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Living and learning with new media: summary of findings from the digital youth project

Social Media (Trends and implications for learning) Seminar Series by George Siemens and David Cormier

"Supercool School is an online school platform that empowers everyone to create customized education environments for live online learning."

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.

Start with the idea and apply the tool. If you start with the tool first…you have a lesser chance of effecting learning. This happens to me quite often. A teacher will come to me and say "I want to blog." OK, that's great, but why? What are you thinking? Why do you want to blog? What do you know about a blog?

Generally speaking, do we (as a nation, as a profession) put forth every effort to stretch the students who are already "there"? Do we take for granted the fact that some students, without much assistance from us, will be (supposedly) "just fine" academically on their own? Are they really "just fine" or "where they need to be" if we haven't truly challenged them to stretch and grow academically and intellectually? Do they not deserve to be s t r e t c h e d also? Do they not deserve to learn and grow academically as much as possible, too? Are they really reaching their potential if we haven't even tried to find how far their potential reaches?

Forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding

A one-year, ongoing, job-embedded professional development opportunity built around emerging social Web technologies that connects: 20 schools from around the state (or world) 5 educators (administrators/teachers) from each school 10-21st Century Fellows (Champions) selected from participating districts

"It's been about 10 years since Maine implemented its initiative, and while at least 33 states had experimented with one-to-one computing projects by 2007 , none have reached the scope of Maine's project. As jobs and life increasingly involve computers, it's clear that in order to remain relevant to students, schools will need to adopt more technology. Here are six lessons about doing so successfully, taken from Maine's initiative."

California's free digital text book resource network. All high school students have access in 2009.