The 21st century has changed the game completely. The infrastructure is driven by the continual advances in computing, storage and bandwidth. There's no stability in sight.
Free as in Freedom: The Power of Pull - John Seely Brown - 0 views
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In a world of increasingly rapid change, the half life of a given skill is constantly shrinking and the predictability of future needs is increasingly less certain. We're having to move from stocks to flows. This means we move from protecting knowledge assets to participating in knowledge flows. This means that our learning strategy moves to having a strong tacit component as against a hoarding mindset of stocking knowledge.
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We're creating a lot of information everyday more in every two days than we did from the dawn of man to 2003.
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Innovate - Backwards into the Future: Seven Principles for Educating the Ne(x)t Generation - 0 views
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In contrast to traditional English courses, which are mostly paper-based, our reading materials can all be found on the Web, and the students present their work in the form of interactive Web pages that are accessible to everyone in the class, thereby forging a virtual learning community to parallel the physical community of the classroom.
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Teaching to the future, we contend, involves forging pathways for our students that we do not necessarily intend to travel ourselves.
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With each new iteration of Poetry off the Page, our students' expertise has driven the course design, rather than vice versa.
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The Tech Curve: RSU #19 Google Apps for Education Plan - 0 views
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Great description of how one school district is using Google Apps for lifelong learning and teaching. Wonderful embedded video on advantages to migrating over to Google Email for educational institutions. Terrific description of how this school district in Maine is creating a scaffolded portfolio system that gives students increasing responsibility over their portfolio as they move from one grade level to the next, culminating in providing each graduating senior with his/her own domain name to use as their '21st century business card'.
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: A New Culture of Learning: An Interview with John ... - 0 views
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