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Principaldd @pking ... If bought the 8 pack ... You were using algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Keri I'm wondering if you can post the links for the music site and others? 27 Aug 2013 - 14:05:29 -><span style="color: #900;">They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Here here!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 14:19:33 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>David Main site is http://landmark-project.com 27 Aug 2013 - 14:31:30 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha = 20 slides for 20 seconds each with limited text. Google it 27 Aug 2013 - 14:42:02 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha -> 20 images not 20 slides of text 27 Aug 2013 - 14:51:09 Greg L need a mike on people to hear their ideas 27 Aug 2013 - 14:55:51 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers us key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:24 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers is key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:42 -><span style="color: #900;">Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Deleted lines 375-381:
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<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Keri I'm wondering if you can post the links for the music site and others? 27 Aug 2013 - 14:05:29 -><span style="color: #900;">They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Here here!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 14:19:33 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>David Main site is http://landmark-project.com 27 Aug 2013 - 14:31:30 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha = 20 slides for 20 seconds each with limited text. Google it 27 Aug 2013 - 14:42:02 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha -> 20 images not 20 slides of text 27 Aug 2013 - 14:51:09 Greg L need a mike on people to hear their ideas 27 Aug 2013 - 14:55:51 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers us key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:24 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers is key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:42 -><span style="color: #900;">Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Added lines 376-418:
-><span style="color: #900;"> </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd @pking ... If bought the 8 pack ... You were using algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Keri I'm wondering if you can post the links for the music site and others? 27 Aug 2013 - 14:05:29 -><span style="color: #900;">They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Here here!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 14:19:33 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>David Main site is http://landmark-project.com 27 Aug 2013 - 14:31:30 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha = 20 slides for 20 seconds each with limited text. Google it 27 Aug 2013 - 14:42:02 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha -> 20 images not 20 slides of text 27 Aug 2013 - 14:51:09 Greg L need a mike on people to hear their ideas 27 Aug 2013 - 14:55:51 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers us key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:24 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers is key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:42 -><span style="color: #900;">Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Added lines 372-375:
Principaldd where's the library of links on the main site? 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:07 Deleted lines 371-383:
Principaldd where's the library of links on the main site? 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:07 -><span style="color: #900;"> </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right' <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd @pking ... If bought the 8 pack ... You were using algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Keri I'm wondering if you can post the links for the music site and others? 27 Aug 2013 - 14:05:29 Deleted lines 384-403:
-><span style="color: #900;">They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Here here!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 14:19:33 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>David Main site is http://landmark-project.com 27 Aug 2013 - 14:31:30 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha = 20 slides for 20 seconds each with limited text. Google it 27 Aug 2013 - 14:42:02 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha -> 20 images not 20 slides of text 27 Aug 2013 - 14:51:09 Added lines 376-404:
-><span style="color: #900;"> </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right' <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd @pking ... If bought the 8 pack ... You were using algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Keri I'm wondering if you can post the links for the music site and others? 27 Aug 2013 - 14:05:29 -><span style="color: #900;">They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Here here!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 14:19:33 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>David Main site is http://landmark-project.com 27 Aug 2013 - 14:31:30 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha = 20 slides for 20 seconds each with limited text. Google it 27 Aug 2013 - 14:42:02 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha -> 20 images not 20 slides of text 27 Aug 2013 - 14:51:09 Added lines 354-375:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's what math does. It helps numbers to tell their story. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV He's an expert at making technologies interact with each other 27 Aug 2013 - 13:56:37 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>pkinghorn Another day has passed and I still haven't used algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:57:19 -><span style="color: #900;">I didn't tell you how, at the end of my first afternoon of of teaching myself programming (the computers our school got were without software) I got on my knees and thanked every algebra teacher I'd ever had. Algebra is the language for making numbers behave the way you need them to, to make the computer perform the way you need it to. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Download times are directly correlated to teenager bio rhythms ... 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:00 -><span style="color: #900;">:-) </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Principaldd where's the library of links on the main site? 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:07 Added lines 350-353:
Karen 'Numbers can tell a sorry ... ' 27 Aug 2013 - 13:56:20 Added lines 256-349:
