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I will be deleting the osba13ac-tagged tweets that are irrelevant to my talk or thoughts. - dfw 
15 Nov 2013 - 13:54:04 I'm intrigued by the concept of embedded staff development. Is it organized with specific topics, or to teachers simply pursue their own professional development. A teacher who see himself as a master learner is finding (and inventing) ways to engage in embedded professional development all the time. - dfw
I'm at the airport now, waiting for my flight to Dulles. Might get through this before we take off. - dfw
I'll read that later. What fascinates me is that when you're reading online, you navigating a three-dimensional information environment where you read across and down, but also deeper into the content via hyperlinks. - dfw
That's a very good point. But is that the difference between paper and LCD, or the difference between an article and a story. If I don't get to the last paragraph of a novel, it's not because of what I'm looking at. It's because I'm not identifying with the story. - dfw
Now that looks interesting. Wonder if I can find a way to watch it on the plane. - dfw
Good learning is alway interactive. The fact is that you, as an audience, have much more knowledge than I do. I've already learned a lot from reading your backchannel. - dfw
:-) - dfw
Hey! We're knitting ideas! ;-) - dfw
It's my preference too, unless the speaker is walking around a lot and weighs more than 200 pounds ;-) - dfw
Did you really say that? When I'm taking the cab home from the Raleigh airport, my wife will be in Charlotte watching them play the Heat. Dang! - dfw
As I may have mentioned, I never do this where I don't learn something from you. - dfw
This is difficult for many, especially those older than 35. I can type and listen at the same time, but I can't read and listen simultaneously. - dfw
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Nothing can be defined in 140 characters, only referenced. It's a problem, admittedly. - dfw
Yes, but what's intriguing about that, to me, is that it is a language that they invented - in collaboration. That impresses me. - dfw
It wasn't important... - dfw
Good point. But I don't agree. Our kids have not really replaced anything with this. It's just that they're together when their together, and also together when they're not. What's lost, I fear, is those times when we're alone with our own thoughts. We're always connected and never really alone. I heard someone say, once, that it's during those times alone with our own thoughts, that we're becoming ourselves. - dfw
;-) - dfw
Good way to put it. The relationships that our kids enjoy with each other are far deeper and richer than was even possible when I was growing up. - dfw
:-( - dfw
This is absolutely true, and not just for young children. But the solution is much more complicated than simply setting a schedule. We need something that is as compelling as the virtual. I'm starting to pay a lot of attention to PE teachers and what they're doing. - dfw
Well put! - dfw
Knitter Chat is a personal experiment that I am constantly hacking. But most teachers who do this sort of thing use a tool called Today's Meet, http://todaysmeet.com - dfw
NO! I think we will always need school and I hope that we always have them. But, because of today's prevailing information landscape (networked, digital & abundant), we can make brick and mortar walls transparent. - dfw
Worth it! Every other institution is paying the cost. We live in a networked, digital and information-abundant world, and can't predict the future we're preparing our children for. Should we be satisfied by continuing to teach them with 15th century technology? You find a way to pay for it, and keep paying. Some of the most successful 1:1 schools I've seen have also been some of the poorest. - dfw
YES! ..by and large, they get as much as we did when I was growing up. I do believe they miss playing all over the neighborhood until dark. I fear they don't get enough of that. - dfw
And life. Don't forget life. All this talk about college and career makes education seem like its job is to feed the corporate machine. Truth is that there is a lot of political influence that is streering education in exactly that direction. My opinion. - dfw
YES! YES! YES! They need to learn to smell the roses. They need to learn to make, with their hands, holding tools, not just with a touch screen. They don't know what it is to straighten a nail. It was a staple of my childhood, making stuff. - dfw
The best teachers are also the best learners. - dfw
15 Nov 2013 - 18:08:57
That's actually an excellent question. The term was first coined in William Gibson's Neuromancer, a classic cyberpunk science fiction novel. A lot of what I'm reading points to the idea that we could soon, technically, plug computing capabilities directly into our brains. It's a disgusting idea, right now. But there's a lot that's happening today, that we would not have liked the idea of fifty years ago. Imagine plugging a flash drive looking device into your head, behind your ear, and suddenly being able to speak and understand Mandarin. - dfw
