Posted in ed tech planning, infrastructure, k-12 education, learning, one laptop per child, student empowerment, transformation, virtualization, tagged empowerment, Negroponte, OLPC, one to one computing, ubiquitous computing, virtualization, vision on May 28, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Amid the fast changing world of educational technology, a new and exciting vision is emerging; one that ultimately has the potential to transform teaching and learning. What is that vision? At the highest level it is one of ubiquitous student access to the tools and resources of learning.
Just exactly how does ubiquitous access transform teaching [...]
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Posted in accountability, educational technology, leadership, learning, purpose, value, tagged anxiety, balance, commitments, deliberateness, overwhelm on May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Technology can be complex, and the students, teachers, and staff that use it can be even more so. We can spend our days putting our fires, supporting our colleagues, answering phone calls, and pulling special reports for our Superintendent, to list just a few of our responsibilities. Sometimes we get swept away by the swift [...]
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Cross-posted at the ClassLink blog.
Benjamin Mako Hill, in his recent article, “One Laptop per Child Liberation” explores the philosophy behind Nicholas Negroponte’s XO laptop’s operating system, and the OLPC project. Hill writes in response to news reports that Microsoft (see latest announcement) is working to get a slimmed down version of its operating system running [...]
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Posted in learning on May 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In my recent post the “Three ‘E’s”, I make the case that the true evolution of public education should track from teachers who ‘Entertain their students’, to teachers who ‘engage’ their students, and finally to teachers who ‘empower’ their students.
The post generated some interesting questions:
1. What’s wrong with being an ‘entertaining/cool’ teacher?
There is nothing ‘wrong’ [...]
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Posted in learning on May 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »
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How successful we are in transforming education is dependent on the stories we tell. The Vikings may have discovered the New World; but it was Columbus that brought back the stories that stirred imaginations in the courts of Europe. Centuries later, it was the stories of endless, fertile lands lying unclaimed in the mid-west that [...]
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Posted in John Taylor Gatto, constructivist learning, educational technology, how children learn, k-12 education, learning, student empowerment, student leadership, transformation, tagged constructivism, empowerment, engagement, John Taylor Gatto on May 6, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In a recent post I laid out a host of strategies that have been put forth by educators in an attempt to ‘fix’ whatever is ailing our schools. I asked, “What would you do?“. I understand that we need to do more than one thing at a time; but one key area I’d change is [...]
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Cross posted at Touchstones:
Today I received one of the greatest gifts of my life. My daughter, Colleen, who is 20 years old and a student at Rutgers University, has discovered one of her gifts and let her voice come forth. She has never had a voice lesson and she has never really shared her singing [...]
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