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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

  • 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
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    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

Start your own online School - 0 views

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

SpeEdChange: The School I'd Like - 0 views

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    "If I was designing a school, if I was creating my educational utopia, what would it look like?"
Heidi Gable

Powerful Learning Practice, LLC - 0 views

shared by Heidi Gable on 05 Feb 09 - Cached
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    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
Heidi Gable

YouTube - Hero in the Hallway! - 0 views

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    Empowering students to prevent violence in schools. Created by students (Kyle Barrett: University of Illinois and Bobby Barrett: Cary Grove High School) for ...
Heidi Gable

Dangerously Irrelevant: The Game of School - Wrap-up - 0 views

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    I think Fried does a fabulous job of highlighting how schools as institutions have largely moved away from many of our desired ends for students and their learning. Not always, not for every kid, but mostly…
Heidi Gable

First Day of School? Here's How to Get Students Thinking - Copy / Paste by Peter Pappas - 0 views

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    great idea for first day of the year activities to engage all learners.
Heidi Gable

School Tech: 6 Important Lessons From Maine's Student Laptop Program - 0 views

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    "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."
Brian Kuhn

Free Digital Textbook Initiative - 0 views

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

BBC NEWS | Americas | Online push in California schools - 0 views

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    California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has unveiled a plan to save money by phasing out school textbooks in favour of internet aids.
Heidi Gable

The School Is Flat | The Moss-Free Stone - 0 views

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    "Teaching is a noble call that suffers when we practice in isolation and flourishes when we work together, and at no time in history have we had the tools we do today that allow us to work together for the good of our children. When we take the time to learn and embrace these tools, we grow as professionals-I can testify to that wholeheartedly."
Heidi Gable

mstechnology » WiFi - 0 views

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    info and guidelines for public wifi access at a school
Heidi Gable

Blogging Parent Letter and Consent Form | Beyond School - 0 views

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    Sample letter for parent explanation and consent for classroom blogging
Heidi Gable

YouTube - What I Want For My Children - 0 views

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    A video about how parents can help create great schools.
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