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Unforgettable Learning (Cross posted on the Powerful Learning Practice blog as a part of an ongoing conversation with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach.) Dear Sheryl, (Note: I’m grumpy and tired after being sick for a week so I apologize for the somewhat random thoughts that follow. Hope you can make sense of it.) I’ve been thinking about your post from the other day. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Superintendent Leading Change From the “Shameless Self-Promotion Dept.” I just wanted to share this 40-minute or so “interview” that my local superintendent Lisa Brady did with me last month and is now airing on local access television here in Central NJ. Nothing too much new here from me, but I think it’s great opportunity to hear a school [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Are Our Kids Ready for This? Take three minutes to watch this intro to MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) by Dave Cormier, who with some of his Canadian friends are running “Personal Learning Environments Networks and Knowledge 2010,” a free course that starts today. Then, consider the questions below: Questions: How important is it that we make our students ready for these types [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sugata Mitra’s New TED Talk “Education is a self organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.” So what are we to make of this? (Take the 17 minutes to watch the video…you won’t be disappointed.) I want to chime in here, obviously, but I am really interested at what questions, comments, etc. this provokes from educators. On one level, it’s inspiring [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website “Disposable Reform” Steve Hargadon held an interesting interview with Linda Darling-Hammond last week that covered, for the most part, the ideas in her new book “The Flat World and Education” as well as some of her earlier works like “The Right to Learn.” While I was hoping to hear her go a bit more into depth about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Unlearning Teaching Rather than teachers delivering an information product to be ‘consumed’ and fed back by the student, co-creating value would see the teacher and student mutually involved in assembling and dissembling cultural products. As co-creators, both would add value to the capacity building work being done through the invitation to ‘meddle’ and to make errors. The [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Education as Conspiracy I’ve always been a fan of Seth Godin who is one of those people who pushes my thinking on a regular basis and who can articulate the issues in an unusually clear way. And, I love his passion for what he believes. That in and of itself makes him great reading/listening. In this video linked by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yeah, You’ve Got Problems. So Solve Them. Recently during a presentation a teacher raised his hand and asked what is a fairly common question. “Look, I agree with most of what you’re saying, but I’ve got kids in my class who don’t have the devices, who don’t have the access,” he said. “What are we supposed to do when every student can’t do [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kids and the iPad For quite some time now, I’ve been holding up the NCTE definition of reading and writing literacy in the 21st Century and asking educators to measure themselves against it, and every time I read the “Create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts” I felt a pang of hypocrisy…I just haven’t gone there much, especially in [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transforming Learning…No, Really From the “Must Read 2010 Department” comes this most excellent report I just came across (released a few months ago) from Charles Leadbetter and Annika Wong writing for Cisco about “Learning from the Extremes” (.pdf warning.) It’s an instructive look (at least to me) at what options we face when it comes to the new [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The New National Ed Tech Plan…Pinch Me The first thing I want to say to the authors of the new National Ed Tech Plan (pdf) is this: DON’T TEASE ME. Please. I’m trying not to get overly optimistic here, but suffice to say, if the rhetoric is any indication of the direction, we may have actually turned a corner. Personalized learning Learning that is “lifelong and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teachers as Master Learners As we continue to have conversations around change with the 800 or so practitioners were working with in PLP, I continue to be struck by the frustration I’m feeling at the seeming separation between teaching and learning. I know that this isn’t new; I’ve been writing about teachers’ difficulties with being learners first here for [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Change Congress It’s no secret that Lawrence Lessig is one of my heroes in the way that he takes on meaningful efforts to change the world for (what I think, at least) good and his ability to articulate those efforts in compelling ways. It’s also no secret that over the past year I’ve become more disillusioned with [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I Don’t Need Your Network (or Your Computer, or Your Tech Plan, or Your…) I’ve been thinking a lot again about phones and about the disruption they are already creating for most schools (high schools at least) and about the huge brain shift we’re going to have to through collectively to capture the potential for learning in our kids’ pockets. A few particular items have kind of come together [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Obama/Duncan’s Reform Blackmail Reading this morning’s LA Times article about Governor Ah-nold’s latest recipe for “reforming” education in California, one word kept popping into my brain. “Blackmail.” What do you think the key words are in this lead? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called on legislators Thursday to adopt sweeping education reforms that would dramatically reshape California’s public education system and qualify the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website If Every Student Had a Computer So Sheryl and I have spent the last week here in Melbourne kicking off a four-month PLP project with 120 or so teachers from Victoria who are part of a pilot where all of their students will have netbooks in hand in the next few months. There seems to be a growing commitment here to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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 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 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 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 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 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