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Brian Kuhn

If We Didn't Have the Schools We Have Today, Would We Create the Schools We Have Today - 0 views

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21stcentury ISDEPT architecture article building change design education journal leadership learning research schools technology

shared by Brian Kuhn on 20 May 09 - Cached
  • But most schools and classrooms will no longer be the central learning hubs they are today.   Today’s model of schooling is to bring the learner to the knowledge—tomorrow we will bring the knowledge to the learners.   We must recognize that schools and classrooms are becoming nodes in networked learning communities.   We must begin to think about how to organize learning in networked communities and not limit learning within the boundaries of classrooms and school buildings—which would be to limit our thinking to what has been possible in the past in a single school or node.
  • The new and more powerful opportunity available to educators today is to use these technologies to help individuals collaboratively construct networked learning communities that will accelerate and augment the community’s learning, as well as each individual’s learning.
  • We need to get rid of the circle and enable them to be learners in an open learning environment (see Figure 5). One of the large “L’s” in the diagram is the expert learner
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  • Did the open space concept fail, or did we fail to prepare teachers who could teach in an open space model? We changed the physical space in those buildings, but because we continued to prepare most teachers as if the only way to teach is using the solo, stand alone, self-contained, isolated classroom model—the open space concept could not work
  • we have to prepare teachers very differently than we have in the past
  • Any organization that adopts a new technology without significant organizational change is doomed to failure. You have to change the organization. You cannot just add the technology
  • Brian Kuhn on 20 May 09
     
    great article about how learning and school has or has not changed and what needs to be transformed to prepare for today and the future to meet the needs of students and teachers
Heidi Gable

Leaders Can Be Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely | TerryStarbucker.com - 0 views

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    In his words, "being completely open and honest with no sense of pretense or cover" is the best approach to building loyalty, whether it's with teammates, peers, customers, or clients. Lencioni correctly identifies the biggest barriers to really getting Touchy-Feely: fear and insecurity."
Heidi Gable

33 Principles of Educational Design - 0 views

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shared by Heidi Gable on 06 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 06 Apr 09
     
    The principles are divided into educational facility planning and design process principles, principles for site and building organization, principles for primary educational space, principles for shared school and community facilities, community spaces, principles related to the character of all spaces, and principles related to site design and outdoor learning spaces.
Dave Truss

NetSavvy: Building Information ... - Google Book Search - 0 views

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  • Dave Truss on 28 Jan 09
     
    This easy-to-follow guide can help students and teachers ' even the most technology-resistant ' learn to solve problems from sources like Internet sites, news groups, chat rooms, e-mail, and other Internet resources. Topics include: Creating your own lesson plans using sample lesson planners Applying frameworks for grade-level objectives and skills Dealing with information-technology overload Solving any information challenge with six critical steps Helping students harness the web with simple tips An important resource for today's classroom, Net Savvy can help educators become leaders rather than followers in the new high-tech, high-speed, digital era.
Heidi Gable

Weblogg-ed » Time for Action: The Big Questions - 0 views

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shared by Heidi Gable on 02 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Heidi Gable on 02 Mar 10
     
    Will Richardson has started a wiki to explore the "10 big questions" in education, in order to collaboratively build a resource for Districts to "kickstart" their own conversations.
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