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Writing to “Build the Larger Conversation” So, Kathleen Blake Yancey has been an influence on my teaching for a good long time, all the way back to the mid 1990s when I was doing research on professional teaching portfolios during a sabbatical from classroom. Her work and ideas have been an important part of the conversation around teaching and writing, and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One School’s Journey to Online Social Learning So if you’re looking for a model of a school that’s heavily invested in social tools but using all open source or home grown apps to begin to teach even their youngest kids the benefits of publishing and networking, read on. During my visit to Melbourne I met Richard Olsen, a former teacher and ICT [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Interview With Carol Dweck Just finished up a really interesting interview with Carol Dweck, author of the book Mindset, and it’s got me thinking hard about the language I use with my own kids in terms of creating a “growth mindset” in them or a “fixed mindset.” I’ve always believed that we should focus on effort to improve as [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Talk With Howard Rheingold I’m really, really, really happy to report that my hourlong interview with Howard Rheingold from a couple of weeks ago has FINALLY appeared in the Ustream archive. I had a great time getting the chance to pick his brain, and I hope you enjoy it as well. Online TV Shows by Ustream UPDATE: Thanks to Bud [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Response to Jay Matthews at the Washington Post Jay Matthews wrote a piece in the Post this morning titled “The Latest Doomed Pedagogical Fad: 21st Century Skills” to which I replied what follows. Would be interested to hear your thoughts, here or there… I don’t disagree that the majority of “21st Century Skills” are nothing new, and that we should have been teaching them [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New MacArthur Study: Must Read for Educators So here is the money quote from the just released study from the MacArthur Foundation titled “Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project” (pdf): New media allow for a degree of freedom and autonomy for youth that is less apparent in� classroom setting. Youth respect one another�s authority online, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "New MacArthur Study: Must Read for Educators", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/new-macarthur-study-must-r ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Adrenaline Forest So New Zealand turned out to be the most beautiful place I’ve ever been, and aside from some pretty unhelpful airline personnel, the people were more than friendly and helpful. Even though I didn’t get to play as much as I would have liked to, we saw a lot of the South Island and can [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Adrenaline Forest", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/the-adrenaline-forest/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Immersive Learning So I have a feeling that I may be settling into a couple-a-somewhat-meaningful-posts-a-week routine here at the old blogyard, not nearly as much as I have posted in the past. It’s not that I’m not writing, I’m just writing in other spaces, trying to comment more to the things I’m reading, writing articles and proposals, [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Immersive Learning", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/immersive-learning/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Assessing Network Building So lately I’ve been talking and thinking more and more about this idea of a “performance standard” that reads something like “Students create, grow and navigate online personal learning networks in safe, effective and ethical ways” and what that would mean in a NETS type framework. For instance, students: locate, identify and evaluate potential mentors or [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Assessing Network Building", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/assessing- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lessig on Media and Government Reform It’s no secret that Lawrence Lessig has been one of my heroes in this conversation for a long, long time, and I just wanted to share his most recent presentation from this weekend’s National Conference for Media Reform in Minneapolis. Would have loved to have been there. I’ve always been a student of Lessig as a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Lessig on Media and Government Reform", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/lessig-on-media-and-government-reform/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boomerang SCENE I (Tucker and I at the computer getting ready to get some info on how to throw the boomerang I just brought him back from Australia.) Me: So where do you want to start? Tucker: (Already typing “www.yout…”) Me: Wait a sec. (Trying to sound wise.) Before we go there, why don’t we see if we can get [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Boomerang", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/boomerang/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Study: Young Kids Online Just wanted to point briefly to a new ethnographic study on young kids in online social environments that was released this week by Consumer Reports Web Watch and the Mediatech Foundation, which is the brainchild of my good friend Warren Buckleitner (and for which I serve, badly I might add, as vice president of the [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Study: Young Kids Online", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/study-young-kids-online/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waking Up With a �Cognitive Surplus� So it’s official. Clay Shirky is my new hero, right up there with Lessig in terms of spelling things out in ways that just make so much sense, and that actually cause butterflies in my stomach when my brain fully wraps around an idea and owns it. I loved his book, Here Comes Everybody, and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Waking Up With a “Cognitive Surplus”", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/waking-up-with-a-cognitive-surplus/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quote of the Day: New Knowledge From “Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace” (600+ page .pdf) comes this passage by Robert Steele in his essay “Creating a Smart Nation:” Published knowledge is old knowledge: The art of intelligence in the 21st Century will be less concerned with integrating old knowledge and more concerned with using published knowledge as a path [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quote of the Day: New Knowledge", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/quote-of-the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of American Education: Not So Great A new report about inner city graduation rates (.pdf) paints a pretty sobering picture, to put it mildly: Our analysis finds that graduating from high school in the America�s largest cities amounts, essentially, to a coin toss. Only about one-half (52 percent) of students in the principal school systems of the 50 largest cities complete high [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The State of American Education: Not So Great", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/the-state-of-american-education-not- ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Universal Learning Care Take 53 seconds to watch this snippet from Stephen Heppel via Greg Whitby. Hard to pack more thinkable ideas into that short a time. But the one I love is the idea that we have to start thinking of learning like health; it goes with us throughout our lives. And the idea that schools don’t want [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Universal Learning Care", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/universal-learning-care/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight Amazing. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/jill-bolte-taylor-my-stroke-of-insight/" }); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blogging About Politics; Lessig for Congress When I first started blogging in 2001, I wrote a lot of short little snips that dealt with politics and my general frustration with the world. That was before my voice here evolved into an ongoing conversation about how traditional ideas of teaching and schooling change in the face of the Read/Write Web and all [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Real Work by My Smart Daughter So Tess made the local paper this week, in large part to Ms. March, one of her teachers who hit upon a cool project when she started wondering what the division symbol was called. Turns out, after contacting MIT and Princeton, that there was no known name it. Perfect opportunity for a contest, which Tess [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Playin� PVC Before I did some evangelizing in Moline this morning, four very creative students from Lewiston High School about 90 miles away from here put on a 45-minute mini concert playing, wait for it, a collection of pvc and rubber tubes that, depending on length and thickness, created different tones when thumped on with a drum [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Local Connections and Global Connections There’s much to write about EduCon Day 1, but here are just some quick thoughts before heading over for the final sessions: *Science Leadership Academy is a special place. There are tons of schools out there that have more technology, better facilities, etc., but I think we’d all be hard pressed to find a school that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Here We Go Again Since I can, I’m embedding the trailer for the Frontline presentation of “Growing Up Online” which airs tomorrow at 9 EST on PBS channels everywhere. This looks like another of those “Be vewwy afwaid” moments in the annals of kids and the Internet. Joy. Again, I think danah boyd says it right: �You have a generation faced [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How it All Ends Saw this at Chris Lehmann’s site. As he says “This is one science teacher’s attempt to influence the way we talk about the issue of climate change. Pass it on.” And also, take action. Technorati Tags: climatechange, globalwarming, education Powered by ScribeFire. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Wii as $99 SmartBoard So the cool thing about this is not that you can pretty easily hack a Wii to make just about any surface you can project onto into an interactive white board (though that is cool, no doubt.) What’s REALLY cool about it is that Johnny Chung Lee, the guy that figured out how to do [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Kids are All Right� Alec Couros’ post on digital citizenship makes some valid points, but I’m not convinced that a few examples of really vile content and lazy practice are reasons to think that the concept of citizenship is in some way fundamentally shifting. But I also don’t fall all the way to the Tom Hoffman side of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pocket Texting and Open Phone Tests From the “So What Do We Do About This?” Department comes a story about the tech savvyness of one 14-year old South Korean youngster who is making his phone play an important part in his education. Insoo doesn’t even have to take the phone out of his pocket to send an SMS. He knows how to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website �The iPod of Reading� Tomorrow, Amazon is set to release “Kindle,” the digital book reader that holds over 200 books and does a whole lot more (i.e. full text searches, annotations, wireless downloads, online surfing, etc.) It’s a huge suggestion, isn’t it, that we might be on the verge of moving one of the last bastions of the analog [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On Balance, Chapter 37 From today’s Times: South Korea boasts of being the most wired nation on earth. In fact, perhaps no other country has so fully embraced the Internet. Ninety percent of homes connect to cheap, high-speed broadband, online gaming is a professional sport, and social life for the young revolves around the �PC bang,� dim Internet parlors that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Network