That can shock them on demand ;-) - dfw
It has to be what we expect of them. If we ask them questions that Google can answer, then Google answers are what we'll get. But if we ask them questions that requires them to cook those Googled answers in their heads to come up with something new, then they'll go deep, especially if they'll be recognized for their thinking. - dfw
That's truer than you think. - dfw
It's one of my favorite speaking moments. It's a surprise, and surprise is an amazing learning tool. - dfw
Yes, whereas school-as-usual is designed to make them think alike. Today, it's not what you know that's the same as everyone else that brings value to your endeavors. It's what you know that's different. - dfw
More of them have it at home than we usually imagine. But this country is still shamefully behind in getting high speed Internet to the homes of its citizens - and that is a national problem. Many countries have gotten access to every home, because they believed that it was in their self interest, as a democratic society. In Finland, high-speed Internet is a legal right for all citizens. - dfw
It's the uncertainty. My generation grew up with certainty. We believed that we understood the world and that it would be all that was promised to us. Many still resent that it's changed. The trade of is clear, however. What we get along with uncertainty is opportunity. We have to make the opportunity so exciting that we forget about what we've lost. - dfw
YES! YES! YES! They must be in the habit of always asking questions about the answers that they find. Same goes for us. - dfw
Yes! Most definitely! But what I've learned from brain research, good teachers seemed to already know. - dfw
That's what's so brilliant about using Wikipedia in the classroom. "Go learn what Wikipedia says about that. Then prove that what's there is true. - dfw
I suspect that you're paying somewhat less attention. However, I hope that you are actually getting more from it by interacting about it. Plus, I suspect that those who were not chatting will get even more by reading this. Often I'll have youngsters in the audience chat while the adults pay attention. Then I have them read the youngster's backchanneling. - dfw
As I said above, this is a nation problem. We've decided that learning to read is a universal need. Having access to information to read is just as important. - dfw
Nice! I may use that... - dfw
I like your reasoning. But if there is a problem with your school district that provents students and teacher from having access to contemporary information and communication technologies, then fix the problem. - dfw
Makes me feel at home! ;-) - dfw
Again, the tool that seems most often used for this is Today's Meet - http://todaysmeet.com - dfw
Don't worry about the tools. If you realize that information can be worked deeper than before, because it is digital, then you're becoming more literate. You can go online and learn about the tools. - dfw
It's more practical. Wordle makes pretty pictures, than that has its place. Lot at the top of this page. But if you want to use to the really analyze the information, then there are other tools for that. - dfw
The long tail is to the right. The left is the head. - dfw
You're a real cartographer. Cool! Should have been in my morning session. - dfw
Give them questionable information instead of the textbook, and condition them to question. Give them access to images and video and ask them to change it to tell a different story. Rather than asking them to write a report that only you will read, ask them to make a web page, video, music video, etc. that you will publish to the community. It all results in comprehension and critical thinking. - dfw
Expose what's true, employ information, express ideas compellingly and do it all within an ethical context. - dfw
That's up to you. Some schools provide it and in others the ask students to bring it. I see advantages both ways. - dfw
..and it's not tech literacy. It's just plain literacy. Because information today is networked, digital and abundant. - dfw
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David
I look forward to reading your conversation.
15 Nov 2013 - 14:14:03
gooey
Thanks you are doing a fine job
15 Nov 2013 - 17:58:58
diane
Go bobcats
15 Nov 2013 - 17:59:09
Miles
So many ways to use this! Very exciting!
15 Nov 2013 - 17:59:11
andrew bryan
Wish I could use voice recognition but don't want to interrupt
15 Nov 2013 - 17:59:41
Reba Stoller
@Jason The new language of students is less than that when texting and tweeting.
15 Nov 2013 - 18:01:47
robert s
This is working but I missed the last thing he said.
15 Nov 2013 - 18:02:19
vanessa
I My kids are going to think I am so cool!
15 Nov 2013 - 18:03:53
Cec
And our children will always be tied to us because of our cell phone 'family plans'
15 Nov 2013 - 18:05:05
Katherine
How to use light...
15 Nov 2013 - 18:06:28
geoff
paperless classrooms without walls!
15 Nov 2013 - 18:06:48
Jeff Clark
help them learn to think and adapt
15 Nov 2013 - 18:12:22