<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon I agree. Richer families have more technology. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:46:36 -><span style="color: #900;">We've decided that all citizens should learn to write, not use the wealthy ones. If more and more of the information is networked and digital and exclusively networked and digital, then what's the point of being able to read, if you can't access the text. For the same reason that all children should learn to ready, all children and citizens should have access to the information. It's a national problem. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tracy So we are about asking the right questions. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:46:59 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Are we responsive or reactive? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:47:27 -><span style="color: #900;">What a good question. In the context of what I'm talking about, I would say that the distinction is that for today's children a learning experience that responds to their learning is better than one where they are waiting for someone on the outside (teacher) is reacting. Of course that doesn't mean that we should never react to them. But we need to understand and work toward facilitating experiences that are responsive. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Facts are free ... Putting info into knowledge is where we add value 27 Aug 2013 - 12:48:20 -><span style="color: #900;">Yep! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Learning to ask the question is critical 27 Aug 2013 - 12:48:40 -><span style="color: #900;">Yep! Yet we teaching them to answer questions, not ask them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill We need to teach our kids how to learn 27 Aug 2013 - 12:48:58 -><span style="color: #900;">We need to help them learn to learn. It's a personal endeavor. We all have our own techniques and tricks. In a time of rapid change its not what we bring that the same as everyone else that brings value. It's what we bring that different, how we think solve problems that's different. Another reason why high-stakes standardized testing is so harmful. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce70e19b32fa51945c1f0a38ffeb902' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kim Back channel our classes & groups 27 Aug 2013 - 12:49:20 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon I just read something the other day that said loneliness has increased since social networking. We still need to have real conversation. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:50:32 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes. I think it's a human need, to have the electricity of eye contact. But I wonder, how were they measuring loneliness. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Philosophy. Bring it back. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:53:44 -><span style="color: #900;">You know what I'd bring back? Rhetoric, the art of making logical argument. Sometimes the only thing we have to determine if information is ''true'' is logic.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Good students are not necessarily good learners 27 Aug 2013 - 12:58:59 -><span style="color: #900;">They're good at being taught. I think that one reason I'm a "good learner," is that I have some sever hearing problems and also a particular flavor if A.D.D. that causes met to think very randomly. Get nothing out of class. So I'd have to take the textbook home and figure it out. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tracy Hurray for the practical arts!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 13:04:24 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kere We build and break stuff everyday in kindergarten 27 Aug 2013 - 13:04:28 -><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah for building and breaking. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV Libraries should have "maker-spaces" 27 Aug 2013 - 13:04:45 -><span style="color: #900;">There is a philosophy of education called Reggio Emilia, that originated in Italy right after World War II. Classes are situated like pods around a common space that is like a studio or workshop. Children are encouraged to spend time tinkering in there.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Mick Reminds me of PDP. Every question was answered, "Well what do you think?" Need students to find answers on their own without annoying them. 27 Aug 2013 - 13:06:30 -><span style="color: #900;">..and give them permission to invent them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn I like this guy...promote those decoding and validatin 27 Aug 2013 - 13:44:53 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a critical part of being literate. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Skills! 27 Aug 2013 - 13:45:14 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen Settle a bet? Where is your temple photo from? 27 Aug 2013 - 13:52:41 -><span style="color: #900;">I don't know. It's a creative commons photo I got off of Flickr. Just go to http://flickr.com/creativecommons and search for HDR. Magnificent photos. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Added lines 199-255:
-><span style="color: #900;">Actually not. My last class reunion (40 years) was so different, because so many of us had re-discovered each other via Facebook. Another element of this is students who move around. I've worked with a number of international schools, that serve the children of diplomates, corporate workers, etc. It has meant so much that these children can continue to enjoy the friendships that they develop and engage in more friendship-making because they know that they won't end when their father or mother gets posted to another embassy. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L @Karen - I'll send it through school mail. Sorry - not an e-book 27 Aug 2013 - 12:23:13 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV I like that - let the kids use their tentacles. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:24:07 -><span style="color: #900;">But we have to figure out how to "..channel curriculum through those tentacles." I think that one thing we need to do is reflect on how we use our own tentacles to learn, and purposefully cultivate our tentacles (personal networks) for learning. I can't tell you how much mobile technologies (iPhone/iPad) have excellerating my own learning. That I take my window on the world around with me enables me to constantly adapt. Of course, adapting is becoming tiring to me. Speaking at these new year kickoffs, and seeing all you young teachers makes me thankful that I'm not starting from scratch, that I'm nearing retirement. You have a great adventure ahead of you. My adventure is spinning down. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon It's not about teaching them to use technology, it's about becoming part of the conversation. