Cognitive Interfund Transfer

More on how Personal Learning Communities interface with personal learning networks and now powerful learning practice, all of which are interesting concepts. 

Wisconsin earned a B. 

Flipped classroom cautions - Brings up points about whether flipped classrooms provide engagement.

This was a post on Scott McLeod's site that was interesting.

Interesting. It's a very complete overview of the equipment needed for a state-of-art podcasting studio. Hmmmmm. 

For schools to prepare all children for success in life and the workforce, severe disparities in family income, coupled with inadequate education funding and low expectations can no longer be widely accepted causes of inequity in student opportunity. Lastly, we must all give a damn. The "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" mentality only works if everyone can afford boots. Everyone can contribute a little of their time and resources toward ending inequity in opportunity and expectations.

Great overview of the choice between Chromebooks and tablets. 

For schools looking to utilize Chromebooks as their 1:1 device. 

A PLC focuses on learning instead of on teaching, drastically changing the role of the  principal. Principals continue to observe instruction, discussing issues such as pacing,  instructional data, support needed, and student efficacy. But the focus is on the instructional  results instead of on the instruction itself

This is Clay Shirky's video explaining cognitive surplus, which is where we get our name, Cognitive Interfund Transfer. 

Ian Jukes

A great piece of advice about the annual back to school letter.

A great resource on Web tools

Thanks - very useful!

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs. The article blends well with Clay Shirky's analysis of the death of print. This is why. 

I am a fan of mindmapping web 2.0 sites, especially how they are embeddable in other media. Here are a list of (most free) mindmapping tools/apps. Happy exploring!

The Building Learning Communities Conference (Alan November's Project) has a number of great videos. For you fans of the Kansas State University Professor Michael Wesch, here is one of his 2010 presentations. Wesch presented at the fall WASDA conference in 2009. It was awesome. 

I know rural Wisconsin holds a special place in your heart and I appreciate that. AND we need to think about how Milwaukee is going to handle the challenges coming down the pike. One thing in common for urban Milwaukee and the rural areas of the state: K-12 education that prepares kids for post-secondary education.

I love this type of information. Note that the panel of "experts" on determining what the most livable cities exhibit as successful characteristics includes two education experts, one of which will be presenting at the WASB convention in January. Looks like anyone can sign up for the event on 11/11/2010 (3:00 central time?) Note that Richard Florida (who wrote Rise of the Creative Class) is also a panelist.

Ok, this is all from Cisco, but some of it is really valuable. The whitepaper on Education 3.0 is very interesting. Additionally, the link below is a recent screencast on Education 3.0. You will have to go through a bit of a "sign up" type screen before getting access to the Cisco screencast, but I recommend it. The superintendent from NY who follows the Cisco rep is really good.  https://ciscosales.webex.com/ciscosales/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=47315262&rKey=fb74b1bb0a6e38ec