Learning Practice Obviously, I’ve been taking a bit of a blogging break of late. And while I’m not feeling like I’m totally back at it yet, I have found myself doing some reading, getting back into Twitter, and connecting some dots in my brain. Without question, these last six weeks have been mind-numbing…way too many presentations in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Will�s Links 11/08/2007 New Class(room) War: Teacher vs. Technology - New York Times Quote: “All the advances schools and colleges have made to supposedly enhancelearning — supplying students with laptops, equipping computer labs,creating wireless networks � have instead enabled distraction. Perhapsattendance records should include a new category: present but otherwiseengaged.” Note: I actually met a high school principal in Ohio [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Battle is (or Will Be) Lost Last week at the Personal Democracy Forum, Google CEO Eric Schmidt told a story about how as an “older person” he had trouble with the fact that during his one-hour a week staff meeting, everyone had their heads in their computers. So he decided to ban computers from the meeting, and the next week, everyone [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Student Books on Lulu A few months ago when I ran a two-day workshop at Chris Lehmann’s Science Leadership Academy, we talked about how easy it is for students to be publishing, not just in digital forms but in traditional print as well. Chris even went so far as to hang a sign on one of the shelves in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Talking Education with US Senators�Questions Anyone? So this is pretty wild…no sooner do I get done having a great conversation with David Warlick here in Raleigh about the need for some vision at the top, and I mean the real top, about the potential of the Read/Write Web to transform learning when I get an e-mail from Senator Lamarr Alexander’s (R-TN) [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Tools in Politics Podcast Just in case you might be interested, Susan Manning and Dan Balzer over at LearningTimes and I recently did a Skype call to discuss the use of social tools in the current presidential campaigns. Here is the podcast and here are the show notes.Technorati Tags: politics, social, tools, obama, mccainListen to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connectivism Conference Podcast In case you are interested, the MP3 of my presentation at the Connectivism Online Conference today is online here. (Apologies for the chipmunk sections.) Let me know what you think! Technorati Tags: connectivism, learning, education Listen to this podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Leadership Academy Up Close and Personal On Monday, my colleague and soon to be blogger Rob Mancabelli and I dropped in on Chris Lehmann at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia for a three hour tour and chat. Bottom line is that Chris is building a vibrant community of learners among both teachers and students that has a unique feeling in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Phone Per Child (?) A couple of weeks ago, someone, somewhere noted the interesting phenomenon of schools finally catching on to the 1-1 laptop initiative just when cell phones are starting to come into their own as the heir apparent in computing devices. I wish I could remember the link, because a couple of stories have really made me [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Edublog Awards/Edublog Evolution/Edublog Echo I’ve been remiss in not pointing to this year’s Edublog Awards nominees for which voting ends on Saturday. I’m particularly struck this year by the number of blogs and bloggers who I had not ever heard of, which is a testament, I think, to the ways in which the community is beginning to really get [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Google is Just Too Boring Especially when you compare it to Ms. Dewey. Sheesh… technorati tags:search, google Listen to this podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Time: How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century So here are Time’s recommendations: 1. Teach kids more about the world. 2. Think outside the box. 3. Become smarter about new sources of information. 4. Develop good people skills. (Communicate, collaborate) We can do that. technorati tags:school20, learning20, education Listen to this podcast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website That Whacky Web 2.0 So today was a finish line of sorts…once I get home (if I get home) tonight, I’m staring seven weeks of R&R in the face starting tomorrow, and I have to say, I’m ready. It’s been such a treat for me to travel around the country (and the world) and meet so many interesting and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blogs as Research I’ve been playing around with Google Reader and just noticed an interesting thread between the first two posts that I shared to my public page. First, David Weinberger:I came away realizing why media literacy programs often bother me. Frequently, the idea even is that we have to teach our children how to recognize the Internet [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teachers Tech Use on the Rise�So? Dave Warlick points to a study that shows that more teachers are starting to use technology in their teaching. Ironically, not once in the article are the words “learn” or “learning” mentioned in the context of teachers or students. Why?What difference, really, does the infusion of technology into the classroom have if the teachers who [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dispatches from the Front Lines This is why we open up and connect our kids to the world and teach them how to function there safely:About a month ago, two of my students reported on research by a geneticist involved with sleep and memory, and posted their reports to the my class blog. In their reports, the students raised some [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "Passion Based Learning� Another article that’s got me all fired up today is this CNET review of a John Seeley Brown speech at MIT last Friday. As Clarence points out, Brown affirms much of what we as