been blogging, Tweeting, friending on Facebook and initiating viral marketing campaigns intended to help consumers reduce their carbon footprints.
While most small businesses have not yet embraced social networks as Brighter Planet has, their numbers are growing. According to the April index of Discover Small Business Watch, compiled by Discover Financial Services, 38 percent of owners were a member of an online social networking community, up from 22 percent in October 2007.
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Last week, Shustir.com introduced its virtual marketplace, which was started by two former Lehman Brothers colleagues, Shu Kim and Khanh Pham. “It matters where you spend,” Ms. Kim said, echoing the site’s catchphrase. The goal, they said, is to keep Main Street U.S.A. alive.
“We want you to spend with small businesses,” Ms. Pham said. “By doing so, 80 percent of the money goes directly back to the community.”
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The Impending Demise of the University
Universities are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge sweeney both as a container and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people.
Meanwhile on campus, there is fundamental challenge to the foundational modus operandi of the University — the model of pedagogy. Specifically, there is a widening gap between the model of learning offered by many big universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up digital best learn.
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are finally losing their monopoly on higher learning, as the web inexorably
becomes the dominant infrastructure for knowledge sweeney both as a container
and as a global platform for knowledge exchange between people.
Meanwhile
on campus, there is fundamental challenge to the foundational modus operandi of the University — the model of pedagogy. Specifically, there
is a widening gap between the model of learning offered by many big
universities and the natural way that young people who have grown up
digital best learn.- I really hate blanket statements like this though I think it is true for some schools.posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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lecture, with the professor standing at the podium in front of a large
group of students, is still a fixture of university life on many campuses.
It's a model that is teacher-focused, one-way, one-size-fits-all and
the student is isolated in the learning process. Yet the students,
who have grown up in an interactive digital world, learn differently.
Schooled on Google and Wikipedia, they want to inquire, not rely on
the professor for a detailed roadmap. They want an animated conversation,
not a lecture. They want an interactive education, not a broadcast
one that might have been perfectly fine for the Industrial Age, or
even for boomers. These students are making new demands of universities,
and if the universities try to ignore them, they will do so at their
peril.- Nothing really new here, is there?posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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theater, a pilot in a jumbo cockpit, a engineer designing an automobile
in a CAD system — they would surely marvel at how technologies had
transformed the knowledge work. But if they walked into a university
lecture hall, they would no doubt be comforted that some things have
not changed.- Ugh. You're kidding me right? We can't come up with something original?posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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My researchAdd Sticky Note
suggests these critics are wrong. Growing up digital has changed the
way their minds work in a manner that will help them handle the challenges
of the digital age. They're used to multi-tasking, and have learned
to handle the information overload. They expect a two-way conversation.
What's more, growing up digital has encouraged this generation to be
active and demanding enquirers. Rather than waiting for a trusted professor
to tell them what's going on, they find out on their own on everything
from Google to Wikipedia.- This is where he really riles me. Most of this is fiction. And I wish he would use the correct adverb. Sheesh.posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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The professorsAdd Sticky Note
who remain relevant will have to abandon the traditional lecture, and
start listening and conversing with the students — shifting from a
broadcast style and adopting an interactive one. Second, they should
encourage students to discover for themselves, and learn a process
of discovery and critical thinking instead of just memorizing the professor's
store of information. Third, they need to encourage students to collaborate
among themselves and with others outside the university. Finally, they
need to tailor the style of education to their students' individual
learning styles.- Again, anything new here?posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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Smart but impatient, they like to collaborate and they rejectAdd Sticky Note
one-way lectures, he notes.- Didn't he just say that one way lectures online was a threat?posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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One strategy being used in this program is called just-in-time teaching;Add Sticky Note
it is a teaching and learning strategy that combines the benefits of
Web-based assignments and an active-learner classroom where courses are
customized to the particular needs of the class. Warm-up questions, written
by the students, are typically due a few hours before class, giving the
teacher an opportunity to adjust the lesson "just in time," so
that classroom time can be focused on the parts of the assignments that
students struggled with. Harvard professor Eric Mazur, who uses this
approach in his physics class, puts it this way:
"Education is so much more than the mere transfer of information.
