Category: creativity
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Podcast122: The Case for 1:1 and School 2.0 (DRAFT)
This podcast is a draft recording for your review of a presentation I’ll share live with others at the Oklahoma Technology Association’s annual conference in Oklahoma City, and at the Texas Computer Education Association’s conference in Austin, Texas next week. My goal for the presentation is to share a vision for one to one learning…
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Vista is out, but do educators care?
Well, Windows Vista is now on the market, but my question is: Do any educators care? I don’t know of any midwest U.S. school districts planning to make the transition to Vista anytime soon. In an interview with CNN this morning, Bill Gates said: People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.…
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Education is a process, not a passive event
I ran across this quotation in Daniel Grego’s article “Building a New Vision of Public Education”: “Education” is the process by which people become responsibly mature members of their communities. Or put another way, “education” is the process by which a community points the learning of its members towards its conception of “the good.” It…
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NCLB, local control, end of course exams, and educating shepherds instead of sheep
How in the world can President Bush claim that NCLB has supported the ideal of local control in U.S. schools? Quite the opposite: NCLB has created a direct lever of control from Washington D.C. into public classrooms all over the nation which were previously controlled primarily by local school board policy and state education policy.…
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Singing “Not on the Test”
This is a sad but accurate commentary on our current state of affairs in K-12 education in the United States: NPR’s January 1st show: A Song for Students: ‘Not on the Test.’ If you’re looking for a short (like 2 minute) attention-getter for teachers to start a professional development session or conference presentation, this song…
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Rules for the Revolution (podcasting that is!)
I discovered the Creative Commons Podcasting Legal Guide today, which looks like a superb resource for educational podcasters as well as others. In his forward to the guide, Dr. Lawrence Lessig writes: …my hope for this Guide (which in addition to copyright addresses publicity rights and trademark law) is that it will begin to make…
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Southwest digital storytelling contest
Southwest Airlines is sponsoring an open digital storytelling contest for a new ad campaign through February 20th. Their website actually has the following advertisement hosted by YouTube embedded on it: The poster of this video to YouTube has been a YouTube member for 2 months, self-reports his/her age as 26, and has two other videos…
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Innovation and Gaming: Keys to the future
I heartily agree with David Williamson Shaffer, an education science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who was quoted in the Washington Post’s article “Give a child a video game — and maybe a job” last week saying: …young people in the United States today are being prepared for standardized jobs in a world that…
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Assess schools on a happiness and engagement index?
I’ve been thinking lately about the DIFFERENT educational policies we need at state and federal levels to encourage a focus on ENGAGEMENT, creativity, fun and authentic learning in schools. (Add to that list “21st century literacy/workforce skills” too.) Building on those thoughts, I posted the following as a comment on the Tech Chicks Tips post,…