http://weblogg-ed.com Learning with the Read/Write Web Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:33:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been reading Linda Darling-Hammond's new book The Flat World and Education, and while I'm finding it rich with detail about everything that's troubling about the US education system (and the potential fixes), I'm also struck by the fact that there is very little here in terms of a meaningful ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/the-pd-problem/ Recently a school administrator shared a story that reminded me why I need to spend more time talking to more people outside of the echo chamber. She said that a group of parents had requested a meeting to discuss the methods of a particular teacher and his use of technology. It ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/reality-check/ 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 ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/the-new-national-ed-tech-planpinch-me/ So here's a 5:30 am brain dump because I woke up thinking about all of the minds on fire at TEDxNYED yesterday and there's no way I'm going back to sleep, not with the brilliant voices the likes of Andy Carvin teaching me how social media can save people's lives, ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/tedxnyed-amazingso-what/ Apologies for not getting back to this last week as promised. As sometimes happens, life got in the way of blogging. Not regretting it at all, btw. ;0) So, whaddaya say we actually try to do something with these Big Questions, as in turn them into a document that schools can ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/time-for-action-the-big-questions/ 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 ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/teachers-as-master-learners/ First of all, thanks to all of you who chimed in as to how to go about crowdsourcing this idea. Some great ideas that I'm going to try to navigate here in an attempt to offer a consensus plan. And just for the record, I'm struggling a bit with what ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/the-big-questions-next-steps/ For those who may have missed it, or anyone who wants to relive the experience, here is the Elluminate session archive for the interview with Allan Collins and Richard Halverson, authors of Rethinking Education in an Era of Technology. The mind bending sometimes thought provoking chat is here. Thanks to everyone ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/collinshalverson-archive/ So as of today, 220 of you were kind enough to vote on what you thought were the 10 most important questions from the list that we generated at Educon. Here are the "winners" at the moment: How do we support the changing role of teacher? 116 What is the role of ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/the-big-questions-now-what/ Just wanted to give a quick heads up that I'll be interviewing Allan Collins and Richard Halverson, authors of Rethinking Education in an Age of Technology, this upcoming Monday night at 8 pm EST. More than any other in the past year, this book has really been pushing my thinking ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/re-thinking-education-interview-monday-night/ (Note: Your participation is requested below…) So it’s taken me a couple of weeks to get to this reflection on the conversation I led at Educon. I hope those in attendance and online feel as I do that it was a pretty compelling session, and I like the fact that we ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/continuing-the-educon-conversation/ So I ran across this Smart Ease of Use video in the course of one of our threads in a PLP cohort and I have to say, I can't seem to shake it. I mean, maybe I'm missing something here, but if this is a vision of "transformative" technology, we're ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/transformative-technology-really/ If I could put in a few phrases what I took away from this year's Educon experience it was this: Stop complaining. Be the change. Love your students and do well by them. If that includes technology, so be it. And it was those first two that stood out, for me at ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/educon-22/ (Cross posted to the PLP Network blog) One of my favorite things that Sheryl says when she talks about the challenges that schools face right now is that this generation of kids in our schools is the first not to have a choice about technology. Most of us grew up in ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/no-choice/ 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 ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2010/change-congress/