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Tue, 13 May 2008 13:04:27 -0000

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A listing of social networks used in educational environments. Please add to this list (alphabetical by category and within categories).

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Posted by: sarahhanawald

The Future of Libraries | it's iNavis ... the teacher technologist

Tue, 13 May 2008 11:49:18 -0000

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What is the role of the librarian? Libraries came about due to a limited resource landscape. That landscape is changing drastically right now. The role of the librarian today is

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Posted by: scmorgan

The Cognitive Age - New York Times

Sat, 10 May 2008 15:50:35 -0000

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The globalization paradigm has led, in the political arena, to a certain historical narrative: There were once nation-states like the U.S. and the European powers, whose economies could be secured within borders. But now capital flows freely. Technology has leveled the playing field. Competition is global and fierce.

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Posted by: scmorgan

Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:16:02 -0000

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Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. In fact, the more new things we try — the more we step outside our comfort zone — the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

“The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,” says Dawna Markova, author of “The Open Mind” and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. “But we are taught instead to ‘decide,’ just as our president calls himself ‘the Decider.’ ” She adds, however, that “to decide is to kill off all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring the many other possibilities.”

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Posted by: scmorgan

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes Everybody

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:54:52 -0000

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If I had to pick the critical technology for the 20th century, the bit of social lubricant without which the wheels would've come off the whole enterprise, I'd say it was the sitcom. Starting with the Second World War a whole series of things happened--rising GDP per capita, rising educational attainment, rising life expectancy and, critically, a rising number of people who were working five-day work weeks. For the first time, society forced onto an enormous number of its citizens the requirement to manage something they had never had to manage before--free time.

It's better to do something than to do nothing.

We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?"

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Posted by: scmorgan

21st Century Education: Thinking Creatively at Students 2.0

Tue, 06 May 2008 13:00:00 -0000

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Twenty-first century education won’t be defined by any new technology. It won’t be defined by 1:1 laptop programs or tech-intensive projects. Twenty-first century education will, however, be defined by a fundamental shift in what we are teaching—a shift towards learner-centered education and creating creative thinkers.

The need to know the capital of Florida died when my phone learned the answer. Rather, the students of tomorrow need to be able to think creatively: they will need to learn on their own, adapt to new challenges and innovate on-the-fly

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Posted by: scmorgan

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:47:15 -0000

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The original World Wide Web—the “Web 1.0” that emerged in the mid-1990s—vastly expanded access to information. The Open Educational Resources movement is an example of the impact that the Web 1.0 has had on education. But the Web 2.0, which has emerged in just the past few years, is sparking an even more far-reaching revolution. Tools such as blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging systems, mashups, and content-sharing sites are examples of a new user-centric information infrastructure that emphasizes participation (e.g., creating, re-mixing) over presentation, that encourages focused conversation and short briefs (often written in a less technical, public vernacular) rather than traditional publication, and that facilitates innovative explorations, experimentations, and purposeful tinkerings that often form the basis of a situated understanding emerging from action, not passivity.

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Posted by: scmorgan

21st Century Learning: Learning2.0

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:37:15 -0000

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Independent school culture is such that teachers need to make certain they build on the rich heritage of what works and yet make room to rethink delivery of AP courses and such so that these kids not only get into some of the most prestigious colleges around, but they are fluent in the new literacies when they arrive.

Web 2.0 – and ultimately School 2.0 -- is all about this two-way or group communication. The Web is no longer just a place to search for resources. It’s a place to find people, to exchange ideas, to demonstrate our creativity before an audience. The Internet has become not only a great curriculum resource but a great learning resource. The second generation Web is in fact, laying the foundation for ideas such as Classroom 2.0, Teacher 2.0 and Learning 2.0.

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Posted by: scmorgan

Transitioning to Web 2.0: Using Blogs to Promote Authentic Learning in the Classroom

Mon, 05 May 2008 23:25:36 -0000

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Why Schools Don't Educate - The Natural Child Project

Sat, 03 May 2008 15:19:45 -0000

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The world's narcotic economy is based upon our own consumption of the commodity, if we didn't buy so many powdered dreams the business would collapse - and schools are an important sales outlet.

