The greatest gain will come from the collective
knowledge and experience of the
education community. Infrastructure
must be invented and implemented that
cultivates an ongoing professional conversation
across the entire education
landscape.
Warlick's Open Letter to the Next President - 0 views
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David Warlick has four things the POTUS ought to know about making U.S. schools better. Last month I posted a manifesto of sorts to my Web site. I was following a meme started by a group of other edubloggers called "Five things policymakers ought to know!" T&L editors asked me to tweak it a bit to give our next President some big-picture twenty-first-century education advice. Here's my take.
From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments | Academic Commons - 0 views
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The message of Wikipedia is not “trust authority” but “explore authority.” Authorized information is not beyond discussion on Wikipedia, information is authorized through discussion, and this discussion is available for the world to see and even participate in. This culture of discussion and participation is now available on any website with the emerging “second layer” of the web through applications like Diigo which allow you to add notes and tags to any website anywhere.
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Many faculty may hope to subvert the system, but a variety of social structures work against them.
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Our physical structures were built prior to an age of infinite information, our social structures formed to serve different purposes than those needed now, and the cognitive structures we have developed along the way now struggle to grapple with the emerging possibilities.
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