http://weblogg-ed.com Learning with the Read/Write Web Sat, 04 Jul 2009 21:19:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Arrived at NECC in time for the morning keynote debate about whether or not bricks and mortar schools impede learning. It wasn't a great question to begin with, because I don't think anyone really thinks it's an either or, either online or face to face, but a combination that's going ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/lawsuits-what-lawsuits/ A couple of Friday nights ago I may have made a big mistake: I went to bed at 11. It's not that I stayed up too late. Instead it's that I might have gone to bed too early. If I'd had my wits about me, perhaps I could have prevented ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/cuddle-bug-im-not/ Steve Hargadon hosted a panel discussion the other night on the topic of "The Future of Books and Reading" and I was honored to take part with Maggie Tsai of Diigo, Travis Alber and Aaron Miller of BookGlutton, and author Bob Burg. It's no secret that I'm a huge fan ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/cloud-books/ Just a couple of quotes that I've run across of late to add to the reading and writing conversation. I love this one by Donal Leu: Another difference from earlier models of print comprehension is the inclusion of communication within online reading comprehension. Online reading and writing are so closely connected ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/writing-on-the-internet/ If you've been following the news out of Iran the last few days, odds are you're following it very differently from even a few years ago. Ten years ago, most of what I would have learned would have come from the TV news or the New York Times the day ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/iranelections-why-we-all-need-to-be-editors-now/ The American Press Institute is making a number of recommendations to newspapers to create successful new models, and their number one suggestion is: BECOME PART OF THE SOCIAL WEB. Newspaper executives should take it as a personal and professional challenge to participate in social media: Share photos and video online. Follow ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/a-cocktail-party-filled-with-educators/ Had a great conversation with my friend and former colleague Rob Mancabelli the other day about the challenges that individual teachers face in understanding and, more importantly, practicing learning in these online spaces. Rob started a blog for a bit a few years ago, one that I thought was exceptional, ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/the-web-as-human-development/ So in case you don't know it, I've got kids. They'll be 12 and 10 this summer (omg) which makes me perk up when I run across magazine covers like this one from Time last week titled "The Future of Work." Throw away the briefcase: you're not going to the office. ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/the-future-of-my-kids-work/ So it's been a while since I've turned to my blog, obviously. Just felt like I needed a break, some time to get some balance and reconfigure my thinking a bit. It's been good, and for what it's worth, I've been growing a list of things I want to write ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/if-we-could-start-over-what-would-we-build/ So here's a question I was discussing a couple of weeks ago with a superintendent at a gathering of educational leaders: What percentage of the teachers at your school do a good job of preparing kids to take meet the requirements, pass the tests, and get prepared for college, and ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/wanted-school-chief-learning-officer/ From Deborah Meier on Bridging Differences in what is unquestionably one of the most powerful paragraphs about education I've read in a long time: As long as we use test scores as our primary evidence for being poorly educated we reinforce the connection—and the bad teaching to which it leads. If ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/quote-of-the-month/ It's been a few days since John Pederson posted this Tweet, but I've been thinking about that phrasing a lot ever since. It's pretty obvious that as my professional life has changed, my interest has been moving away from classroom practice more toward individual learning and how we help educators ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/continual-collaborative-on-the-job-learning/ A great essay by Steven Johnson in the Wall Street Journal this weekend "How the E-Book Will Change the Way we Read and Write" has me thinking hard once again about reading and writing skills and literacies as we move toward an even more digitally integrated world of texts and ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/new-reading-new-writing/ My nine-year old Tucker plays AAU basketball for a struggling inner-city team about 30 minutes from where we live. His teammates call him "Shadow" and most times we are the only white family in the gym for games and practice. We (mostly my wife Wendy) haul his (and his sister's) ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/failing-our-kids/ 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 ... http://weblogg-ed.com/2009/writing-to-build-the-larger-conversation/