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What if your school blew up?: The Little Becky approach to school reform
One of the most debilitating aspects of today’s educational environment is the fear of failure. No, I am not talking about students, I am talking about teachers and administrators. There is a constant fear of losing jobs, funding, the chance … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative Interaction, Educational Technology, Real Ed Tech Solutions, School Change, Web 2.0
Tagged del.icio.us, Digg, Diigo, education, Educational Technology, Hoover_Institute, innovation, Innovation3, ISU, learning, learning_architecture, McLeod, MIT, MSU, Negroponte, Ning, OLPC, OMAET, Pepperdine, Peters, Postrel, Pownce, reform, Twitter, UStream, web2.0, YouTube, Zhao
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The EdTech Lament
Sitting at Beans ‘n Cream having my morning tea and a tweet came through the stream . . . @mrplough07 linked to a new blog entry decrying his experience in a class he is taking as part of his EdTech … Continue reading
Why Technology Doesn’t Change Education
In a great editorial in the July/August issue of Edutopia, James Daly brings home a wonderfully salient point, “The new reality is that the public-education system is no longer the only, or the paramount, place where we go to learn.” … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, Higher Ed, Real Ed Tech Solutions, Responsible cyber-behavior, Web 2.0
Tagged blog, Daly, digital citizenship, digital literacy, Downes, EdTech, education, educational change, Educational Technology, Edutopia, flat world, Freedman, Friedman, GLEF, Jack Welch, learning, Nazemi, Peters, Roanoke College, Senge, social networks, technology, Tom Peters, web2.0, Welch, WordPress, YouTube
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Web 2.0 in the classroom
Exciting interview with Lucy Gray from U of Chicago discussing Web 2.0 applications in the classroom. She only touches the tip of the iceberg but you can catch up with many of the ideas she has on her blog. Keep … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technology, Real Ed Tech Solutions
Tagged blog, Lucy Gray, UC, University of Chicago, web2.0
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Are you properly licensed to teach your child?
If you are a parent who believes in teaching your children anything – you better have a license – or so it would seem in light of a decision by the District 2 Court of Appeals in Wisconsin this week. … Continue reading
Where the Web is going . . .
Worth the listen! The WWW’s innovator has a few words about where things are going . . . be sure to listen to Scoble’s follow-up interview afterwards . . . now my particular soap box, where do things go from … Continue reading
No more bent students . . .
My son is a freshman in high school this year, and though I have seen it during my 23 years of teaching it hits home even more since he is my son: he is carrying around 50 pounds of stabilized … Continue reading
Teachers should be anonymous . . .
My friend Paul Baker quoted me in a post about an article at eSchool News discussing Ohio’s “warning” to teachers to avoid social networking via the Internet. The article doesn’t suggest limits, it seems to be a suggestion of complete … Continue reading
Book Review: Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools
Nice review, by Paul Baker “a public relations practitioner at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison” of this book by Gwen Solomon, Lynne Schrum. A great book with wonderful windows on what is already … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Educational Technology, Real Ed Tech Solutions
Tagged books, Educational Technology, Web 2.0
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