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Bradford Saron

Google Set to Launch E-Book Venture - WSJ.com - 0 views

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    To the cloud with books! Google is going to prompt another revolution, this time with books, which will change how we access and purchase books forever. With Googles' new Google Editions, we will be able to access the digital book from anywhere we have access to the internet, such as a phone, desktop, laptop, Ipad, etc. We may also purchase books from the publisher directly. Interesting read. Education application? Hmmmm.
Bradford Saron

Education in the Age of Globalization » Blog Archive » My new book: World Cla... - 0 views

  • This book is the result of my attempts to answer these questions with data and evidence from a variety of sources. Essentially, I reached the following conclusions: The current education reform efforts that attempt to provide a common, homogenous, and standardized educational experience, e.g., the Common Core Standards Initiative in the U.S., are not only futile but also harmful to preparing our children for the future. Massive changes brought about by population growth, technology, and globalization not only demand but also create opportunities for “mass entrepreneurship” and thus require everyone to be globally minded, creative, and entrepreneurial. Entrepreneurship is no longer limited to starting or owning a business, but is expanded to social entrepreneurship, policy entrepreneurship, and intrapreneurship. Traditional schooling aims to prepare employees rather than creative entrepreneurs. As a result the more successful traditional schooling is (often measured by test scores in a few subjects), the more it stifles creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit. To cultivate creative and entrepreneurial talents is much more than adding an entrepreneurship course or program to the curriculum. It requires a paradigm shift—from employee-oriented education to entrepreneur-oriented education, from prescribing children’s education to supporting their learning, and from reducing human diversity to a few employable skills to enhancing individual talents. The elements of entrepreneur-oriented education have been proposed and practiced by various education leaders and institutions for a long time but they have largely remained on the fringe. What we need to do is to move them to the mainstream for all children.
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    @YongZhaoUO and his new book. Note the conclusions. 
Bradford Saron

Main Page - The Foundations of Instructional Technology - 0 views

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    Half website, half hybrid textbook, this "book" has a lot of resoruces you would normally have immediate access to. My favorite part is the presetnation section. 
Paul Blanford

Review - The Connected Educator - 1 views

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    Finished reading the Connected Educator. As we discussed in class, much of what we are doing is the same as outlined in this book. It is evident that since this book's publishing, there are many new and improved versions of these tools and ideas. This is a great book and I plan to use it as a resource in the future. I purchased the electronic version and have found that there were disadvantages to me versus the hard copy.
Paul Blanford

A Review: Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work - 1 views

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    Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour and Robert Eaker revisited their work on PLCs and published a sequel to their book on PLCs. In the sequel, they discuss their thoughts, "New Insights" on PLCs. The publisher, Solution Tree provides an "Action Guide" to assist the reader in understanding the findings/discussions described in the new book.
Bradford Saron

For the Love of Laptops | Scholastic.com - 0 views

  • The iPad is a consumption device. Sure, you can use it for Web browsing, video-watching, or note-taking, but the laptop affords a much greater range of expressive possibilities. Apple’s embrace of digital textbooks reinforces a quaint view of education that transfers agency from learners to publishers. The tools for creating e-books, such as iBooks Author, require Macs, but the laptop cannot read the books it creates, forcing schools to choose between textbooks and computing. Apple has made it clear that education is about content delivery and testing, no longer about the power to be your best.
  • Tablets could have all the functionality of a laptop, but they don’t. Until they do, I recommend that schools invest in laptops for student use.
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    I love Gary Stager. Not only one of the foremost experts on 1:1, but also a master at sarcasm. 
Bradford Saron

Douglas Rushkoff - Blog - 'Present Shock': The Future Isn't a Book, It's a Vi... - 2 views

  • "Twentieth century problems could be won, they had bad guys that could be beaten. You could go to the moon and stick a flag in the ground. But 21st century problems don’t have clear end points. Global warming, terrorism, child starvation: these are chronic problems that we can’t address through victory, but rather through developing sustainable, real time models or behaviors. These are not things you win, they’re things you learn to deal with and abate."
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    I love this. Lots to think about here. 
Bradford Saron

comics - 0 views

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    Great resource for comic books for classroom use.
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    Who doesn't like comics?
Bradford Saron

The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning-Report - 0 views

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    According to this report, all we have to do to "fix" education and reform for kids is to, adopt Apex Learning as our content provider, adopt PowerSchool as our SIS, adopt Blackboard as our MIS and online grade-book, and adopt NWEA MAP as our assessment tool. See, problem solved. 
Bradford Saron

