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Ed Webb

Alan Kay, Systems, and Textbooks « Theatrical Smoke - 2 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 26 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • I discuss his key idea: that systemic thinking is a liberal art, and I explain a corollary idea, that textbooks suck
  • if you don’t have a category for an idea, it’s very difficult to receive that idea
  • the story of the last few hundred years is that we’ve quickly developed important ideas, which society needs to have to improve and perhaps even to continue to exist, and for which there are no pre-existing, genetically created categories. So there’s an idea-receiving capacity gap.
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  • Education’s job should be, says Kay, to bridge this gap. To help, that is, people form these necessary new idea-receiving categories–teaching them the capacity for ideas–early on in their lives, so that as they grow they are ready to embrace the things we need them to know. Let me say that in a better way: so that as they grow they are ready to know in the ways we need them to know.
  • cultivate the ability to conceive of, work with, create, understand, manipulate, tinker with, disrupt, and, generally, appreciate the beauty of systems
  • Seeing systems is an epistemology, a way of knowing, a mindset
  • a game, or a simulation, thought of as a thing we might create (rather than a thing we only act within), is a visceral example of systems thinking
  • It’s the Flatland story–that we need to train our 2D minds to see in a kind of 3D–and Kay’s genius is that he recognizes we have to bake this ability into the species, through education, as close to birth as possible.
  • Systems thinking is to be conceived of as a platform skill or an increased capacity on top of which we will be able to construct new sorts of ideas and ways of knowing, of more complex natures still. The step beyond seeing a single system is of course the ability to see interacting systems – a kind of meta-systemic thinking – and this is what I think Kay is really interested in, because it’s what he does. At one point he showed a slide of multiple systems–the human body, the environment, the internet, and he said in a kind of aside, “they’re all one system . . .”
  • The point is to be able to see connections between the silos. Says Kay, the liberal arts have done a bad job at “adding in epistemology” among the “smokestacks” (i.e. disciplines)
  • What happens when you’re stuck in a system? You don’t understand the world and yourself and others as existing in constant development, as being in process; you think you are a fixed essence or part within a system (instead of a system influencing systems) and you inadvertently trap yourself in a kind of tautological loop where you can only think about things you’re thinking about and do the things you do and you thus limit yourself to a kind of non-nutritive regurgitation of factoids, or the robotic meaningless actions of an automaton, or what Kay calls living in a pop culture
  • A downside of being epistemologically limited to thinking within a system is that you overemphasize the importance of the content and facts as that system orders them
Vicki Davis

American Democracy in Action - Student Wiki Textbook - 2 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 03 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 03 Jan 12
     
    Students are writing their own textbooks. This one by The Advanced Placement United States GovernmentElectronic Textbook created by theSt. Gregory College Preparatory School'sSenior AP Government Class 2010 With such things that can be handed down to other students, so many questions come to mind including accuracy but also whether such a tool has value in lieu of traditional textbooks. 
Ben Rimes

CJO - Abstract - Inaccurate, Exceptional, One-Sided or Irrelevant? The Debate about the Alleged Decline of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Western Societies - 0 views

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shared by Ben Rimes on 26 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Ben Rimes on 26 Jul 10
     
    Study reflecting upon the perceived lack of civic engagement in Western Society.
Kelly Faulkner

Watching "Not In Our Town" Together: A Classroom Guide | Not in Our Town - 10 views

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shared by Kelly Faulkner on 20 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Kelly Faulkner on 20 Sep 10
     
    resource for anti-bullying unit
Dan Sherman

MATH PRACTICE AND LEARNING PROGRAM - FREE FOR TEACHERS - 27 views

www.tenmarks.com/teachers

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shared by Dan Sherman on 16 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Dan Sherman on 16 Nov 10
     
    TenMarks is the best math practice and learning program for grades 3-High School and as of today, it's FREE for teachers to use - in class or for their students to use at home. The TenMarks approach gives students a variety of problems on each topic, and ability to use hints if they need a little nudge, and immediate video lessons for them to refresh and learn the topic - on the spot. The end result - students refresh what they know and learn what they don't. Teachers choose their own curriculum (mapped to state standards), assign work to students, have it automatically graded immediately, review individual and class performance, and most importantly, take immediate action. TenMarks is super effective and real easy to use - it was designed with the help of math teachers across the country. What's more - it's FREE for the entire class!
Dave Crusoe

Show Obama your support for the cause of Education! - 0 views

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shared by Dave Crusoe on 29 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Dave Crusoe on 29 Dec 08
     
    Please help show Obama YOUR SUPPORT for education by voting for this important cause! The top causes will be presented to the new Obama administration at the Inauguration in January.
Vicki Davis

Deleting your digital past -- for good - 0 views

www.computerworld.com/...article.do

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shared by Vicki Davis on 18 Nov 08 - No Cached
  • But what if you don't just want something massaged, manipulated or suppressed? What if you want it gone? Is it possible for an ordinary person to get some damaging tidbit entirely erased from the Web?
  • The Communications Decency Act of 1996 gives almost total immunity to Web sites
  • another surprise dead end is the place where many people launch their erasure efforts: Google.
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  • "Removing content from Google or another search engine would still leave the original content that exists on the Web," says a Google spokesman.
  • the webmaster of the page or the Internet hosting companies or ISPs hosting the content to find out their content removal policies."
  • Fred Delventhal on 18 Nov 08
     
