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Moving at the Speed of Creativity by Wes Fryer

Category: schoolreform

  • Nuggets from NECC 2008 (1)

    I participated in an extremely positive and energizing panel discussion today at NECC 2008 organized by Pearson Education. Participants included Jo McLeay, Cheryl Oakes, Joyce Valenza, Chris Lehmann, Lucy Gray, Julie Lindsey, and Vicki Davis. Elaine Roberts of Pearson told us we would be able to have an audio copy of our discussion, and I…

  • Podcast260: EduBloggerCon 2008, Intellectual Property and Recording: A Conversation with Elaine Roberts of Pearson

    At EduBloggerCon 2008 in San Antonio, Texas, on June 28th, some controversy arose regarding the presence of videographers hired by Pearson Education. Steve Hargadon, who was the primary organizer of EduBloggerCon, gave permission to Pearson to attend and videotape many of the sessions pending permission from the presenters and speakers themselves. Today I had an…

  • Designing the 21st Century Global Learning Environment

    These are my notes from Stephanie Sandifer’s closing session at EdubloggerCon 2008 in San Antonio, “Designing the 21st Century Global Learning Environment.” Our work in this session focused on the wiki: eduplan.wikispaces.com. What school is NOT … (let’s brainstorm that) – This idea came from Ginger Lewman, who shared her thinking and work with others…

  • Are teachers in your building parallel players?

    In her June 21, 2007, article “Education: Connecting the Lonely Profession” for WorldChanging, Suzie Boss discussed how many teachers seem to be stuck in professional learning and interaction behaviors which resemble “parallel play” for young children. She wrote: Roland Barth, founding director of the Principals’ Center at Harvard University suggested in Educational Leadership last year…

  • Podcast258: Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning by Kevin Honeycutt

    This podcast is a recording of the keynote address shared by Kevin Honeycutt at the Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning conference in Wichita, Kansas, on 12 June 2008. The TTT conference is hosted by ESSDACK, the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas located in Hutchinson. Kevin is one of…

  • Updates on OLPC (June 2008)

    The June 5, 2008, BusinessWeek article “One Laptop Meets Big Business: The big idea of giving PCs to poor children has been challenged by educators and business. Here, follow the misadventures of One Laptop per Child” includes a variety of updates about OLPC, which I regard as the most important educational technology initiative in the…

  • Podcast257: Natural Learning – What Schools Don’t Do by Steve Wycoff

    This podcast is a recording of a presentation by Steve Wycoff on June 12, 2008, titled “Natural Learning – What Schools Don’t Do” at the Trends, Tools, and Tactics for 21st Century Learning conference in Wichita, Kansas. TTT is sponsored by ESSDACK, the Educational Services and Staff Development Association of Central Kansas in Hutchinson. The…

  • Natural Learning: What Schools Don’t Do by Steve Wycoff

    These are my notes from Steve Wycoff’s breakout session titled “Learning: What Schools Don’t Do” at the TTT conference in Wichita, Kansas, on 12 June 2008. MY THOUGHTS ARE ALL IN CAPS. BEING ABLE TO HEAR, RECORD AND SHARE THIS SESSION IS THE MAIN REASON I CAME TO THIS CONFERENCE. I HAVE HEARD PART OF…

  • $100 million for a petaflop of performance

    Remember the ENIAC computer? (Well, I guess I’m not actually asking if you REMEMBER it– as in you SAW it in person– more if you read and learned about it in the past.) According to the current WikiPedia entry, it was unveiled in 1946 and cost approximately $500,000. ENIAC was designed and built to calculate…

  • Podcast254: Coaching and Leading Faculty on the Blended Learning Journey: An Interview with Scott Charlson

    For the past three years, Scott Charlson has served as the Director of Learning Support Systems at Western Oklahoma State College  (WOSC) in Altus, Oklahoma. In this role, Scott has served as a facilitator and coach for college instructors teaching entirely online and in blended learning environments. In this recorded interview from May 28, 2008,…