a community has been saying about the types of changes the Web is bringing about and what it means for our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Reason #84 to Teach Blogs and Wikis: National Security Great article in the New York Times magzine today on the burgeoning use of blogs and wikis by government intelligence agencies to capture and connect information and turn it into knowledge. Now read this:Indeed, throughout the intelligence community, spies are beginning to wonder why their technology has fallen so far behind � and talk among [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website MLK.org on the Way Down Agree with the tactics or not, isn’t it interesting that the Martin Luther King DOT org site that we’ve been reverse Google Bombing has already slipped from the number one result in the Google search results for Dr. King to fourth or sixth, depending on what browser I use. (Now why would that be?) Don’t [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Announcing EduBloggerCon 2007 "Unconference� (From Steve Hargadon on the SupportBlogging Google Group) Calling all educational bloggers! After the EduBlog MeetUp in San Diego last year at NECC, there was some feeling that more time for interaction between the educational bloggers would be of great value…and so…announcing EduBloggerCon 2007. While the exact date and details of EduBloggerCon 2007 are not finalized, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Web 2.0 in Higher Ed Rankings It’s been a months since I revisited EdBloggerNews, the Digg-type site I created earlier this year and then pretty much forgot about. But after noticing a couple of references to it today, I took a quick trip over and lo and behold, there’s some diggin’ goin’ on. Here’s a link I found to very informal [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2020 Vision I didn’t realize until I saw Karl Fisch’s latest video that next year’s kindergarteners will be the class of 2020, and just the phrasing that we need a “2020 Vision” for that group is too good not to remix in any number of ways. (Hey Karl…have you trademarked it yet???) This new video is a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lovin� That GPS So last week I decided to give my directionally challenged spouse an early holiday gift…a window-mounted Garmin i5 GPS…and we tried it out on our trip to Connecticut this weekend. All I can say is “Oh. My. Goodness.” Now I fully admit to being naive about many things technological. But this little device is just [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Skype and OS X�&$%^#* Together I’m really getting frustrated with Skype on a variety of levels. My troubles with 2.0 on my MacBook never got resolved, so I went back to 1.5 and got it working for a while, but now the same thing is happening again. No one shows up online in my list of contacts. Nothing I do [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aggregating Student Blogs in Google Reader This isn’t much different from doing it with SuprGlu (in fact it may not be as elegant) but since it’s the first use of a public Google Reader page to collect a classroom full of student blog posts that I’ve seen, here’s a link to it. The posts are from a 6th grade social studies [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Reading Dead? Last night at our Thanksgiving get together, I got into a long conversation with a family member who is a long-time high school English teacher and who has begun dipping his toes into the Read/Write Web. (I had nothing to do with it, I swear…almost.) While he has been impressed with the work that his [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NOTmartinlutherking.org So Tom has been doing a great job of teaching all of us the intricacies of Google ranks and white supremicism, and as his last few posts suggest, he’s become a bit obsessed (in a good way, of course) with knocking martinlutherkingDOTorg down a few pegs. To be honest, I’m feeling somewhat chagrined at the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New UK Student Bloggers If nothing else, this trip has reminded me how much fun it is to work with kids and how I really love to be in an environment where I can be serious and be really silly at the same time. All of the kids that I met this week in Liverpool and Bolton just sparkled [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Great Example of Elementary School Publishing and Kids Teaching So here is another example of what elementary kids can do in terms of publishing text and audio to the Web. This is the Top of the Fold online newspaper that Grandview Elementary in Monsey, NY uses to publish student artwork, podcasts and more. The teachers have a lot to do with posting the work, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website On the Radio So that was a fast 20 minutes, much faster than the NYC area traffic that slowed me down to the point that instead of going to the WNYC studios for my little radio appearance today I ended up pulling off and doing the interview from a friend’s office phone. Nonetheless, it was fun and interesting, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Changing Professional Practice So I delivered a keynote this morning at the “Keeping in Touch with Kids” Curriculum Camp held by the Cattaragus/Allegany BOCES here in Ellicotville, NY. This is the 11th year that they’ve held camp, and event where many of the attendees come back year after year to “go deeper” into topics like literacy and leadership. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Grade 8 Blogging Community: A Powerful Story Konrad Glogowski has an amazing post today about his grade 8 students’ blogging experiences, and it’s one that should be trumpeted far and wide in this community. Imagine being a part of this: My community of grade eight student bloggers became so big and so engaging that I spent every spare moment reading and writing within [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed Tech Talk #46�Rambling About Blogs Just in case any one might be interested in some late Sunday night ramblings, I had the good fortune of being on Ed Tech Talk #46 this weekend. Here is the link if you’re interested. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website