The information has to be assimilated. Students have to connect the information
to what they already know, develop mental models, learn how to apply
the new knowledge, and how to adapt this knowledge to new and unfamiliar
situations.- Better, but still not original thinking here.posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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Universities should be places to learn, not to teach.Add Sticky Note
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Yet the individual learning model is foreign territory for most Net Geners,Add Sticky Note
who have grown up collaborating, sharing, and creating together online.- This is what he wants us to believe, but for the vast majority of kids, they haven't been doing much of this at all.posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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at Kansas State University, it is a stinging indictment of the education
delivered by standard large-scale American university.- Oddly, this was the one video of Wesch's that I really didn't like.posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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Anyone in the world can watch the entire series of lectures for someAdd Sticky Note
30 courses, such as Walter Lewin's ever-popular introductory physics
course, which gets viewed by over 40,000 people a month on OpenCourseWear,
MIT's version of intellectual philanthropy. Universities worldwide have
joined the movement.- But why would they if they couldn't connect and collaborate and co-create etc? Or are we just expecting them to figure that out?posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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But a credential and even the prestige of a university is rooted inAdd Sticky Note
its effectiveness as a learning institution. If these institutions
are shown to be inferior learning environments to other alternatives
their capacity to credential will surely diminish.- I do wonder about this. How will credentialing change in a transparent world?posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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The university campus has been "a wonderful place for young peopleAdd Sticky Note
to go for four years to get older", as Princeton sociologist Marvin
Dressler told me a decade ago. "While they're there they're bound
to learn something" he said.- Nice quoteposted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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The video lectures allow students to absorb the course contentAdd Sticky Note
online — whenever it's convenient — and then get together to tinker,
invent new things, or discuss the material.- Would love to know how much this happens absent the physical space.posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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Why should a university student be restrictedAdd Sticky Note
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"We're more like health care. We're challenged by obstructive, non-market-basedAdd Sticky Note
business models. We're also burdened by a sense that doctor knows best,
or professor knows best."- That's a stretch though, too.posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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The digital world, which has trained young minds to inquire and collaborate,Add Sticky Note
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And sparks are flying today. There is a huge generational clash
emerging in these institutions. It turns out that the critique of the
university from years ago were ideas in waiting — waiting for the new
web and a new generation of digital natives who could effectively challenge
the old model.
- This I agree with.posted by willrich on 2009-06-04
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Twittering in Church, with the Pastor's O.K. - TIME
There's a time and place for technology, and most houses of worship still say it's not at morning Mass. But instead of reminding worshippers to silence their cell phones, a small but growing number of churches across the country are following Voelz's lead and encouraging people to integrate text-messaging into their relationship with God.
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There's a time and place for technology, and most houses of worship still say it's not at morning Mass. But instead of reminding worshippers to silence their cell phones, a small but growing number of churches across the country are following Voelz's lead and encouraging people to integrate text-messaging into their relationship with God.
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The Fischbowl: We Can Do This. We Should Do It.
We're living in the time of the most significant change in human expression in human history. [Great videos from Richard Miller at Rutgers with addtl comments by Karl Fisch.]
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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live -- Printout -- TIME
Put those three elements together — social networks, live searching and link-sharing — and you have a cocktail that poses what may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google's near monopoly in searching. At its heart, Google's system is built around the slow, anonymous accumulation of authority: pages rise to the top of Google's search results according to, in part, how many links point to them, which tends to favor older pages that have had time to build an audience. That's a fantastic solution for finding high-quality needles in the immense, spam-plagued haystack that is the contemporary Web. But it's not a particularly useful solution for finding out what people are saying right now, the in-the-moment conversation that industry pioneer John Battelle calls the "super fresh" Web. Even in its toddlerhood, Twitter is a more efficient supplier of the super-fresh Web than Google. If you're looking for interesting articles or sites devoted to Kobe Bryant, you search Google. If you're looking for interesting comments from your extended social network about the three-pointer Kobe just made 30 seconds ago, you go to Twitter.
