{"id":44454,"date":"2014-01-22T10:17:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=44454"},"modified":"2014-01-22T10:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T15:17:03","slug":"announcing-educating-modern-learners-richardson-dixon-watters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/01\/22\/announcing-educating-modern-learners-richardson-dixon-watters\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing: Educating Modern Learners [Richardson, Dixon, Watters]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willrichardson.com\/post\/74054989746\/announcing-educating-modern-learners\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Announcing: Educating Modern Learners<\/b><\/a>\u00a0 &#8212; from Will Richardson<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt from yesterday&#8217;s posting:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I\u2019m happy to announce that my friend and colleague Bruce Dixon and I are starting a new membership website, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/modernlearners.com\" target=\"_blank\">Educating Modern Learners<\/a> (EML)<\/strong>. It\u2019s a site and an accompanying newsletter that\u2019s aimed specifically at helping school leaders and policy makers from around the globe be better informed about the huge technological changes that are impacting education, and to help them make better, more pertinent decisions for the students they serve. And I\u2019m equally excited to announce that we\u2019ve hired one of the best education bloggers \/ thinkers we know, Audrey Watters, to be the editorial director \/ lead writer for the site. Our official launch is scheduled for mid-February.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/audreywatters.com\/2014\/01\/21\/educating-modern-learners-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Announcing &#8220;Educating Modern Learners&#8221;<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from Audrey Watters<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">See, we desperately need a new narrative about future of teaching and learning. We need that narrative amongst educators and parents and politicians, sure. But we need that narrative articulately loudly and clearly in the media. We need it told and explained convincingly to education leaders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We need a narrative that isn\u2019t about education reform as privatization. And we need a narrative that doesn\u2019t insist that school as-is is actually \u201cjust fine.\u201d We need a narrative that merges progressive education and progressive politics and progressive tech. That\u2019s the niche that Educating Modern Learners will fill.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>From the EML website:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/modernlearners.com\/our-philosophy\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Our Philosophy<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong>Transformation. Disruption. Opportunity. Challenge\u2026<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Welcome to the Changing World of Modern Learning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">The past few years have seen a renewed interest in education technology \u2014 among educators, tech entrepreneurs, politicians, parents, and kids alike (and, for better or worse, in the popular media too). Some say we\u2019re in the midst of a \u201ctransformation.\u201d Others call it a \u201crevolution.\u201d Whatever you call it, there\u2019s no question technology\u2013particularly the World Wide Web, is fundamentally changing the way we connect with one another, the way we access and share information, the way we build communities and build knowledge, and the way we teach and learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Announcing: Educating Modern Learners\u00a0 &#8212; from Will Richardson Excerpt from yesterday&#8217;s posting: I\u2019m happy to announce that my friend and colleague Bruce Dixon and I are starting a new membership website, Educating Modern Learners (EML). It\u2019s a site and an accompanying newsletter that\u2019s aimed specifically at helping school leaders and policy makers from around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347,32,46,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-reform","category-education-technology","category-k-12-related","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44457,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44454\/revisions\/44457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}