Saturday, May 10, 2008
Here is an interesting piece from the Technology column in the New York Times.
Return of the Cellphones-in-Class Issue
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
A very interesting article on “teachers as learners.” What do you think?
http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/04/operationalizin.html
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Sunday, March 16, 2008
This video is pretty amazing!
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Sunday, December 02, 2007
In his article, “The Steep Unlearning Curve,” Will Richardson suggests 10 things we need to unlearn. What do you think? Are there anymore things to add to the list?
- We need to unlearn the idea that we are the sole content experts in the classroom, because we can now connect our kids to people who know far more than we do about the material we’re teaching.
- We need to unlearn the premise that we know more than our kids, because in many cases, they can now be our teachers as well.
- We need to unlearn the idea that learning itself is an event. In this day and age, it is a continual process.
- We need to unlearn the strategy that collaborative work inside the classroom is enough and understand that cooperating with students from around the globe can teach relevant and powerful negotiation and team-building skills.
- We need to unlearn the idea that every student needs to learn the same content when really what they need to learn is how to self-direct their own learning.
- We need to unlearn the notion that our students don’t need to see and understand how we ourselves learn.
- We need to unlearn our fear of putting ourselves and our students “out there” for we’ve proven we can do it in safe, relevant and effective ways.
- We need to unlearn the practice that teaches all students at the same pace. Is it any wonder why so many of our students love to play online games where they move forward at their own pace?
- We need to unlearn the idea that we can teach our students to be literate in this world by continually blocking and filtering access to the sites and experiences they need our help to navigate.
- We need to unlearn the premise that real change can happen just by rethinking what happens inside the school walls and understand that education is now a community undertaking on many different levels.
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Sunday, March 18, 2007
This is a blog that describes itself: “At the Schoolhouse Gate ("The Gate") is intended to cover all things related to P-12 school law. “
Link to At the School House Gate blog.
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I just ran across this post from David Sherman about his experiences with blogging. David is an elementary school principal in Deerfield, Illinois. I think this is a great testimonial, from an administrator, on the power of blogging and of using Bloglines as a resource for professional growth.
Link to “Blogging and the Teaching of Writing”
Link to Mr. Sherman’s Blog
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Sunday, January 07, 2007
This link came from Will Richardson’s Weblogg-ed blog.
Newly Ancient - “You find yourself staring at a blog filled with the thoughts, ideas, and writings of Arthus Erea, a student and beginning web developer.”
This is a terrific example of a teenager (13 years old) who is effectively using a blog and bringing his friends into the discussion.
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Friday, December 08, 2006
During Ed Barlow’s presentation at LCTI, he mentioned the need for us and our students to have a “virtual desktop”—a place where we go to learn keep up-to date on things in our field. The idea resonated with me because I consider my Bloglines account to be one aspect of my own “virtual desktop.” Related to that, the EduBlog nominations came out today. If you are looking for some good educational blogs, you might want to check out their list of nominations. Awards will be announced on Sunday, December 17.
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Monday, December 04, 2006
It will be interesting following the comments to this post on David Warlick’s blog. I like Vicki Davis’s suggestion for us to all set up Bloglines accounts. I must say, I have read about more thought provoking ideas on blogs than in many books. Books are great, but blogs are so much more immediate for me. We’ll get more into this at our December 19 goals meeting.
What books do you think are ”must reads” for administrators that will help us negotiate the changing landscape of education?
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