    Can you erase your tracks online? We tried to get a few bad mentions off the Net forever. Here's how we did.
  • Vicki Davis on 12 Dec 08
     
    How to get rid of information for good - not as easy as you think. the problem is that nasty little digital footprints with your full name - even if NOT left by you can influence your life FOREVER. Good information to share. Another reason, digital citizeenship IS an issue.
Marie Coppolaro

Third World Challenge Exam Home Page: IndianMathOnline.com - 0 views

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  • Marie Coppolaro on 05 Oct 08
     
    Third World Challenge: Indian Education system, exams for all 10th grade Indian students.
  • Marie Coppolaro on 05 Oct 08
     
    Indian exams for 10th grade students
Shaun Fletcher

Global Action Week 2007 | Canadian Global Campaign for Education - 0 views

www.campaignforeducationcanada.org/...en

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shared by Shaun Fletcher on 13 Apr 08 - Cached
  • Shaun Fletcher on 13 Apr 08
     
    Just signed up for resource kit. Guiness World Record for largest lesson on April 23,2008
Brian C. Smith

Is Google Making Us Stupid? - 0 views

www.theatlantic.com/...google

shared by Brian C. Smith on 11 Jun 08 - Cached
  • What the Internet is doing to our brains
  • A new e-mail message, for instance, may announce its arrival as we’re glancing over the latest headlines at a newspaper’s site. The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      Some might call this multitasking... but "good" multitasking needs to be purposeful. Those who can filter those attention scattering and diffusing interuptions just may be getting smarter.
  • Most of the proprietors of the commercial Internet have a financial stake in collecting the crumbs of data we leave behind as we flit from link to link—the more crumbs, the better. The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      All the more reason to educate students on social media literacy with a purpose.
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  • He couldn’t foresee the many ways that writing and reading would serve to spread information, spur fresh ideas, and expand human knowledge (if not wisdom).
  • And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.”
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      Nothing's different here. In fact, I might argue that it is even more important that we have "proper instruction".
  • They would be “filled with the conceit of wisdom instead of real wisdom.”
  • emotionlessness that characterizes the human figures in the film, who go about their business with an almost robotic efficiency. Their thoughts and actions feel scripted, as if they’re following the steps of an algorithm.
    • Brian C. Smith
      Brian C. Smith on 17 Jun 08
       
      Is this where education/teaching is headed if it does not embrace technology for the freedom it offers learners?
Angela Maiers

Education Week: Learning Essentials - 0 views

www.edweek.org/...38coreknowledge.h27.html

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shared by Angela Maiers on 01 Jun 08 - Cached
  • Angela Maiers on 01 Jun 08
     
    Learning Essentials -Big win for Core knowledge vs. isolated skills
Tom Hemingway

Raise Your Hands (Techlearning blog) - 0 views

www.techlearning.com/...raise_your_hands_1.php

shared by Tom Hemingway on 31 Mar 08 - Cached
  • Thus, this article isn't another push for organizations to embrace a collaborative learning culture. It is a push for teachers to stop waiting for the organization and become a collaborative professional learner by changing fundamental behaviors inhibiting this and embracing action items that will allow it to happen.
    • Tom Hemingway
      Tom Hemingway on 31 Mar 08
       
      This is like the "skunkworks" idea in R&D divisions of big companies. Employees work together on their own time, sometimes secretly, to develop product ideas. if the manager finds out, he might turn a blind eye as long as it doesn't interfere with regular work. Some more enlightened companies build in time for this kind of entrepreneurial behavior.
  • The number one skill that teachers will need is to be team-based, collegial, sharing their knowledge and wisdom.
Clif Mims

EdTech Action Network - 0 views

www.edtechactionnetwork.org/index.html

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shared by Clif Mims on 12 Jul 08 - Cached
  • Clif Mims on 12 Jul 08
     
    "ETAN provides a forum for educators and others to engage in the political process and project a unified voice in support of a common cause - improving teaching and learning through the systemic use of technology. ETAN's mission is to influence public policy-makers at the federal, state and local levels and to increase public investment in the competitiveness of America's classrooms and students."
Jeff Johnson

An Inconvenient Truth > Carbon Calculator - 0 views

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shared by Jeff Johnson on 23 May 08 - Cached
  • We all contribute to global warming every day. The carbon dioxide you produce by driving your car and leaving the lights on adds up quickly. You may be surprised by how much Co2 you are emitting each year. Calculate your personal impact and learn how you can take action to reduce or even eliminate your emissions of carbon dioxide.
Vicki Davis

Safe Kids Chat Rooms - Fun Games for Girls and Boys - Action Adventure Games for Kids - KidsCom.com - 0 views

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shared by Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08
     
    Another safe world for kids - has a lot of awards.
  • Vicki Davis on 23 Aug 08
     
    Another "safe" world -- has anyone tested this one? It has a lot of seals and awards.
cory plough

Media That Matters Film Festival: Short Films that Inspire Action - 0 views

www.mediathatmattersfest.org

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shared by cory plough on 19 May 08 - Cached
  • cory plough on 19 May 08
     
    Media that matters are short films about important social issues.
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