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Put those three elements together — social networks, live searching and link-sharing — and you have a cocktail that poses what may amount to the most interesting alternative to Google's near monopoly in searching. At its heart, Google's system is built around the slow, anonymous accumulation of authority: pages rise to the top of Google's search results according to, in part, how many links point to them, which tends to favor older pages that have had time to build an audience. That's a fantastic solution for finding high-quality needles in the immense, spam-plagued haystack that is the contemporary Web. But it's not a particularly useful solution for finding out what people are saying right now, the in-the-moment conversation that industry pioneer John Battelle calls the "super fresh" Web. Even in its toddlerhood, Twitter is a more efficient supplier of the super-fresh Web than Google. If you're looking for interesting articles or sites devoted to Kobe Bryant, you search Google. If you're looking for interesting comments from your extended social network about the three-pointer Kobe just made 30 seconds ago, you go to Twitter.
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Daniel Goleman (Ecological Intelligence) Interview with Bill Moyer
BILL MOYERS: When I finished your book, I wrote down what I took to be your message. Here it is. The things we buy and use come usually with a hidden price tag. And if we don't read that hidden price tag our children and grandchildren face a disaster. Fair enough?
DANIEL GOLEMAN: I think that's well put. The sad fact is that what we see in the store, what we put in our homes, what we use every day, all those objects, all those friendly products that we're so used to, has a hidden legacy which has to do with their impacts on the environment, on our health, on ecosystems, on the people that made them, that starts from the moment that they start to extract the ingredients. Manufacture through transport, through use, disposal. At every stage in that progression, over the life cycle of a product, there's a new methodology. It's called life cycle assessment.
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BILL MOYERS: When I finished your book, I wrote down what I took to be your message. Here it is. The things we buy and use come usually with a hidden price tag. And if we don't read that hidden price tag our children and grandchildren face a disaster. Fair enough?
DANIEL GOLEMAN: I think that's well put. The sad fact is that what we see in the store, what we put in our homes, what we use every day, all those objects, all those friendly products that we're so used to, has a hidden legacy which has to do with their impacts on the environment, on our health, on ecosystems, on the people that made them, that starts from the moment that they start to extract the ingredients. Manufacture through transport, through use, disposal. At every stage in that progression, over the life cycle of a product, there's a new methodology. It's called life cycle assessment.
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that information is now available to you and me while we're shopping.
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Hacking Education Transcript
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what's the heart of education? What isAdd Sticky Note
the irreducible minimum? In public education, I
think we've lost sight of it. The heart of
education is what happens in the hearts and minds
of individual learners. You cannot make anybody
learn anything that they're not interested in
learning, if they don't see and feel the relevance
of it.- Great way to focus the question. What is the core, and what are we doing that gets us further away from the core, which is individual learners learning and loving learning. Isn't education almost solely about fostering a love of learning? Anything else is secondary.posted by willrich on 2009-05-25
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He said, people graduating from schoolAdd Sticky Note
now, their goal should not be to get a job; their
goal should be to create jobs for other people.- Great quote.posted by willrich on 2009-05-25
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It's kind of an intrinsic reward of theAdd Sticky Note
group to be smarter and to be more passionate in
some way, to get to Sir Ken's idea, that the group
really rewarded people who really got obsessed with
something and has something, whether writing plays
or write short stories or doing art or whatever it
was.- How do we foster obsession?posted by willrich on 2009-05-25
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And I think that what we are reallyAdd Sticky Note
trying to talk about is learning as the space of
innovation and transformation and not so much
education. Because we see innovation in the space
of learning all over the place today, in terms of
how people are coming to learn things, how people
are sharing information. We are not seeing
innovation in the space of education because of its
institutionalization.
So, I think that the space that we
really want to begin to understand is how learning
itself is a form of currency today for young
people. It's actually valued, and this is what you
were talking about.
Learning is actually valued in very
interesting ways by young people today; not so much
in school, but in spaces outside of school where
they're really learning how to do things. And it
goes to the conversation of, if one of our goals is
to allow people to move into a future; that they
are able to learn, able to adapt to any kind of
change, whether they're changing jobs, whether
they're changing what they're passionate about.
