Educators in all contexts need to open the door to authentic teaching and learning. Conversation, complexity, and messy assessment should be hallmarks of our classrooms and our schools. This presentation was shared as a keynote address at an educational leadership conference held in Fort Worth, Texas, on April 3, 2006.
Program Length: 1 hr, 34 min, 54 sec
File size: 22.8 MB
Show notes for this podcast include:
- Images of the doors to open: the modern door, the door that lets in light, the old door
- Commodore Computer image
- ClustrMaps
- Dr. David Jonassen and Complex Problem Solving
- Remembering the Holocaust
- Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken – 1915
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- IMAX – Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
- David Warlick’s Landmarks Blog Meister
- Global Voices
- Darren Kuropatwa’s Calculus Class Blog (Manitoba, Canada)
- Lucas Arts: Empire at War
- Stats on Kids and New Media from FETC
- Marc Prensky’s website
- “Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
- Science Education in the 21st Century: Using the Tools of Science to Teach Science by Dr. Carl Wieman
- Train image
- Save Darfur
- “Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools” by Jonathan Kozol
- Google Earth
- Avian Bird Flu (Nature Magazine coverage – includes like to Google Earth kml file)
- “A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age” by Daniel Pink
- Hedgehog Science Fair Enhanced Podcast
- My Google Earth social bookmarks
- Digital Citizenship info
- Digital Citizenship podcast interview with Mike Ribble
- Learning Is Messy – Blog
- NPR’s This I Believe
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3 responses to “Podcast49: Open the Door – Conversation, Complexity, and Messy Assessment”
Wesley,
Finally got around to listening today. I felt like I was in the audience. Wonderful presentation – thanks for sharing it! – Mark
Thanks, I had a great day of skiing in Maine, then drove the long drive home from the Mountain, Sugarloaf. I had the best professional development class, in the car, sunny day and the time flew! Thanks for the informative workshop. Keep posting, I’ll keep listening.Cheryl
Thanks for the feedback. I have heard from some folks that they want shorter podcasts, and I am going to get back to doing more in the 15-20 min range, but especially for people in the car or on a trip I am thinking it’s still good to have longer recordings. Glad to know you both listened and found it worthwhile.