Reflecting on Mark Bauerline’s book The Dumbest Generation, we argue that today’s young people are not “dumb” because of their technology use; rather, it is adults’ responsibility to model and guide meaningful learning with digital tools.
We reflect on a recent post about 21st Century Skills for Teachers that drew 130+ comments and trackbacks, what that says about a growing, more connected network, the upsides and downsides of such intense participation, and the many new voices that joined the conversation.
Paul Allison shared an NCTE update that pushes us to think more expansively about literacy in the 21st century, emphasizing multiple, dynamic, and malleable literacies shaped by technology and connectivity.
School librarian Thomas Washington’s essay in the Christian Science Monitor argues that in an age of information overload, knowledge is less about acquiring more and more, and more about becoming proficient at tossing things out. We reflect on our own scanning-heavy reading habits, the guilt that comes with them, and the broader educator unease about what reading is becoming in a test-driven, information-saturated culture.
Tomorrow, Amazon is set to release “Kindle,” the digital book reader that holds over 200 books and does a whole lot more. We may be on the verge of moving one of the last bastions of the analog world online, raising questions about how connected, digital reading will change books, readers, and authorship.
Bud Hunt was nice enough to throw up a test of the CommentPress theme that allows paragraph by paragraph commenting, and we posted some session descriptions we were thinking about for the Learning 2.0 Conference we’ll be at in Shanghai in September.
The front page of today’s New York Times features a story about the attempts of Tim O’Reilly and Jimmy Wales to create a set of guidelines for “Web Civility” in the light of what happened with Kathy Sierra and others. Chief among the recommendations is that bloggers consider banning anonymous comments left by visitors to … Read more
Karl’s “Did You Know?” video has gone viral with over two million views, sparking powerful reactions in schools and helping set the stage for a much bigger conversation about education and learning.
Reflecting on what it means to be highly visible and “clickable” online, and why educators and students need to experience networked learning, not just publish content.
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