That, I think, is the best thing that we can do for
people is to give them that kind of skill set.- This is a pretty shifted thought, that learning is currency for kids today for things outside of school.posted by willrich on 2009-05-25
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But if you talk to educators they sayAdd Sticky Note
they're in the learning business, but it is,
actually, they are not.- Begs the question as to what is the difference between knowledge and learning. Learning is a process, knowledge is a thing? An event?posted by willrich on 2009-05-25
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This is something that'sAdd Sticky Note
available to a nine-year-old that wasn't available
before; that nonlocal reputation, that global
reputation of a niche reputation on the web.- I would argue that's something we have to help kids cultivate.posted by willrich on 2009-05-25
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We pooh-pooh this often as likeAdd Sticky Note
something that's fully irrelevant education, but we
all, as adults, rely on those skills, those very
social skills they've gotten us into this room,
that we have to learn.- Great point.posted by willrich on 2009-05-25
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And even if they do, they don't reallyAdd Sticky Note
have the cultural ability to take the stance,
express themselves, connect to people below, above,
and on the side, and build stuff.- This is a huge deal. How do we teach kids to participate in these spaces in ways that express, communicate, connect and build?posted by willrich on 2009-05-25
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So, basically, it just took the raw
material that's already on YouTube, pop on the
videos, put a little technology layer on top of it,
and they were teaching millions of Chinese kids how
to speak English. -
Learning is
ecological, and it happens in many places
simultaneously. -
How do
we enable just connectors between some of these
different spaces, whether they're content
connectors or mentor connectors or even a
validation that what a kid might be doing in an
after-school space is relevant and valid within an
in-school space? -
Our model of learning
has to exist within that certain networked idea, as
well. -
but the credentialing system is
one that hasn't changed at all. -
I learned how to be obsessed with
things. -
So, how do you teach kids to be
obsessed with things? I think one of the
advantages we have with technology and particularly
with games is that they have built-in structure,
almost to a fault, as most parents would say.
They have an addictive quality where people will
just immerse themselves and become obsessed with
them, something in that structure. -
The product is becomingAdd Sticky Note
the credential. In the old days, I went to school,
I got a grade, I presented the grade and I got a
job. And now, what happens is, you create this
game; and that game is what creates your
reputation. And there's no grade there.- This, if true, is huge.posted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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And if you think about the Web as a
medium in a way, that's the way people are creating
their own credentials. -
And I think it's fundamentally changing
what we need from education, to Scott's question.
What we need is to become familiar with the tools
that we use to promote our ideas and really,
basically, to search engine optimize our products
or the things we created. -
There are several people in the room that areAdd Sticky Note
really working very hard to create an assessment
that relates to imagination, innovation,
creativity, coming up with an idea, beginning a
project from the beginning, middle, end; delivering
this in digital form, sharing, exposing,
presenting.- Is this the process that we need to assess? Is this learning to learn?posted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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When I've taught classes, I
throw this out for somebody else to use, tell the
students you can't get an A from the teacher. The
best you can get from the teacher is a B+, because
the teacher-student grading relationship is
corrupting.
So, if you want to get an A, you've got
to get somebody outside. And in a video game
class, you got to get 10,000 downloads as an A. I
would suggest in journalism, somebody's doing
entrepreneurial journalism, that you've got to get
a certain amount of blog readers per a month to get
an A and -- -
Technology does enable us
to bring education everywhere. -
we used to consider the teachers as
the source of the knowledge. Well, I'm not sure if
they ever were, but definitely they're not right
now. And the technology enables the kids to go and
get all the information that they need outside of
the classroom. -
We can do this completely revolutionary
thing in giving a student a pretest and then
pulling out the materials that they already know
and creating a personalized path instead of
four weeks training, maybe, let's say, two and a
half or maybe, let's say, three weeks in one and a
half. Maybe you finish the course in a four-week
period instead of the whole semester.
