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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 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 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