Independence
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November 3, 2010
Two big shifts (and one big problem)
- Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
- Video: Did You Know? 4.0
- Video: Learning to change
- The status quo no longer suffices: An open letter to the Ames (IA) School Board
- Creating the new paradigm: Educational technology policy priorities
- The Iowa series – Wrap-up
- Notes from India – My TEDx talk
- Many service jobs will become globalized piece work
- Does your school organization reflect our new digital information landscape?
- Don’t teach your kids this stuff, please?
- We can’t let educators off the hook
Some random thoughts
- Scott’s slides (pptx ppt)
- Video: Mastering low-level content
- Video: Teacher movie (and administrator movie!)
- Video: BBC – Adventure
- Model schools (that you can visit): United States (see the networks at bottom too), International
- Help wanted – sites that connect classrooms across the globe
- Help wanted – Building a new secondary school
Every educator should have a listening station
- Caitlin (at the Extreme Biology blog)
- Kathy Cassidy’s classroom blog (see also Dalton)
- VoiceThread: Who was Helen Keller?, Chemistry Experiment
- Wikis: Primary Math, Science Alive, Flat Classroom Project
- Podcasting: Portable Radio, Jamestown
- Skype: Inclusion, Brian Crosby
- Online video: Mabry Middle School Film Festival, SFETT, Meet Roger Wilcox, YouTube QuickCapture
- Cell phones in learning
- Google Maps: street view, add own data, add own photos
- SlideShare
- WallWisher
- Mind42
- Flickr
- The Number Warrior
- Teaching The Civil War With Technology
- RSS in Plain English
- Google Reader
- Blogs
- Great blogs for busy administrators
Stay in touch and contact me if you’re interested in CASTLE’s surveys for students, parents, teachers, and administrators [NOT for public dissemination, please]
Resources
Recommended reading
- The Global Achievement Gap
- Curriculum 21
- Disrupting Class
- Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
- 21st Century Skills (Bellanca & Brandt)
- Here Comes Everybody
- Everything is Miscellaneous
- What Would Google Do?
- Caught in the Middle [if rural]
- Hollowing Out the Middle [if rural]
- Cognitive Surplus
- 21st Century Skills (Trilling & Fadel)
- Tough Choices or Tough Times
- Blown to Bits
- Everyware
- Wikinomics
- A Whole New Mind
- Born Digital
- Grown Up Digital
- Growing Up Digital
- and more…
Recommended viewing
- Did You Know? (Shift Happens)
- Chris Lehmann speaks to the FCC
- Learning to change
- 21st century pedagogy
- Current leadership models are inadequate for disruptive innovations
- Information Revolution
- Generation We
- Digital Kids @ Analog Schools
- Welcome to Your World
- We Think
- A Brave New World-Wide Web
- Networked Student
- A View of 21st Century Learners
- Kevin Kelly at TED
- Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF
- Sir Ken Robinson at TED
- Brewster Kahle at TED
- Free Range Learning
- The Human Network
- The Fourth Screen
- The Essay
- Introducing the Book