multifaceted web of intersecting concepts, ideas, and connections to peripheral fields — a bricolage
ded to participate in complex, ever-shifting real-world situations in which coming to know is as important as knowing.
Open courses provide educators and learners with an opportunity to develop the skills, knowledge, and mindsets needed to participate in complex, ever-shifting real-world situations in which coming to know is as important as knowing.
Open courses permit educators and a global network of learners to participate in research, learning, and sense-making around a given topic.
let the lab atmosphere pervade a school's every nook and cranny!
promote project-based, rather than subject-based, curricula to enable inquiry and discovery
Tinkering and prototyping
Some of the best examples of dynamic learning happen outside of school
Educators, scientists, architects, engineers, artists, technologists, designers, and kids can collaborate to re-envision the pedagogy and the learning environment needed to support STEM
In her role as Chief Digital Officer for the City of New York, Rachel Sterne is tasked with strengthening the City's digital media presence and streamlining internal digital communications. In her talk, Sterne demonstrated recent innovations that are shaping the city's future. Mentioning how city resident participation is crucial with a real-time approach, attendees were shown "The Daily Pothole," a Tumblr that tracks the D.O.T.'s progress in filling potholes in the five boroughs and its companion app, the roll-out of QR code technology on building permits, the NYC 311 app, as well as fielding service requests via Twitter.
When will we start incorporating the use of social media learning channels into the broader definition of what it means to be an education professional?
When will we renorm the education profession to include the expectation that teachers and administrators will use these tools to advance their own practice?
When will we view educators that opt out of the use of social media for professional learning as an aberration rather than the norm?
Design challenge: Design a 21st century learning space in a school, starting from one (or more) of three traditional school spaces: classroom, media/technology lab, or library.
What are key phrases, features, characteristics of 21st century learning that you will incorporate into your design? What mindset will be manifested in the space? What will it look like?
I ask the Turkish authorities to revoke the blocking provisions that prevent citizens from being part of today's global information society
What about Career Center students???