Books and Band Saws: the Future of Libraries | MindShift - 0 views

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    The concept of hackerspaces and fab labs are really taking hold. Neat ideas, but how will NCLB measure the results? (Can you sense the sarcasm?) 
Guy Leavitt

"In the book" video - 4 views

shared by Guy Leavitt on 26 Oct 10 - Cached
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    Video showing the transfer between scrolls and books. Funny.
Bradford Saron

Seth's Blog: Deliberately uninformed, relentlessly so [a rant] - 0 views

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    "Access to knowledge, for the first time in history, is largely unimpeded for the middle class. Without effort or expense, it's possible to become informed if you choose. For less than your cable TV bill, you can buy and read an important book every week. Share the buying with six friends and it costs far less than coffee. Or you can watch TV"
Bradford Saron

Needed: A New Model of Pedagogy : : Don Tapscott - 1 views

  • We need to move to a customized and collaborative model that embraces 21st century learning technology and techniques.  This is not about technology per se – it’s about a change in the relationship between the student and teacher in the learning process.
  • So Portugal launched the biggest program in the world to equip every child in the country with a laptop and access to the web and the world of collaborative learning. To pay for it, Portugal tapped into both government funds and money from mobile operators who were granted 3G licenses. That subsidized the sale of one million ultra-cheap laptops to teachers, school children, and adult learners. Here’s how it works: If you’re a teacher or a student, you can buy a laptop for 150 Euros (U.S. $207). You also get a discounted rate for broadband Internet access, wired or wireless. Low income students get an even bigger discount, and connected laptops are free or virtually free for the poorest kids. For the youngest students in Grades 1 to 4, the laptop/Internet access deal is even cheaper — 50 Euros for those who can pay; free for those who can’t. That’s only the start: Portugal has invested 400 million Euros to makes sure each classroom has access to the Internet. Just about every classroom in the public system now has an interactive smart board, instead of the old fashioned blackboard.
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    Don Tapscott is the author of a number of books on understanding the digital native. 
Bradford Saron

Infographic: How Do Teachers Think We Should Measure Student Achievement? -... - Stumbl... - 0 views

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    Click into the "Launch Infographic" and take a look at this survey. I'm big on looking for subscript and reading beyond the lines. I wonder what this says of rigor, engagement, and mastery essential skills or critical thinking. Suggested further reading to find out about engagement and assessment? Marzano's new book on student engagement. Awesome. My copy actually has real highlighted text all over the pages. 
Bradford Saron

20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web - 2 views

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    This is an example of an online book, which has been created (a bit tongue in cheek) to educate people about the potentials, trends, and recent developments of the web and about browsers. This is great for people still acquiring the basic understanding/conception of the internet.
Bradford Saron

iPhone and Education - Johnsen's Tech Exploration - 3 views

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    The cost of an Iphone now is very close to the cost of a net book or a solid state computer. I think we should also explore the option of investing in bandwidth and filtering so that students can bring their own computers to school. The cost is not that different from phones now, students can mass personalize their computer, and then there is no issue with personal overlap. It's their computer. With cloud computing, students just have access to their Google accounts through bandwidth, not the network. Food for thought. 
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    You and I see the value in this and many school board members do as well. We have to help our communities understand the value. I worked with a board the other night that totally gets the need for integrating technology into the curriculum. Their concern was the community: "They think paper and pencil is good enough." You cannot ignore this perspective, because if enough people in your community agree with that idea, you will lose the tech supporter board members at election time. This turnover in leadership does not lead to long-term systemic change (which needs to include the integration of technology).
Bradford Saron

YouTube - Sir Ken Robinson answers your Twitter questions (#askSKR) - Question 6: The j... - 0 views

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    Sir Ken Robinson answers questions from twitter in this series. Here, he works in a preview to his next book. Can't wait to see him in January at WASB!
Bradford Saron

19 Top Ideas for Education in Drive by Daniel Pink | Connected Principals - 3 views

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    Great post reviewing Dan Pink's book, Drive. 
Bradford Saron

Upcoming book: What school administrators need to know about digital technologies and s... - 0 views

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    Great list of resources to help us "get it" so that we can "lead it." 
Bradford Saron

for the love of learning: Carol Dweck's Mindsets - 0 views

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    This is a neat infographic on Carol Dweck's new book about "Mindsets" to learning and growing cognitively. 
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