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Jonathan Schmid

A Manifesto For Free Radicals: Less Paperwork, Less Waiting, More Action :: Articles ::... - 57 views

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    Free Radicals are resilient, self-reliant, and extremely potent. You'll find them working solo, in small teams, or within large companies. They're everywhere, and they're crafting the future.
paul lowe

The Wealth of Networks » Chapter 1: Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and... - 0 views

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    Yochai Benkler's wealth of nations book online Next Chapter: Part I: The Networked Information Economy » read paragraph Chapter 1: Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge 1 Information, knowledge, and culture are central to human freedom and human development. How they are produced and exchanged in our society critically affects the way we see the state of the world as it is and might be; who decides these questions; and how we, as societies and polities, come to understand what can and ought to be done. For more than 150 years, modern complex democracies have depended in large measure on an industrial information economy for these basic functions. In the past decade and a half, we have begun to see a radical change in the organization of information production. Enabled by technological change, we are beginning to see a series of economic, social, and cultural adaptations that make possible a radical transformation of how we make the information environment we occupy as autonomous individuals, citizens, and members of cultural and social groups. It seems passé today to speak of "the Internet revolution." In some academic circles, it is positively naïve. But it should not be. The change brought about by the networked information environment is deep. It is structural. It goes to the very foundations of how liberal markets and liberal democracies have coevolved for almost two centuries.
Jon Tanner

BYOD is the "most radical shift" in the workplace since the PC - 2 views

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    Last year, research firm Gartner heralded the bring-your-own-device, or BYOD, phenomenon as the "most radical shift in enterprise client computing since the introduction of the PC." Such headlines often smack of hyperbole but so far, BYOD has lived up to expectations. If we are preparing students for the world of work, BYOD has to be part of that. Companies are experiencing the same challenges that schools are.
Jennie Snyder

Five Twitter Hashtags That Can SAVE School Leaders Time - The Tempered Radical - 6 views

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    Great blog post by Bill Ferriter (The Tempered Radical) on the five essential Twitter hashtags that will help ed leaders access quality content efficiently.
Ed Webb

Meet the EduPunks: Radical Self-educators Start a Movement - 68 views

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    "If that spirit is missing from the university, then the university has to find a way to recapture that spirit and to be a platform for it." Ahhh!, there lies the rub...how to take "apathetic" students and help/guide/persuade them to "recapture that spirit. For that, there is no canned program, but requires true teaching skills with a compassion for learning. With accountability for teachers and students alike measured by test scores, this 'spirit' is not being nurtured. So, where is the radical reform?
Marc Safran

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants - 1 views

  • Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
  • today's students think and process information fundamentally differently from their predecessors
  • we can say with certainty that their thinking patterns have changed
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  • The importance of the distinction is this: As Digital Immigrants learn - like all immigrants, some better than others - to adapt to their environment, they always retain, to some degree, their "accent," that is, their foot in the past.
  • There are hundreds of examples of the digital immigrant accent. 
  • our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language
  • Digital Immigrant teachers assume that learners are the same as they have always been, and that the same methods that worked for the teachers when they were students will work for their students now. But that assumption is no longer valid. Today's learners are different.
  • So what should happen?  Should the Digital Native students learn the old ways, or should their Digital Immigrant educators learn the new? 
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  • learn to communicate in the language and style of their students
  • it does mean going faster, less step-by step, more in parallel, with more random access, among other thing
  • kinds of content
  • As educators, we need to be thinking about how to teach both Legacy and Future content in the language of the Digital Natives.
  • Adapting materials to the language of Digital Natives has already been done successfully.  My own preference for teaching Digital Natives is to invent computer games to do the job, even for the most serious content.
  • "Why not make the learning into a video game!
  • But while the game was easy for my Digital Native staff to invent, creating the content turned out to be more difficult for the professors, who were used to teaching courses that started with "Lesson 1 – the Interface."  We asked them instead to create a series of graded tasks into which the skills to be learned were embedded. The professors had made 5-10 minute movies to illustrate key concepts; we asked them to cut them to under 30 seconds. The professors insisted that the learners to do all the tasks in order; we asked them to allow random access. They wanted a slow academic pace, we wanted speed and urgency (we hired a Hollywood script writer to provide this.)   They wanted written instructions; we wanted computer movies. They wanted the traditional pedagogical language of "learning objectives," "mastery", etc. (e.g. "in this exercise you will learn"); our goal was to completely eliminate any language that even smacked of education.
  • large mind-shift required
  • We need to invent Digital Native methodologies for all subjects, at all levels, using our students to guide us.
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    Our students have changed radically. Today's students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.
Chuck Baker

How the Flipped Classroom Is Radically Transforming Learning - THE DAILY RIFF - Be Smar... - 117 views