The idea then of a pre-test, based on
what the students already know, is older than dirt,
probably. But this is one place that technology
gives us a leverage point. With something as
simple as aligning the assessment with the content
and the standard in the middle to connect them to
each other. Pre-assessment, pass the standard, and
I'll just pull the content out to build path for
you. -
Do I want the doctor
who is most certified, or the doctor who has the
most followers on Twitter? -
And the way I think it
leverages fantastic is, terrific, passionate
teachers. If I have passionate teacher Ph.D.s in
La Crosse, Wisconsin, who love CFAs.
With a credit card and a broadband
connection, you can be anywhere in the world, and
start learning from them in a minute. It's
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technology, not just as technologies themselves but
within that sort of ecology of how you actually
make this leverage work and to make it work for
you. Teachers are critical for this.
It is actually not learning from
teachers in another environment, but figuring out
how teachers can give you and work with you to
understand how you engage with these technologies
to do something important.- To do something important...that is the key now.posted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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The learning environment becomes
transparent, and teachers are extremely important.
It can be a teacher that is physically with us in
the room, or it can be people who are coming from
outside of the room because of the network.
So, it is the network environment that
is transparent with tools that allow you to build
and construct digital media, to learn through
design, to learn by teaching; you teach and you
learn in the same environment and there is the
expert guidance. -
They need to learn how to reflect on their own
knowledge or lack of it and to reflect on their own
learning. And that is actually something which is
not explicit anywhere into the curriculum or often
in the classroom, but is an essential outlearning
outcome, if you will. -
Talking about learning
through technology. It is the practice, a large
part. It's not just the information push. It is
the practices around, what you do by navigating, by
negotiating, interpreting, evaluating and playing
with that information. And that's where it plays
an important role for whether it's the mentor or
the teacher or the staff or whatever term you use
when -- -
But how
do we give parents the tools which they can
actually engage with their kids across language,
across cultural barriers, across all these other
things, so you can make the partnerships much more
obvious?
It's not even just about how do we
intercept learning with directly with kids, but
affecting the larger ecology. And there's a lot
more opportunity for technology there, first and
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But it doesn't by itself change the...Add Sticky Note
it expands the possibilities for active
information, making things in connection with other
people. But what the real role of teachers,
mentors, parents, is to guide -- how do you go
about active information and making things? That's
not obvious.- How does my teacher learn? My parents?posted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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I think we're going
to have a marketplace model for education where the
student is in control of their education and they
determine who is going to educate them, when, where
and how, and the educational system can be built
into all of that. -
It is now possible for the learners to define what
are the goals they want to achieve; and end up with
a personalized curriculum that meets those goals,
and it may meet the accreditation goals, too, or
not. But the access is very valuable both in its
own right also in terms of metaschool's skill of
encouraging learners to define their learning goals
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there, your help there, your credential over here.- A piecemeal approach to education. This is what I've been talking about.posted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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I think, to me, as a
teacher on the one hand, the technology
offers...access to amazing teachers in any subject.
I can find AN online facilitator. -
Open source, openAdd Sticky Note
courseware. It doesn't make the university tuition
free. Basically, everything that is available for
free. So, we take the content that is available
online, and we take open -- we use open source
technology.
And I think that what is actually very
unique about what we do is, we apply social
networking into that. So, there are not going to
be teachers in the classroom. Students are going
to teach each other. If you are teaching -- and
there will be a forum where they can get help or
professors. However, in the classroom itself, the
studies will be through discussion between the
students with each other on the topics.- University of the People. Wondering how this is assessed.posted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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That's where ourAdd Sticky Note
partnerships come in. So, we have a partnership
with these school universities, so kids -- and
we're working there with sets of academics that are
interested in having young people come for work
with graduate students. And then we have a set of
industry partnerships where kids can --
particularly in eighth and ninth grade, they're
going to have to sort of work in groups. So, we
can't sort of send sixth graders or seventh graders
out into the city. But we're looking at kinds of
programs that can sit inside some different
institutions that will support kids in that sort of
internship. So, it has to do with partnerships and
we've started trying to build those early on- Quest to Learn School built on gaming curricula in NYCposted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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No. It is quite open and
internships may be virtual. They may be online
where kids are having a chance in some online
communities to intern in a virtual world, for
example, learn something about that.
