LearningConversations

A collection of articles on teacher recruitment, retention, and quality.

A well educated young person is...

A great graphic!

"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."

A great, thoughtful post about blogging, how it's changing and the need to create new ways to describe/define it.

"The problem is not that schools will refuse to adopt the new media/technology. My greater fear is that they will adopt it. "

Great tool to analyze privacy settings on facebook. Simple to use.

If you have a well-developed, well-nurtured learning network, and you have the access and the skills necessary to utilize it, then you "know" more than someone who does not.

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

"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."

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

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

Here's a tool for embedding a tweet into a blog post. Sue Waters provides instructions for use here: http://theedublogger.com/2010/05/06/hot-to-easily-embed-your-favorite-tweets-into-blog-posts/

Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts. Also for School Librarians, Teachers, subjects/levels too!

experienced this in a g.6/7 class; student created an assessment for a science-environmental unit consisting of short answer and multiple choice questions; results get emailed to teacher in a spreadsheet that calculates percentages, identifies (color) missed answers, etc.

"syndication buses represent a space through which individuals within a learning community can share their work through personal publishing platforms that they maintain ownership over. Rather than locking information into centralized systems, institutions should be designing a syndication-oriented framework that empowers its members to add their own syndicated voices to a larger, streaming conversation that can be filtered and visualized through semantic tags and categories. All of which is undergirded by a staunch belief in the fact that openness is no longer the exception, but the rule for learning institutions"

Where do people find the time? Clay Shirky speaks for about 20 minutes on the societal shift from media consumption to consumption + production + sharing. Note Giligan's Island & 'Looking for mouse' in part 2

"On this episode of Spark: Online friendship, personal branding, and geoweb privacy. "

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

Nancy White's presentation regarding what she's learned about successfully facilitating online communities

Bringing iPods into the classroom is a great way to give students access to learning tools. However, there are so many things to keep in mind to make the iPods work smoothly in the classroom.