Comments on: Join the conversations Monday to Redefine Teacher Education http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/12/04/join-the-conversations-monday-to-redefine-teacher-education/ Weblog of Wesley Fryer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Gary Stager http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/12/04/join-the-conversations-monday-to-redefine-teacher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-116543 Gary Stager Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:56:45 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3951#comment-116543 Am I the only one alarmed by how the same handful of high-tech industry corporate shills and unimaginative edtech standardistas are convened to solve every problem, real or imagined in the universe? I suppose there isn't too much room for alarm since this event is unlikely to produce anything more significant than the vague and profoundly unimaginative ISTE Standards or the happy talk of the Partnership for 21st Century Profits. Am I the only one alarmed by how the same handful of high-tech industry corporate shills and unimaginative edtech standardistas are convened to solve every problem, real or imagined in the universe?

I suppose there isn’t too much room for alarm since this event is unlikely to produce anything more significant than the vague and profoundly unimaginative ISTE Standards or the happy talk of the Partnership for 21st Century Profits.

]]> By: Karen French http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2009/12/04/join-the-conversations-monday-to-redefine-teacher-education/comment-page-1/#comment-112991 Karen French Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:32:54 +0000 http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=3951#comment-112991 Thanks so much for sharing the info on our Redefine Teacher Ed. Invitational Summit! Just to let folks know... the virtual summit section will go live on Monday morning. We'll kick it off with a live webcast of Tom Carroll's presentation on "Pathways to 21st Century Teaching" at 8:25 a.m. CST on 12/7/09. Some of the presentations will take place in rooms that don't have videoconferencing capabilities. Those will be posted to the site as soon as we can upload them to our YouTube channel. Thanks again! Karen French UT Austin Learning Technology Center Thanks so much for sharing the info on our Redefine Teacher Ed. Invitational Summit! Just to let folks know… the virtual summit section will go live on Monday morning. We’ll kick it off with a live webcast of Tom Carroll’s presentation on “Pathways to 21st Century Teaching” at 8:25 a.m. CST on 12/7/09.

Some of the presentations will take place in rooms that don’t have videoconferencing capabilities. Those will be posted to the site as soon as we can upload them to our YouTube channel.

Thanks again!

Karen French
UT Austin Learning Technology Center

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