Category: schoolreform
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The Thursday Folder and Worksheet Measured Learning
At the February 2009 Oklahoma Technology Association’s conference, keynote speaker Will Richardson told a story about the worksheets his own students bring home from their public school each week which resonated with me. Will said he’d contemplated keeping all the papers for an entire school year in a big stack, and then photographing them to…
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Visually summarizing ideas with Sean Griffin
This afternoon I attended the Oklahoma State Department of Education’s sponsored dropout summit. This was not only a great opportunity to experiment with UStream.tv integrated with CoverItLive, it also was a great chance to see an amazing visual artist at work. Sean Griffin (@sean_griffin on Twitter) is a Tulsa-based visual artist who specializes in helping…
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Podcast308: A Long Overdue Personal and Professional Life Update (March 2009)
If you listened to Podcast299: Dreaming of the Storychaser’s Peace Train, you might have wondered just want sort of disruptive changes were taking place in my life (this past January) which I was only able to reference obliquely in that podcast. In this 40 minute podcast recorded in the car this past week driving up…
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Big Chief Tablets ahead?
Could this road sign photograph have been taken in or near your community? [Original Image Link] Hat tip to Stephen King (@Kicode) for sharing the link to Atom Smasher’s “Highway Sign Generator.” Technorati Tags: school, reform, education, change, funny, humor, leadership
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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns (CoSN 2009 closing keynote)
These are my notes from the closing keynote at the 2009 CoSN conference, “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns,” presented by Dr. Clayton M. Christensen (via video) and Michael Horn (in person.) MY COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I WAS ABLE TO MEET AND VISIT BRIEFLY WITH…
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Empowering 21st Century Superintendents to Achieve a Culture of Transformation through Technology
These are my notes from the “Empowering 21st Century Superintendents to Achieve a Culture of Transformation through Technology” session at CoSN 2009 in Austin, Texas, on March 12, 2009. MY COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. UNFORTUNATELY I GOT TO THIS SESSION LATE SO THESE NOTES ARE VERY INCOMPLETE. THESE COMMENTS ARE A COMBINATION OF IDEAS…
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Navigating Beyond the Now: The Force, Trends, and Signals that will impact Learning in the Next Decade
These are my notes from Monica Martinez’s CoSN09 spotlight session, “Navigating Beyond the Now: The Force, Trends, and Signals that will impact Learning in the Next Decade.” MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. THERE ARE SOME AMAZING VIDEOS HERE. POWERFUL IDEAS. GOOD SYNTHESIS AND RESOURCES. Grassroots Economy The Institute For The Future –…
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Social Networking, Web 2.0, and Learning: What the Research Says
These are my notes from Cheryl Lemke’s COSN09 session “Social Networking, Web 2.0, and Learning: What the Research Says.” MY THOUGHTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Cheryl will be putting up a wiki soon with references and citations What is different about web 2.0? (discussion) Stanford and the Univ of Washington have a multi-million dollar grant…
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Free image editing options and student voices on edtech
I posted twice on the NECC 2009 ISTEconnects blog today: Free image editing options Student Voices about technology and creating the future Don’t miss either of the videos discussed in the latter post, “Learning to Change, Changing to Learn – Kid’s Tech.” …and… “No Future Left Behind.” Hat tip to Tammy Stephens for the first…
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Podcast304: The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated (learning@school09 keynote)
This podcast is an audio recording of my keynote address on February 27, 2009, in Rotorua, New Zealand, for the Learning@School 2009 Conference. I also included some reflections I recorded on stage just prior to the keynote. The official conference presentation description of this session was: Personalised, differentiated learning defines exemplary education in the 21st…