Category: schoolreform
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Creativity and Netbooks
As you can probably tell from my recent posts, I’ve got netbooks as well as creativity on my mind quite a bit these days. I shared two new posts this evening on ISTEconnects: Creativity in our schools A netbook for every student? I used both the quotations I shared from Christensen, Horn & Johnson as…
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SlideCast: The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated
I shared “The Landscape of 21st Century Learning: Personalised and Differentiated” as the closing keynote at the Learning@School 2009 conference in Rotorua, New Zealand, last Friday. Today I finished adding all the referenced links to my presentation wiki page, and also added and synchronized the recorded audio from the presentation to SlideShare. The Landscape of…
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Podcast303: Transforming Pedagogy in NZ Schools, Duck Hunting in Hobbiton, the Easy Talk Microphone, and Kid Witness News
This podcast includes a series of three interviews from the Learning@School 2009 conference in Rotorua, New Zealand. The first is an interview with Dean McDonnell, a school principal near Matamata. One of the families whose children attend at Dean’s school own the farm where Hobbiton was built for the film trilogy The Lord of the…
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Does your organization embrace innovation and creativity, or seek to shoot change agents?
The NASA/JPL-inspired video “Barriers to Innovation and Inclusion” provides an excellent contextual opportunity to discuss big issues which plague many organizations and bureaucracies: Are middle and upper level managers stifling creativity and “shooting the messenger” who seeks to be a catalyst for new ideas and innovative approaches, or do these individuals embrace and support the…
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Marco Torres Keynote: ITSC 2009 Portland
These are my notes from Marco Torres‘ keynote at ITSC 2009 “Rethinking It.” I AM RECORDING THIS SESSION, AND MARCO HAS GIVEN ME PERMISSION TO SHARE SOME EXCERPTS/CLIPS FROM IT. “The Community Inspiration Studio” is the name of Marco’s classroom – In addition to being an educator Marco is an artist, photographer, and filmmaker –…
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Sir Ken Robinson on Creativity and Transforming our Schools (ITSC 2009)
These are my notes from Sir Ken Robinson’s opening keynote address at the 2009 ITSC (Instructional Technologies Strategies Conference) on February 15, 2009, in Portland, Oregon. MY THOUGHTS AND REFLECTIONS ARE IN ALL CAPS. I ACTUALLY MET SIR KEN AT THE REGISTRATION TABLE A BIT EARLIER AND HE SIGNED MY COPY OF HIS NEW BOOK…
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Bill Gates on Education Reform in Feb 2009
On February 5, 2009, Bill Gates gave a twenty minute talk at the TED conference and spoke on the topic, “How I’m trying to change the world now.” He spoke about two issues: malaria and education reform. If you forward the video to the 8:00 mark, you can immediately start listening to his remarks about…
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A fantastic community conversation on education and workforce needs
Sheryl Nussbaum Beach’s recent post “21st Century Workforce Readiness” highlights a fantastic recent day of conversations which took place in Newport News, Virginia, focused on 21st century skills, workforce needs, and the importance of educational change to meet the demands of our dynamic economy. I serve on the education committee for Creative Oklahoma, and in…
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President Obama: Please make REAL education transformation your goal
We do not merely need education “reform” in our nation, we need educational TRANSFORMATION. The campaign “Will We Really” seeks to motivate folks like you and me to contact our elected representatives so they will commit to four things related to educational transformation: Every child deserves a 21st Century education. Every community deserves an equal…
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eTechOhio, School Reform Ideas and Smaller PDF Files
I’ve been making a few last-minute tweaks for my keynote tomorrow at eTechOhio 2009, titled “Reinventing Education for the 21st Century (Designing School 2.0).” Today enroute to Columbus I read more of Clayton Christensen’s book “Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns” and watched (in the Chicago Midway airport) the…