admin Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006” convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. 30- Nov. 3 with the theme “Unleashing the Potential.” A call … Read more
The whole integrating technology discussion that many have been chronicling of late has been sticking in our craw for a couple of reasons. It’s becoming exceedingly clear that we have an outdated perception of what teachers need to be and that perhaps we should be hiring learners first, not just traditional “teachers.”
Dave Cormier just Skyped us with a link to this article that details the patents on learning management systems that were just awarded to Blackboard. By the looks of it, Blackboard now owns learning management systems. The day the patent was awarded, Blackboard sued Desire2Learn for infringement, and although the Moodle board doesn’t seem to … Read more
So the dopey House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed DOPA, and we’ve got to get our acts together to make sure Senators have more of a clue about what’s happening with technology out here in the “real” world. We wonder how many of them come even close to “getting” everything that’s shifting and changing, the way … Read more
Mathcasts.org is a wiki collecting student-produced screencasts on math topics, offering teachers imaginative curriculum options and giving students a chance to teach instead of just being tested.
From the “Throw it Up and See if it Sticks Deptartment” we just put together a Digg-type site over at CrispyNews specifically for those of us who are focused on the Read/Write Web and the implications for education. Here’s how we think you could use it if you bought into it. First, go over to … Read more
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 we spent every spare moment reading and writing … Read more
Jeff Jarvis argues that in today’s media landscape, everybody is a network, and that networks are now about sharing, openness, and fluid participation rather than control and one-way distribution. This has powerful implications for education, where schools remain largely static, closed, and control-oriented, and where both teachers and students rarely get to develop true network literacy or practice working in distributed, collaborative environments.
We get the chance to address 49 Superintendents in Upstate NY and want to show them the power and potential of the Read/Write Web, what teachers and students are already doing, and the obstacles we need to discuss. If you had 90 minutes with this group, what one key challenge or message would you focus on?
Scott Leslie’s “Matrix of Some Blog Uses in Education” has been remixed into an interactive drag and drop tool that can help faculty and others brainstorm different ways to use blogs as an activity and process, not just an end product.