I recently posted on a closed forum to a question someone asked about designing a school of the future. The following was my reply: When it comes to designing the school of the future, my encouragement would be to rethink school as well as technology use. I have been using a lens of thinking about
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The images from the deployment of the first laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project in Nigeria were posted to CNet April 11th. Amazing and heartwarming! I remember learning the song “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You” when I was growing up and going to school (Kindergarten through 3rd grade) in Lubbock,
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A wiki of resources for this session is available from the Connecting and Collaborating conference on April 20, 2007 in Holland, Michigan. I also recorded this session with Steve’s permission and will be posting it here as a podcast soon. My notes from Steve’s session: I was a 4th grade teacher, at some point I
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Steve Friedman wrote an article about his experiences in the virtual world “Second Life” (SL) in the article “Living the Life” in the April 2007 issue of Southwest Airlines’ Spirit Magazine. The article is probably the first introduction for many airline passengers to the virtual online environment which some believe will transform the way we
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This podcast is a recording of my keynote address on April 20, 2007, at the Connecting and Collaborating Conference sponsored by Ottawa Area Intermediate School District in Holland, Michigan. The keynote description was: Professional development is no longer limited by time and space constraints. Conversations and content now accessible via the Internet, the blogosphere, and
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Podcast145: Welcome to the Global Education Conversation [ 44:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1880)[Day 3 of my guest blogging…] U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings is under fire. Not only is the Department of Education dealing with the Reading First corruption scandal, challenges to the reauthorization of NCLB, and blowback from the recommendations of the Commission on the Future of Higher Education, apparently Secretary Spellings also is receiving
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eSchoolNews has a fantastic letter from the editor regarding the federal government’s recent evaluation of learning software for schools. The editor lambasts reporters’ overblown headlines, inappropriate and overbroad conclusions, and failure to adequately criticize and critically reflect upon the report and its accompanying publicity material. There was a recent dust-up at Dangerously Irrelevant as well
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I’ve got high schools on my mind. A high school teacher told me recently that her school allows students to try harder courses than they normally might take. For example, students might sign up for an Honors English class instead of a regular English class or an AP Government class instead of a normal Government class. These
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[Thanks, Wesley, for the opportunity to be a guest blogger at Moving at the Speed of Creativity! I’ll do my best to live up to the challenge of blogging for a larger audience than I typically get at Dangerously Irrelevant.] One of the key beliefs of many edubloggers and educational technology enthusiasts is that digital
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I’d like to welcome Dr. Scott McLeod to the guest blogger “author’s chair” on Moving at the Speed of Creativity! I’ll be presenting in Holland, Michigan several times later this week, and Scott is going to share his thoughts and perspectives here in my absence. Scott is the author of the outstanding blog “Dangerously Irrelevant,”
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More of my notes from the Networking Security lunch and learn on 4/17/2007 in Tulsa, to be published later as an audio podcast. Primary presenter is Mike Pennell from NewNet66. The five worst security mistakes end users make (according to the SANS institute) 1- failing to install anti-virus 2- opening unsolicited email attachments without verifying
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These are my notes from a network security presentation by Mike Pennell of NewNet66 in Oklahoma. I shared a brief overview for attendees and then turned over this presentation to Mike. I am recording this as an audio podcast and will post this subsequently in several parts. These are my notes from part 1 of
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I’ve shared some new thoughts on The Infinite Thinking Machine in a post titled, “Building cognitive maps for the read/write web.” Technorati Tags: education, learning, web2.0
Last week’s article “School Bus Becomes Mobile Classroom Thanks To iPods” in Arkansas may sound like a dream come true for technology-craving students, but I wonder if the underlying pedagogy of content transmission will ultimately permit the realization of the project’s idealistic goals? According to the article and accompanying video, the Sheridan school district in
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I received a question today about tracking links to particular websites. I’m sure there are multiple ways to do this, but two ways are to use Technorati and Google. From the search page or advanced search page of each site, you can form search queries with the following syntax. Copy the URL of the website
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This is a nightmare come true, today at Virginia Tech: A gunman is loose on campus. Stay in buildings until further notice. Stay away from all windows. The wikipedia article about the event currently reports at least 22 fatalities and 28 injuries. I had a conversation with someone recently on the issue of college campus
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In reviewing my Akismet suspected spam messages this evening I caught several comments that were incorrectly held in my moderation queue– most notable among them were South African educator Kobus van Wyk’s comment to my post “Choosing forgiveness and grace over hate and revenge” about the processes of reconciliation in South Africa including the Khanya
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I watched the 2005 documentary “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” last night, and want to share some reflections on the movie from the perspectives of a digital storyteller, concerned citizen/consumer, and educator. The video highlights multiple problems/challenges which are not unique to WalMart but are perhaps amplified because of the corporation’s size and
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Does anyone know if there are equivalent programs to CrazyTalk4 and iClone available for Macintosh? These are awesome software programs, and are used extensively by Enid Public Schools to create digital curriculum resources for teachers and students.
The sunrise over the Oklahoma plains this morning was breathtaking! I’ve been seeing the sun rise a lot this week, commuting to Enid from Edmond! Tomorrow’s my last day of facilitator training in Enid with our 2nd group of teachers for the Oklahoma Digital Centennial Project. Boy is this ever a fun group! Mike King,
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