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Learning2025

On 12/23/2010, in change, education, future, innovation, K-12 related, by Daniel Christian

Also see:

Learning2025 — from The Future of Education is Here by Jillian Darwish
Grantmakers for Education, a network of approximately 260 education funders, is working to build a common definition of innovation and to identify investments that can transform our education systems. As part of this initiative, KnowledgeWorks and Collective Invention collaborated with GFE to design and document programs that enable grantmakers to step back from their typical funding procedures and consider what innovations can leverage the most change for learners.

Tagged with: change • education • future • grants • innovation • K-12

Michael Horn: Transforming Thomas Jefferson’s successful education system

On 12/23/2010, in change, disruption, education, education reform, future, United States, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: change • disruption • education • education reform • future • United States

Michelle Rhee on NPR

On 12/22/2010, in education, education reform, K-12 related, leadership, strategy, student-related, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: education • education reform • K-12 • leadership • strategy • student-related

SpeechTechie.com

On 12/22/2010, in blogs / blogging / vlogging, education, education technology, K-12 related, teachers, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

SpeechTechie.com

Per Kara Sevensma from the Education Department at Calvin College:

I believe I would recommend this blog for practitioners, but with a caution. The opinions shared here are an excellent entry point for thinking about technology through the “lens.” I think serious questions must be raised though about how to identify, assess, implement, and evaluate whether these technologies meet students’ needs. The conversations about how to then examine the highlighted resources in light of important contextual factors at their placement are limited. What I love about the blog though is that it opens up the first door (in my opinion) which is becoming aware of what resources are “out there.” As you know, this can be one of many challenging hurdles teachers face when thinking about implementing technology.

Tagged with: blogging • education • educational technology • K-12 • languages • teachers

Tagged with: blogging • education • K-12

Learning through gaming

On 12/20/2010, in education, educational games / serious games, future, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: education • educational gaming • future

Education-related quotes from “Poverty: ending the cycle”

On 12/20/2010, in education, education reform, passions, psychology, sociology, by Daniel Christian

Education-related quotes from:
Poverty: ending the cycle
A 36-year study by Concordia University looks at the cycle of poverty through three generations of Montrealers

The third generation, growing up right now in this technological society, has no bright future without high school, Serbin says.

“Lack of education causes huge barriers, and these kids have a lot farther to go than others,” she says, “because they come from backgrounds with little education and stimulation.”

So is it any wonder that the dropout rate isn’t budging? Serbin asks.

“(Premier Jean) Charest talks about parents providing support, which is great. But how do you enable parents to do that?”

We need to teach parents the skills and offer them programs and support, so they in turn can support their children academically, she says. If poverty places parents in acute stress, how is it possible for them to help their children without outside support?

From DSC:
To me, this begins to get at the heart of the matter of education reform — helping develop stable, solid families with parents that actively support the education of their children.

It’s tough — if one was never taught the importance of education, how does one acquire that perspective? We need to help parents build a respect for education. But I realize that when a person is out there just trying to get by at all, it’s hard to worry about education. That’s why next year, I hope to begin offering a program on developing digital literacy to those children who come out of a background of significant need. I want to help them identify, develop and use their passions.

Tagged with: education • education reform • passions • psychology • sociology

No more Project ROME

On 12/01/2010, in Adobe, education, multimedia, by Daniel Christian

Five Students, Five Paths to a Future That Works

On 11/12/2010, in education, future, K-12 related, passions, student-related, by Daniel Christian

Five Students, Five Paths to a Future That Works — from Edutopia.org by Kathy Baron

Tagged with: education • future • K-12 • passions • student-related

2010 Global Education Conference — Nov 15-19

On 11/12/2010, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, education, education technology, global / globalization, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • education • educational technology • global • Global learning • Wimba

Questions I’m no longer asking

On 11/02/2010, in education, education technology, innovation, learning, learning theories, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Questions I’m no longer asking — from elearnspace by George Siemens

Excerpt:

I’m firmly convinced of the following:
1. Learners should be in control of their own learning. Autonomy is key. Educators can initiate, curate, and guide. But meaningful learning requires learner-driven activity
2. Learners need to experience confusion and chaos in the learning process. Clarifying this chaos is the heart of learning.
3. Openness of content and interaction increases the prospect of the random connections that drive innovation
4. Learning requires time, depth of focus, critical thinking, and reflection. Ingesting new information requires time for digestion. Too many people digitally gorge without digestion time.
5. Learning is network formation. Knowledge is distributed.
6. Creation is vital. Learners have to create artifacts to share with others and to aid in re-centering exploration beyond the artifacts the educator has provided.
7. Making sense of complexity requires social and technological systems. We do the former better than the latter.

Tagged with: education • educational technology • innovation • learning • learning theories • open • teaching & learning

November Learning presents BLC 2010 — M. Wesch Keynote

On 10/21/2010, in creativity, education, engagement / engaging students, love of learning, new media literacies, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: anthropology • creativity • education • engagement • love of learning • new media literacies

Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms with RSA Animate

On 10/14/2010, in change, creativity, education, education reform, K-12 related, organizational change, presentations, social learning / networks, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: change • creativity • education • education reform • K-12 • organizational change • presentations • social learning

Web video highlights original and innovative work of a faculty member

On 10/11/2010, in adjunct faculty, digital video, education, education reform, faculty, pedagogy, psychology, publishing, research, sociology, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
First of all, I got this item from:

One Facet of the Future of Educational Publishing — by Jeff Frank

I really enjoyed watching the Strage Prize video, and it led me to think more about the relationship between online video and the publication of educational research. In my role as Managing Editor of the Teachers College Record, I read a very large number of qualitative and ethnographic studies. While the best of these papers give the reader a strong sense of the subjects and the study location (and the author/researcher), after watching the 2010 Strage Prize video, I was fascinating by how much this video added to my understanding and appreciation of Lalitha’s paper.
…

I think having the two together–the written work and the video/podcast–adds something of unique value. I hope more educational researchers and publishers experiment with these kinds of paired works, because I think they offer readers a wonderful educative experience.

Side note from DSC:
Think interactive, multimedia on an iPad sort of device.

Which led me to:

Strage Prize 2010 — by Gary Natriello | October 8, 2010

This video features the work of Lalitha Vasudevan and her paper, “Performing New Geographies of Literacy Teaching and Learning.” The paper focuses on the literacies and digitally mediated lives of youth, and was published in the July 2009 issue of English Education.

The video’s production and publication is supported by the Strage Junior Faculty Prize. The Prize was established in 2009 by Teachers College alumna Alberta Strage and her husband Henry to recognize junior faculty achievement. Alberta also serves on both the President’s Advisory Council and the International Advisory Council for Teachers College. We appreciate both their generosity to Teachers College and support for the work of our junior faculty.

The Prize supports the production of a web video to highlight original and innovative work of a junior faculty member at Teachers College. All currently untenured members of the faculty in tenure-line appointments are eligible to compete for the prize by submitting an article, book chapter, paper, or other original product appearing during the previous year.

Congratulations Professor Vasudevan!

Tagged with: adjunct faculty • anthropology • digital video • education • education reform • faculty • literacy • psychology • publishing • sociology • teaching & learning

Kiva begins offering education microloans

On 09/30/2010, in budgets, cost of getting a degree, education, student-related, by Daniel Christian

Kiva begins offering education microloans — from wired.co.uk by Duncan Geere

Crowdsourced microlending service Kiva has begun offering educational loans to students in three countries around the world, with the objective of expanding its successes with small businesses into encouraging the spread of learning.

Tagged with: budgetary • cost of getting an education • costs • education • student-related

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