del.icio.us links for the week…

Computer Science Teachers Association
(tags: learning computer-science)
Abject Learning: The network delivers the goods
Excellent examples of great wiki and blog uses in education — the guys posted a request for good examples and ended up flooded. … (tags: blogging wiki web2.0 learning)
LibriVox
podcasting book that are in the public domain … [...]

Learning About Podcasting

Check out NCQ Talk for amazing resources on podcasting, discussions on how to podcast effectively, and why to podcast. The also cover College as well as K-12 technology issues and point to so many amazing resources online. One of which is the Education Podcast Network. Amazing resources — hours and hours of content for the [...]

More from This I Believe

A Shared Moment of Trust: by Warren Christopher —Trust is what it’s all about — we have to do it, so why are we fighting it? Fear — It’s just scary to trust, but we have to. We have no choice in the matter.

The Metaphor for 21st Century Learning

From the Connectivism Blog:
In a learning sense, we have treated the learner and the content as one entity. We fill the learner with content and release them into the corporate world. As their content runs low, they attend evening/continuing education classes in order to “refill”. This model works fairly well when the half-life of knowledge [...]

This Week’s Del.icio.us Bookmarks…

Thanks to John Pederson from pedersondesigns for the idea to start publishing my Del.icio.us links!

MarcoPolo - Internet Content for the Classroom
Classroom resourses for teachers. … (tags: middleschool upperschool lowerschool learning)
Michael Fullan
International Leader in School Change — … (tags: 21st-Century-Learning leadership school-change)
BLOG » Patch for WordPress 2.0 trackback [...]

Marketplace in China

Marketplace.org was reporting from China this past week. Amazing stories about how China is changing, and what their (and our) future could look like. Check it out here.

November Questions

Notes from November Learning Conference - Summer 2005 - Alan November Leadership Podcast…
Lots to digest — Thanks to Alan November for posting this all as a podcast. Amazing amounts of information!
How to work with Teachers?
Ask them:
What do you love to teach?
How do you do it?
What are the most troublesome parts of the curriculum?
Align tech [...]

Audacity and Wordpress for Learning Labs

So — I just finished my first video stream tutorial. I created it with Windows Media Encoder and posted it on our Windows Media Streaming Server. Then I linked to it using our Wordpress MU Blog server (we needed to tweak the MU server a bit to link to mms:// servers — here’s the hack [...]

Social Networks…

There’s been a great conversation on Social Networks going on at the ISED-L Listserv. Here are the archives.
And my two cents:
Hi,
This is a great conversation. Conversation with students on social networks is important, but it is really the kids who are going to make the decisions on how they use technology. I [...]

21st Century Learning Proposal - Birth through 18

Plan:
1. Create a 21st Century K-12 Curriculum entry in Wikipedia
2. Create a reading list, missing statement, and guidelines for adding to the curriculum document
3. Get as many folks adding as possible
4. Present the info at as many conferences as possible
5. See what happens.
Ride the wave into a new paradigm of education…

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