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)
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What is the Allegory/Metaphor of 21st Century Education?

Will Richardson wrote about his kids:
“At 6 and 8, they have already become pieces on the assembly line, chugging along apace with their peers, everything checked, everything ordered.”
So what is the allegory or metaphor of 21st century learning and education? What represents that flexible learning environment. The web is the most obvious, but [...]

Change is in the Air

Yet another reference to gardening posted at the Connectivism Blog:
We think we are trimming the hedges, when we have the potential to alter the entire landscape – to alter the very make up of the soil in which the hedges grow.
Will Richardson writes about the changes that are happening in Learning vs. Education:
It comes down [...]

Language Labs

Our Chinese teacher is a heavy technology user. She uses Word and Powerpoint to record audio and insert images for assignments for her students. These files are copied to our file server where she listens to them. She works with students using this type of activity a few periods a week, allowing [...]

Change or Die and its Realationship with Education

Will Richardson discussed the relationship between Business and Education in this post. Fred shared this site on 1:1 education with the NYCIST forum yesterday. In “A brief summary of 2005 G1:1 workshop (by Jeremy Roschelle and Tak-Wai Chan)” they write the following:

Several major trends emerged. First, researchers believe that by 2015 all students will have [...]

This I believe

Another great This I Believe from NPR today. This one is by Jody Williams and its title is When Ordinary People Achieve Extraordinary Things. She concludes:
I believe that worrying about the problems plaguing our planet without taking steps to confront them is absolutely irrelevant. The only thing that changes this world is taking action.
I believe [...]

The Goal of Education in the US

I believe that the best business/schools/families have clear goals. This perspective is seen in books describing corporations like Good to Great (The best companies have clear goals), in Alfie Cohn’s in Unconditional Parenting (He asks, “What type of person do you want your child to be when they are an adult?”), and in [...]

The Implications of Steadily Cheaper and More Powerful Computers - ISED-L

Just posted this in response to Fred Bartel’s ISED-L post earlier this week:
Boy Fred, You always motivate me to write long responses to your posts! I started [ www.learning-blog.org ]a blog over break — that, along with adjusting old third child - who is six weeks old - took much of my [...]

The Future of Education…

Wow — There have been some pretty amazing posts in blogs, listserves, and online in the past few days. Will Richardson is back from his blogging vacation and posted the following about his feelings about the educational blogosphere:
But there’s no doubt there is an energy around all of this right now, an urgency even. [...]

To Blog List

I have tons of things to blog about, but not enough time.
Here’s the list:

How I set up this blog? Notes on Wordpress, and the template info I have added.
School leadership - from Books like Good to Great, Now Here are your Strengths, etc.
Learning and teaching philosophy — How schools are working now and should work. [...]

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