MR. RESNICK: To make the walls a little
bit more permeable so that it gives off a portal
for the community; it could be part of the
community public? -
So, the other piece that
we're having to work on which has come up a lot
lately is the assessment issue. So, we have
received some opening of permissions from the State
to develop an alternative assessment model that
begins to look at competencies that can be granted
both within industry by academic institutions and
by other kinds of individuals. So, that's
something that will happen over time.
And our goal is to try to say kids
should be able to get credit by doing work in lots
of different kind of phases, not just within --
within an academic institution so that there would
be a process by which people will be able to be
considered accreditable or to be able to give a
credit in some sense; yes. -
Yes. An alternate modelAdd Sticky Note
around competencies. So, we have a model where
kids are earning badges. And so, it's some sort of
a portfolio model that by the time they graduate,
that the evidence of participation and of certain
kinds of excellence become a measure of their
success as a graduate.- This is where it gets really interesting, I think. Creating routes to mastery. "Every child becoming an expert in something they feel passionate about." I want that.posted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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es, exactly. Our whole
goal is to let kids be a master of something by the
time they graduate. We think that's a huge goal,
to allow every child to feel that they have become
an expert in something that they feel passionate
about.
And ideally, be supported around what
we would call "functional literacies" and we were
talking about within this group reading, writing,
math; yes, absolutely. But the other stuff, kids
become what they want to become and build what they
want to build with their lives, based on how they
gather knowledge and utilize it. So, that's the
model that we're aiming at. -
So, we've been thinking about notAdd Sticky Note
having grade levels. So, we're having sort of
phases that kids can move at their own pace, their
own pace within.- Wow.posted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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So, the curriculum is disseminated
through a game-like structure. So, kids are given
a ten-week mission, and that mission drops them
into a complex problem space and then that mission
is broken down into a series of smaller quests that
allows kids to build skills and knowledge in order
to solve that problem. -
Yes. And so, our curriculum
is co-developed by teachers and game designers.
So, that was the other model that we're looking at,
that it may be a new type of collaboration that
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network that we built for the school called "Be Me"
and it's the idea that we want kids to play around
with multiple identities and to recognize that
they, at any one time, may be taking on different
identities. There's an "at model" in it called
"The Expertise Exchange."
We're also trying to get kids to
understand what they are experts in, what they want
to be experts in, what they're not good at. So,
this notion of how do you find other people to work
with, other kinds of mentors and that kind of
thing. So, the multiple identity thing is a big
one. The notion of the curriculum -- and then I'll
shut up because I don't want to dominate here -- is
allowing kids to step into identities.- Teaching multiple identities. Nice.posted by willrich on 2009-05-26
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So, one thing we found with kids is
that the ability to give them that -- the idea to
give them the ability to share what they have done
is super critical to them and to make choices about
who they're sharing it with.
We're trying to build in mechanisms by
which they can export things that they were doing
in the space for more public kind of space; whether
if it's public in a sense of their small group of
friends or their parents or whether it's to the
world. So, the publication notion is a big one in
the school about outward facing. -
And so, I think we found that it's
really about stripping, stripping away and
understanding what, who are the participants in any
learning moment. So, trying not to get to
over-design what the teacher does, not to
over-design what the student does and understand
that the student brings things, the teacher brings
things. -
And I think we talked a lot about these
ideas today, finding things that you need on Google
or in your community, and finding -- gain experts
or content experts or programming experts, design
experts on this network that we are putting and
that are starting to take each other, all for free
and available through the governor that is
financing it. -
There's a global revolution
online. But I don't want a global revolution. I
want to share with the person down the hall. -
Yes. I was shocked. When I
was teaching sixth-grade social studies, and I
said, Well, I don't really know what I'm doing with
that, so I'm trying to find another middle school
social studies teacher in Georgia that knows what
they're doing. It just doesn't exist.
Like, literally, you have to guess,
scour blogs. It just doesn't exist. So, the
ability to find other people teaching what you are
teaching, being able to have some sort of dialogue.
