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Tanzanian Schoolkids Tweet Their Thanks For Global Donations
"Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving celebration in November 2008 as a 48-hour celebration of gratitude and giving that successfully raised over $10,000 to build a classroom in Arusha, Tanzania. Imagined and built entirely by volunteers in six days, TweetsGiving was launched 2 days before the US Thanksgiving holiday, and quickly became the #1 trending topic on Twitter as thousands of grateful tweets from across the globe filled the stream, and hundreds of blogs...Epic Change invested the funds to build a classroom at a school founded by Tanzanian Epic Change fellow "Mama Lucy" Kamptoni, a woman who used to sell chickens and used her income to build a school that now serves over 300 children near her home in Arusha. In this classroom built from gratitude, the Twitter handles of donors are now painted on the walls."
TweetsGiving 2009 — About TweetsGiving
"Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving celebration in November 2008 as a 48-hour celebration of gratitude and giving that successfully raised over $10,000 to build a classroom in Arusha, Tanzania. Imagined and built entirely by volunteers in six days, TweetsGiving was launched 2 days before the US Thanksgiving holiday, and quickly became the #1 trending topic on Twitter as thousands of grateful tweets from across the globe filled the stream, and hundreds of blogs, from Mashable to VentureBeat, spread the story."
Once Upon A Teacher: From PLN to P-L-A-N for Moving our School Forward
Where are we now, in the last half of the year? We have over 50 blogs on our faculty. (Which can be found on our website) My principal blogs, our instructional coaches blog, we have a blog for new teachers, grade level teams blogging, resource teacher blogs, many classroom blogs, school mascot blog, a conference blog and a teacher recognition blog. It's a blog BONANZA! Teachers are also using wikis to share their work.
How does this all pertain to my PLN and the PLN of some of my colleagues? Almost EVERYTHING we learned to do was due to our PLN. We techno-evangelized and the work is being embraced on our faculty. Now I realize that this is not the case for many, but I think it sends an important message that CHANGE IS POSSIBLE!
Hacking Education
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One of the problems with the traditional school model of education is that the teachers are so uneven. My kids have amazing teachers who inspire them and push them to go beyond their perceived limits. I am so thankful for them. But they also have lazy teachers who bore them to death. We've all experienced this problem. I even had it at MIT and Wharton, two of the top schools in this country. We need some way for the kids and their parents to take control of who educates them.
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Add Sticky NoteThe existing large institutions in the world of education are the public and private schools, the colleges and universities, the testing institutions that inform them, and the unions and political system that support them. I want to help take all of them down and build something better in its place. I am not a fan of home schooling, but I understand it's appeal. I do not think I can teach my kids better than others. But I do think my kids and my wife and I need more choice of who educates them.
- Parents do need to be more empowered in this process. - on 2009-02-13
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AT LAST: TECHNOLOGY WILL CHANGE EDUCATION
Fourth, the web-based social networks in which the children now participate pose a new challenge. The educational system must join them, because it cannot fight them. So the question is not any more: "Will there be a revolution in education?" But "Will th
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There are two distinct steps that must be taken for real, lasting change to be occur – the first of letting go, and the next of embracing. We must let go of our standing preconceptions about what education is, and what it is not; what teachers are and wha
Borderland
- So whose web will it be? Will we drive or be driven? The question about the impact that Web2.0 will have on classrooms is ultimately limited by the vision of those who are running the show. - willrich on 2006-12-24
Dan Lake
- The Internet has removed "curriculum" as a filter, because "curriculum" tells people (kids and teachers) what is important to learn and, by ommission, what is not. - willrich on 2006-12-24
The Initiative on the Future of Journalism
- News21 looks at the nationwide debate over what do we have to do to feel safe -and what we’re willing to give up to get there. - willrich on 2006-12-24
We're All Apprenticing at Light Speed
- We are all improvising at some fundamental level; making it up as we go along. Instead of looking for someone with an answer to copy, we now have to participate in the invention process ourselves. - willrich on 2006-08-06
The Long Tail: The Probabilistic Age
- When professionals--editors, academics, journalists--are running the show, we at least know that it's someone's job to look out for such things as accuracy. But now we're depending more and more on systems where nobody's in charge. - willrich on 2006-08-06
Borderland
- So whose web will it be? Will we drive or be driven? The question about the impact that Web2.0 will have on classrooms is ultimately limited by the vision of those who are running the show. - willrich on 2006-08-06
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