Category: schoolreform
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The Milennials in our Classrooms (David Warlick)
These are my notes from David Warlick’s TECSIG luncheon keynote at TCEA 2007 in Austin, Texas on Feb 7, 2007. David granted permission for me to record and share this session as a podcast, I’ll publish that here later this week. http://handouts.davidwarlick.com Wiki page: Retooling for the Millennial Child “it’s about conversation” “this is what…
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Podcast123: Ideas For Reinventing Education As School 2.0
This podcast is a recording of the last twelve minutes of a presentation I shared today at the Oklahoma Technology Association’s 2007 conference titled “The Case for 1:1 Computing and School 2.0.” I should have cut some slides and content from this presentation from the “draft” version I posted last week and I did not!…
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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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Blog Blocks, Student Influence for Social Change, Edifying student bloggers
Ah, the joys of school district content filters. Note the category / reason for this content filter block: Web Logs / Personal Pages. Unfortunately content filter policies like this which view all “blogs” as evil and inappropriate for anyone to access at school are quite common in the state of Oklahoma, from what I’ve seen.…
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Time and School 2.0
Bonnie Bracey Sutton‘s January 17th post on the SITE blog, “Tech Divide, Data Divide” includes references to several new as well as older publications that promise to be insightful for ongoing discussions about designing “School 2.0” and next-gen educational reform policies in the United States. I commented on these ideas this evening on the SITE…
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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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John Seely Brown on rethinking schools
I discovered John Seely Brown and some of his on-target thinking with respect to educational reform in December before Christmas, and am thrilled to see today that Steve Hargadon has just posted a podcast interview with John that looks outstanding. I’ll be adding this to my “to listen” list this week as I travel to…
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Engagement, school fun, and passionless teachers
Scott McCloud has posted some provoking ideas relating to gaming, student engagement, the degree to which teachers strive to make their lessons engaging, and the degree to which we should strive to make school “fun.” He writes: Too often we educators (both K-12 and higher ed) say that ‘We’ve put together a good lesson, now…