Senator Ted Kennedy's office released a paper not too long ago claiming that prior to compulsory education the state literacy rate was 98% and after it the figure never again reached above 91% where it stands in 1990

in the United States almost nobody who reads, writes or does arithmetic gets much respect. We are a land of talkers,

Tags: education independent teaching

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Diablo Valley School, a Concord California Sudbury School - Serving Elementary Middle and High School age kids in the surrounding communities of Walnut Creek, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, Lafayette, Pittsburg, Antioch. Children experience Democracy, Freedom &

Sat, 03 May 2008 15:17:45 -0000

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I heard a vice-president of IBM tell an audience of people assembled to redesign the process of teacher certification that in his opinion this country became computer-literate by self-teaching, not through any action of schools. He said 45 million people were comfortable with computers who had learned through dozens of non-systematic strategies, none of them very formal; if schools had pre-empted the right to teach computer use we would be in a horrible mess right now instead of leading the world in this literacy.

In modern society, said Dewey, people would be defined by their associations--not by their own individual accomplishments. It such a world people who read too well or too early are dangerous because they become privately empowered, they know too much, and know how to find out what they don't know by themselves, without consulting experts

Dewey said the great mistake of traditional pedagogy was to make reading and writing constitute the bulk of early schoolwork.

New York State, for instance, employs more school administrators than all of the European Economic Community nations combined.

rederich Froebel, the inventor of kindergarten in 19th century Germany, fashioned his idea he did not have a "garden for children" in mind, but a metaphor of teachers as gardeners and children as the vegetables.

Kindergarten was created to be a way to break the influence of mothers on their children.

Violence, narcotic addictions, divorce, alcoholism, loneliness...all these are but tangible measures of a poverty in education.

Tags: education independent teaching

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Making Wikis Work for Scholars

Fri, 02 May 2008 17:17:34 -0000

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Interesting take on wikis and scholarly research, coursework, etc. posted by jramsden

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Posted by: jramsden

Informal Style of Electronic Messages Is Showing Up in Schoolwork, Study Finds - New York Times

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:52:42 -0000

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“I think in the future, capitalization will disappear,” said Professor Sterling, who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley. In fact, he said, when his teenage son asked what the presence of the capital letter added to what the period at the end of the sentence signified, he had no answer.

What a powerful prognostication... posted by jramsden

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Posted by: jramsden

SIMILE | Exhibit 2.0

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:56:00 -0000

Tags: education technology web2.0

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Study: Teens See Disconnect Between Personal and School Writing : April 2008 : THE Journal

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:23:41 -0000

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Study: Teens See Disconnect Between Personal and School Writing

by Dave Nagel

Extra Credit
Student Writing and Internet Usage

According to the Pew/National Commission on Writing study, 50 percent of teens write something for school every day. Ninety-four percent use the Internet for research for their school assignments at least occasionally, and 48 percent sad they use the Internet for research at least once per week.

More Information

Study: Writing, Technology and Teens (PDF)

--D. Nagel

Students see a distinction between the writing they do for school and the writing they do in their personal lives. While the vast majority of 12- to 17-year-olds (85 percent) engage in some form of electronic writing--IM, e-mail, blog posts, text messages, etc.--most (60 percent) don't consider this actual writing. That's one of the findings from a study released last week by the Pew Internet & American Life Project and the National Commission on Writing for America’s Families, Schools and Colleges.

Tags: english teaching technology web2.0 writing

Posted by: sarahhanawald

Dipity Anotated and Illustrated Timelines

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:31:24 -0000

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This one is really great. The timeline can be embedded in webpages! posted by scmorgan

Tags: collaboration timelines web2.0

Posted by: sarahhanawald

When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web - washingtonpost.com

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:41:27 -0000

Tags: managing online presence new faculty social networking

Posted by: jramsden

WebTools4u2use » Webtools4U2Use

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:47:28 -0000

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The purpose of this website is to provide a place for K-12 school library media specialists to learn a little more about web tools that can be used to improve and enhance school library media programs and services, to see examples of how they can be used, and to share success stories and creative ideas about how to use and integrate them. Hundreds of free and inexpensive web tools are available for school library media specialists to use that can make us more productive, valued, and, perhaps, more competitive.

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Posted by: scmorgan

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Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:45:23 -0000

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These floating sticky notes are interesting when you're sharing them with a group. Does anyone else have trouble seeing embedded content on this page at school? I think it is my school firewall that is blocking some of the embedded items. At home, I see it all fine. I added the "weekly feature" item on 4-27-08, because I was so struck by that stack of slides from David Truss. posted by demetri

This network is a forum for discussing education and is a laboratory for experimenting with social-educational networking, blogging, wikis, social bookmarking, and multimedia. Educators and students are encouraged to participate and contribute to this virtual community.

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Posted by: demetri