There's a massive need for it. -
So, it is a fundamentally, teachers
want to share and, like any artist, want to share
and they want to be recognized. So, we're trying
to use the Web to recognize. And if they were
teachers, our Web will target rock stars. -
And it is really interesting that,
basically, it's a growing group, made up of an
economically driven -- I don't know. There's so
many people that are turning their passions,
supporting their passions by teaching them. And
so, they may have a day job, but they are finding a
way to make that leap out of a job that they don't
like into maybe they're teaching something that
they do like as a way of supporting -- doing what
they like. -
And is there a reputation
system?
MR. MILLER: Yes. Basically,
endorsements. One thing we found is that teachers
were very wary of five-star systems around
teaching, because they think it is a bad
relationship with a student and that that's
basically subjective. So, teachers are suspicious,
we found, when we talked to them of objective
representation systems when it comes to teaching. -
What we are trying to build we think isAdd Sticky Note
a massive marketplace around things that people are
passionate about. And so, a lot of what was being
discussed today, I hope you all figured it out, and
it's sort of like the learning up to age 22, 23,
when you get the confidence to go and learn
whatever it is that you are excited about.- Interesting perspectiveposted by willrich on 2009-05-27
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It is really is about learning --Add Sticky Note
that's the difference, the accreditation issue
isn't something we're trying to tackle. We don't
really go after the college education or even the
grades K to 12.- This is really key. If you can do something, do it transparently so others can find you, do it well so others can rate you, you don't need the traditional creds (?)posted by willrich on 2009-05-27
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what's like going to come -- we'reAdd Sticky Note
going to start realizing that we and our kids are
just realizing that if they're not going to get it
in school, they'll have to get it somewhere.- Quotableposted by willrich on 2009-05-27
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And it's pretty similar to
us. Our three main categories are crafts, music,
languages and arts. But what surprises us is, kind
of sustainable environmental stuff. That really
seems to be that passionate people -- the teaching
people about environment and the sustainability
that we haven't expected. -
Anybody can start a class in whatever
they're passionate about. -
I absolutely can, becauseAdd Sticky Note
right now we often use Craig's List, honestly. For
us, it's economical. And oftentimes, if we are
looking for a Spanish teacher -- we've gone to
Craig's List to find someone good at philosophy --
like somebody would come in and talk with the child
about philosophy --- Using Craig's list to find teachers...hmmm.posted by willrich on 2009-05-27
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But to relate to the other question of
what takes off in a network, we realize there is a
small network of innovators and it relates to some
of what I have said. They really need to figure
out how to create these innovative things that they
are willing to jump in and trying to take a risk
and connect it to what they call the content
standards that -- the things that are out there. -
I want to say a thing or two
about the Open High School in Utah. And we talked
a little bit this morning about ways we're using
technology. Open High School of Utah is an open
charter school. And in our charter, we committed
ourselves to exclusively using open educational
resources.
So, in terms of teachers sharing items
as opposed to sharing lesson plans and resources,
we've done a complete textbook replacement, all the
material on everything you need to run the course
is what we're providing with open source for
everyone. -
And also, I have a mission, not to
scale our individual school out to the world; but
when there's a completely open curriculum available
and a charter application documents and budgets and
things are available, other people just pick up and
start these schools. We don't have to be involved
and the curriculum is free, things like that.
In addition to the personalization and
the individualization I was talking about earlier
today, the point of open source. -
And that's a question that I don't know
when it comes to education. It seems to me pretty
clear that the way that kids are still being taught
these days, and the fact that there's a computer
that's over there in the corner of the classroom,
but that's only the extent to which technology may
play a role, it sort of seems like it is broken to
me.
And I feel like, as more and more
people understand that something isn't right, that
we are using technology all throughout the day but
our students aren't using it on a hands on way in
the classroom; then it opens up a real opportunity
for starting integrating office tools that people
are starting to develop now, actually in the
classroom, in students' hands. -
Until there's a cultural
movement, until it's understood in a broader
content that our schools aren't working. -
In the State of Utah, I canAdd Sticky Note
tell you, if we got this curriculum rolled out.
And the kids will get it this fall and are going to
make a YP at the end of the year. The next summer,
there's conversations about what to do with the
textbooks we have to replace and with the money
supposed to be spent on curriculum?