  • students missed our classes and struggled to stay caught up.
  • As we roam around the class, we notice the students developing their own collaborative groups.  Students are helping each other learn instead of relying on the teacher as the sole disseminator of knowledge.
  • One of the greatest benefits of flipping is that overall interaction increases: Teacher to student and student to student.  Since the role of the teacher has changed from presenter of content to learning coach, we spend our time talking to kids
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  • The beauty of these mini-lectures is we are delivering "just in time" instruction when the students are ready for learning.
  • Flipping the classroom has transformed our teaching practice.  We no longer stand in front of our students and talk at them for thirty to sixty minutes at a time.  This radical change has allowed us to take on a different role with our students.
  • We think the key is for students to identify learning as their goal, instead of striving for the completion of assignments.  We have purposely tried to make our classes places where students carry out meaningful activities instead of completing busy work.
  • Our goal is for them to be the best learner possible, and to truly understand the content in our classes.  When our students grasp the concept that we are on their side, they respond by doing their best.
  • We both remember sitting in parent conferences for years and parents would often ask us how their son or daughter behaved in class.
  • You see, the question is a non-issue in our classroom.  Since students are coming with the primary focus on learning, the real question is now:  Is your student learning or not?  If they are not learning, what can we do to help them learn?  This is a much more profound question and when we can discuss this with parents, we can really move students into a place which will help them become better learners.
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    Highlights of a guest post from two Chemistry teachers writing a book to be released in 2011 about delivering lectures at home and working at school.
Jack Shields

Five Tips for Creating PowerPoint Slides that WON'T Bore Your Audience - The Tempered R... - 354 views

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    Good ideas to remember for presentations.
Marc Patton

Welcome To Achieve - 4 views

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    Achieve is proud to be the leading voice for the college- and career-ready agenda, and has helped transform the concept of "college and career readiness for all students" from a radical proposal into a national agenda.
Jennie Snyder

Three Classroom Blogging Tips for Teachers - The Tempered Radical - 102 views

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    Great post by Bill Ferriter on classroom blogging. Practical tips for teachers.
Matt Renwick

Instructional Coaches: Implementing Practices - Radical Learners Radical Learners - 40 views

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  • Simply put: what knowledge workers do is think for a living; if someone else (researchers, administrators, policy makers) does the thinking for teachers, teachers will resist.
Jennie Snyder

Change Depends on More than Shiny iGadgets [SLIDE] - The Tempered Radical - 54 views

  • But let's not mistake purchases for progress when reflecting on our efforts to change teaching and learning spaces.
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    Once again Bill Ferriter provides a thoughtful reminder that changing teaching and learning spaces depends on vision, not gadgets. 
Randy Yerrick

Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers | TED Talk | TED.com - 23 views

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    From rockets to stock markets, many of humanity's most thrilling creations are powered by math. So why do kids lose interest in it? Conrad Wolfram says the part of math we teach - calculation by hand - isn't just tedious, it's mostly irrelevant to real mathematics and the real world. He presents his radical idea: teaching kids math through computer programming.
Ben Hacking

Online university for the masses! - 1 views

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    The outrageous costs of a higher education are driving Internet entrepreneurs to change the delivery model radically
Jon Tanner

UW Flexible Option | Competency-based college degrees & certificates - 22 views

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    A radical change for a major university- a degree program where you get credit for what you already know, and can work at your own pace. They even claim it's personalized.
smilex3md

23 Roles of The 21st Century Educator ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning - 110 views

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    The roles of educators have been radically changed. From the sage on the stage to the facilitator and coordinator, teachers have been at the center of a paradigmatic shift that flickers between two instructional environments: student-centered and teacher centered.
Ann Steckel

Siri's Inventors Are Building a Radical New AI That Does Anything You Ask | Enterprise ... - 13 views

  • Whereas Siri can only perform tasks that Apple engineers explicitly implement, this new program, they say, will be able to teach itself, giving it almost limitless capabilities.
  • But Kittlaus points out that all of these services are strictly limited. Cheyer elaborates: “Google Now has a huge knowledge graph—you can ask questions like ‘Where was Abraham Lincoln born?’ And it can name the city. You can also say, ‘What is the population?’ of a city and it’ll bring up a chart and answer. But you cannot say, ‘What is the population of the city where Abraham Lincoln was born?’” The system may have the data for both these components, but it has no ability to put them together, either to answer a query or to make a smart suggestion. Like Siri, it can’t do anything that coders haven’t explicitly programmed it to do.
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    "Whereas Siri can only perform tasks that Apple engineers explicitly implement, this new program, they say, will be able to teach itself, giving it almost limitless capabilities."
H DeWaard

The Web We Need to Give Students - Bright - Medium - 31 views

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    "Giving students their own digital domain is a radical act. It gives them the ability to work on the Web and with the We…
Sydney Lacey

Annapolis High School: A Work In Progress : NPR - 17 views

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    2nd in an NPR series on School Improvement. Transcript and link to audio. "Long before the Obama administration started talking about turning around failing schools, Annapolis High School in Maryland embarked on a radical transformation. It went to a 12-month school year. Teachers and administrators had to re-apply for their jobs, and those who were rehired vowed to never again let a single student fall through the cracks."
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