LearningConversations

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.

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

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

"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"

The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

A well educated young person is...

A great graphic!

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.

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

"Technological networks have transformed prominent businesses sectors: music, television, financial, manufacturing. Social networks, driven by technological networks, have similarly transformed communication, news, and personal interactions. Education sits at the social/technological nexus of change - primed for dramatic transformative change."

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

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective IEP Teams