And there's a completely open source
curriculum, and we can show kids YP when they use
it. It kind of forces a lot of really interesting
conversations and that is a very strong secondary
goal.- So this is a fascinating scenario...when the open source school makes AYP...posted by willrich on 2009-05-27
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I do think, my sense as a general
consensus of the public, is they recognize that
healthcare as a crisis, energy is in crisis. I
don't think there's as much of an understanding of
what this group has that education needs to be
hacked. -
Again, it's a matter of
timing. I go back to the fact that the economy is
crap right now. You have an opportunity to
actually do a high-prestige, high-status shift
within the talent pool. -
I think that is the fundamental
issue, sort of the detriment to creating a good
school culture in K through 12. And I think a good
school culture is key to the teachings and
learning. And so, I think the only way to hack the
monopoly is through competitions and creating good
schools and giving parents a choice. -
And in general, my take from Fred's
point was the rock star. The rock star teacher
isn't about teaching at Yankee Stadium like the
story over here and making a million bucks. It's
about having their reputation in the teaching world
be the rock star, because people are using their
lesson plan, using their -- -
But I think the
cost of virtual, even virtually nonphysical
professional development and training for and
innovation, when you have to take -- all the range,
from not very qualified or talented to the most
talented and faster learner type of instructors or
teachers to really scale is the largest cost.
You said "people," but I don't know if
you meant that. Even if you run a one hour once a
week session for people to come and learn how to
teach and learn in a new way in the system, even if
they don't end up in a physical space; that's from
my analysis of budget in the last three years when
we were running Globaloria, is the largest cost
item. -
On the people side, whyAdd Sticky Note
don't you just require as a requirement to graduate
high school, you have to teach other people. You
show that you've learned best when you're teaching
something to other people. So, just require high
school students to teach --- Cool idea. Every student is a teacher...setting up their own classrooms, writing their own curricula, etc.posted by willrich on 2009-05-27
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I think that's where the real
paradigm shift is here now, where people can learn
from other experts regardless of their age,
regardless of their background, and be judged or
assessed on what they actually take in or what they
put out. -
you begin to work around the
limitations of the classroom and you find a tutor,
and Fred's hired a guy to teach his kids how to
code. -
I always ask, why doesAdd Sticky Note
education seem to be the last thing we're going to
get a handle on? Technology seems really well used
in the corporate sector, in health corporations,
the military obviously knows how to do it, politics
is starting to totally get it.
Why, when most of us are parents, we
care about education, why is it that technology and
education as a marriage is like the last?- I wonder this too.posted by willrich on 2009-05-27
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And I think the next teachers, to think
about teachers as innovators, innovators as
teachers in the relationship, the paradigm between
those two things.
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Child development experts have been raising alarms about the increasingly didactic, test-driven, and joyless course of early childhood education. “These practices, which are not well grounded in research, violate long-established principles of child development and good teaching,” states the Alliance’s report. “It is increasingly clear that they are compromising both children’s health and their long-term prospects for success in school.”
Numerous studies have shown that children who engage in complex socio-dramatic play develop higher levels of thinking, stronger language skills, better social skills, more empathy, and more imagination than children who do not play in this way. They are also less aggressive and show more self-control. Play also lowers stress levels in children.
Nevertheless, child-driven play has fallen out of favor in the U.S. Many people believe that kindergartners need to settle down and engage in serious learning. They see play as a waste of time, or worse, a descent into chaos.
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The authors of Crisis in the Kindergarten, Alliance directors Edward Miller and Joan Almon, argue that the disappearance of kindergarten play is part of a larger societal problem. “Play is one of the vital signs of health in children,” they write. “We do not know the long-term consequences of the loss of play in early childhood, but this has become a concern for pediatricians and psychologists.”
They report evidence of significant increases in behavioral problems and school failure among kindergartners. They question unrealistic standards that are developmentally beyond many young children, forcing teachers to spend long hours trying to meet them, and leading to the wrongful labeling of normal child behavior and learning patterns as “misbehavior, attention disorders, or learning disabilities.”
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