Year: 2007
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Connecting learners with outside experts and each other
David Truss, inspired in part by Vicki Davis’ post “The Future Wave of School Volunteerism: Be the Textbook” and my post and podcast on “Connecting students with real-world experts” inspired by Texas Teacher Rachael Tucker, has created Fieldfindr: A space where teachers can meet global citizens who have skills that they are willing to contribute…
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Blue Web’n Yahoo Group
I learned today thanks to Alice Barr on the Jan 29th Bit by Bit Seedlings podcast that Blue Web’n is back in action sharing great K-12 educational websites as a Yahoo group. Blue Web’n is a free group and there are multiple ways you can receive updates. If you’re a RSS/feed person, an RSS feed…
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Rigor and testing in higher education praised in Texas
There isn’t much to be enthused about in Sunday’s report from Austin on Texas governor Rick Perry’s proposals to further regulate higher education. According to the article, “Perry’s higher education plan praised: A senior federal official calls governor’s plan for more aid, incentives and accountability ‘a bold step,” academic “rigor” is again being held up…
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Bloglines Imagewall backlash
Miguel Guhlin is calling for a boycott on Bloglines based on their newly announced “Image Wall” feature which dynamically updates a page with fresh, user-contributed/posted images from the web. Before you actually view the imagewall, users have to agree to the following AUP: As Audrey, the first commenter to Miguel’s post noted, clicking on any…
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From telegraph to email: Insights into the mind of President Lincoln
In the grand scheme of things, the telegraph was invented yesterday. On this Presidents’ holiday in the United States, I found the Washington Post article from last week, “Lincoln Online: The Telegraph as a Window Into the Mind of the 16th President” to be both insightful about President Lincoln as well as thought provoking when…
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The Case for 1:1
My presentation at TCEA 2007 a couple of weeks ago titled “The Case for 1:1 Computing in Schools” is now available on the “Conference Connections” section of the Apple Learning Interchange. The presentation’s duration was 50:02. This is available as an audio-only podcast. My sources for this presentation are available as a public Google notebook.…
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Connecting students with real-world experts
Two weeks ago at TCEA in Austin I had a great conversation with Rachael Tucker, who experienced this past fall the power of having her elementary class connected to a U.S. college student studying abroad for the semester in Guatemala. (The student happened to be her daughter.) Rachel pointed out that we need a “matching…
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Nuggets about the 21st century workforce
These are some thoughts I’ve collected this week that relate to 21st century workforce skills and our network economy. Communication devices like cell phones, laptops, and iPods increasingly enable LIFE. Reactive responses are generally inferior to proactive responses which are based on listening, planning, relationships and collaboration. There are unprecedented opportunities today for people to…
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Forward Thinking
These are my notes from a presentation by Stephen Harvill of Creative Ventures, titled “Forward Thinking: The Art of Peak Performance” from today. There is a big difference between the way fishermen and surfers think – fishermen always talk about the fish they CAUGHT – surfers are only thinking and caring about the NEXT WAVE…