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:25:49 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes! One of the most revelatory conversations I've overheard was one that my son was having with his geekie high school friends about a video game they'd been playing. It was the conversation that Vera B. Hoyle, my senior english teacher had tried to get us to have about Shakespeare. They're having those conversations. We need to join them. What's promising is that we (teachers) are starting to play those same games. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Nathan Information is a raw material for students 27 Aug 2013 - 12:27:33 -><span style="color: #900;">My first book was called, "Raw Materials for the Mind," and was about working information. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV @nathan this is worth watching http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ 27 Aug 2013 - 12:33:08 -><span style="color: #900;">It's on my list. Thanks! Lawerence Lessig, a law professor, has written a lot about remix culture and copyright. He says that copyright laws are way out of date. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Disciplines are interconnected. So should our curriculum 27 Aug 2013 - 12:35:48 -><span style="color: #900;">Bingo! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Who's truth? That is the question. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:37:22 -><span style="color: #900;">It's the truth of the goal. Does the information help you accomplish your goal within an ethical context. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Its an integrated/interconnected world ... Learning needs to be 27 Aug 2013 - 12:37:26 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Treena FaceTime with a partner across the room? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:37:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kirsten THE DEBATE OF THOSE WHO ARE CONNECTED AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT..SOMETIMES DUE TO FAMILY BUDGETS 27 Aug 2013 - 12:43:31 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes! But it is because your country and mine are WAY to much under the control of the telcos. There are several countries that have made high speed Internet available to all citizens. Finland recently declared high speed Internet to be a legal-right to all citizens, because they realized it was in their self interest for all to be connected to today's prevailing information landscape.</span> -><span style="color: #900;">The legislature of my own state recently passed a law that prevents towns from creating their own Internet service. It happened when one down created one that gave its citizens 10 times the speed as neighboring towns for lower monthly fees. AT&T and Time Warner didn't like that and contributed more than a million dollars in campaign moneys to get the law written. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Added lines 148-198:
<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Should a passion for coding be a PLO? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:12:25 -><span style="color: #900;">Not sure what PLO is. It's not a passion for coding, its a passion for building. Some will not find that coding is their way, and may, instead, prefer carpentry tools, or writing, or... The passion should be for building something that is of value. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Need to read Dan Pink 27 Aug 2013 - 12:15:06 -><span style="color: #900;">Read ''Drive''. It's a fascinating book. It seems that the carrot-stick motivation that we've used for decades simply doesn't work. What works is, and no surprises here... </span> **<span style="color: #900;">Autonomy</span> **<span style="color: #900;">Mastery</span> **<span style="color: #900;">Purpose</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L I have the Daniel Pink Drive book - who wants it? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:15:46 -><span style="color: #900;">That's the one! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV Coding= math + physics + language + problem solving. Not bad... 27 Aug 2013 - 12:16:01 -><span style="color: #900;">Interestingly, this was our focus during the earliest years of computers in the classroom, helping students develop higher order skills and learn to use math as a language, through programming. Logo was the first one, and is still alive and well. If you want to learn more, read Mind.. by Seymore Pappert. It's a little thick, but says a lot. He's been called the father of educational technology. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Hurrah for the arts!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 12:17:24 -><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah! It's about communication. It's just as important as math and science, for the same reasons.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen They are not human; they are smart and connected ;) 27 Aug 2013 - 12:19:31 -><span style="color: #900;">They are different. They've grown up in a different information environment and have helped to invent the culture of that environment. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen @greg. I do pls 27 Aug 2013 - 12:19:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Our students are different. They are not us. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:20:20 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Perfect ... That's the end of the class reunion! 27 Aug 2013 - 12:22:01 Added lines 120-147:
-><span style="color: #900;">An interesting distinction. I wonder what the difference is according to Webster. </span> **<span style="color: #900;">Educating -- <span style="font-family: courier;">give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone, esp. a child), typically at a school or university</span></span> **<span style="color: #900;">Training -- <span style="font-family: courier;">give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone, esp. a child), typically at a school or university</span> -><span style="color: #900;">The question that occurs to me is what best suites the act of preparing children to pass a standardized test, ''educating'' or ''training''. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Skip that furniture budget, obviously! 27 Aug 2013 - 12:10:00 -><span style="color: #900;">It has been interesting watching the school furniture industry trying to define desks and other items that suite 21st century education. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bernie "I'm not preparing students for my future" - I like that. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:11:26 -><span style="color: #900;">..and if we buy into that, how do we decide what our children need to be learning. Thinking that we can fill 13 years of their lives with standards, outcome, etc. is the height of arrogance. There are certainly basics, fundamentals of literacy and the knowledge that gives us all a common context, but beyond that, our children need to be developing and practicing their own personal skills of learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV Should coding be taught in schools? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:11:39 -><span style="color: #900;">That's a great question and a very prominent conversation in the edtech community. My feeling is that they should learn to code, but not like we traditionally teach grammar. We should present them with a sandbox environment where they learn to make computers do interesting things by learning and building with code. It's not for the sake of making them programmers, but to making them thinkers.</span> -><span style="color: #900;">My son majored in computer sicence for one year, but hated it, because they were teaching programming the same way that I was taught grammar, that it's all about syntax. I love to program because I'm self-taught. I think of something I want to computer to do for me, and then find and assemble the commands, like building blocks, that make it happen.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Oz Skilled at learning to learn 27 Aug 2013 - 12:12:01 Added lines 86-119:
<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce70e19b32fa51945c1f0a38ffeb902' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kim canflip in Kelowna issued the same flash drive 27 Aug 2013 - 12:03:14 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Melissa ive got that nifty device 27 Aug 2013 - 12:03:43 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Is that what I have to use for my furniture budget Principal D 27 Aug 2013 - 12:05:44 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce70e19b32fa51945c1f0a38ffeb902' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kim Parents need to hear these things too 27 Aug 2013 - 12:08:09 -><span style="color: #900;">Often, when I work with a district for a number of days, I will volunteer, free of charge, to do an evening session for the community. I agree, these are things they need to hear, just as much as teachers. The community is often a barrier because of their own outdated notions of what education should be about. Interestingly, I will sometimes get a thousand in attendance and sometimes on four. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen Prepare your students for their future. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:08:12 -><span style="color: #900;">"..the future they are going to invent." </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Doug Skills req'd? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:09:50 -><span style="color: #900;">The need to be skilled resourceful learners, with the confidence to invent their own answers/solutions when need-be. What's difficult for us is the fact that these skills can not be easily itemized and that's what teachers like to do, to sequence a list of skills. It's experience and a productive conversation about that experience. I'm reminded of Bill Edwards, my freshman vocational arts teacher. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV This is why "educating" is more important than "training" 27 Aug 2013 - 12:09:51 Deleted lines 85-417:
<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce70e19b32fa51945c1f0a38ffeb902' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kim canflip in Kelowna issued the same flash drive 27 Aug 2013 - 12:03:14 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Melissa ive got that nifty device 27 Aug 2013 - 12:03:43 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Is that what I have to use for my furniture budget Principal D 27 Aug 2013 - 12:05:44 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce70e19b32fa51945c1f0a38ffeb902' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kim Parents need to hear these things too 27 Aug 2013 - 12:08:09 -><span style="color: #900;">Often, when I work with a district for a number of days, I will volunteer, free of charge, to do an evening session for the community. I agree, these are things they need to hear, just as much as teachers. The community is often a barrier because of their own outdated notions of what education should be about. Interestingly, I will sometimes get a thousand in attendance and sometimes on four. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen Prepare your students for their future. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:08:12 -><span style="color: #900;">"..the future they are going to invent." </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Doug Skills req'd? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:09:50 -><span style="color: #900;">The need to be skilled resourceful learners, with the confidence to invent their own answers/solutions when need-be. What's difficult for us is the fact that these skills can not be easily itemized and that's what teachers like to do, to sequence a list of skills. It's experience and a productive conversation about that experience. I'm reminded of Bill Edwards, my freshman vocational arts teacher. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV This is why "educating" is more important than "training" 27 Aug 2013 - 12:09:51 -><span style="color: #900;">An interesting distinction. I wonder what the difference is according to Webster. </span> **<span style="color: #900;">Educating -- <span style="font-family: courier;">give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone, esp. a child), typically at a school or university</span></span> **<span style="color: #900;">Training -- <span style="font-family: courier;">give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone, esp. a child), typically at a school or university</span> -><span style="color: #900;">The question that occurs to me is what best suites the act of preparing children to pass a standardized test, ''educating'' or ''training''. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Skip that furniture budget, obviously! 27 Aug 2013 - 12:10:00 -><span style="color: #900;">It has been interesting watching the school furniture industry trying to define desks and other items that suite 21st century education. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bernie "I'm not preparing students for my future" - I like that. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:11:26 -><span style="color: #900;">..and if we buy into that, how do we decide what our children need to be learning. Thinking that we can fill 13 years of their lives with standards, outcome, etc. is the height of arrogance. There are certainly basics, fundamentals of literacy and the knowledge that gives us all a common context, but beyond that, our children need to be developing and practicing their own personal skills of learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV Should coding be taught in schools? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:11:39 -><span style="color: #900;">That's a great question and a very prominent conversation in the edtech community. My feeling is that they should learn to code, but not like we traditionally teach grammar. We should present them with a sandbox environment where they learn to make computers do interesting things by learning and building with code. It's not for the sake of making them programmers, but to making them thinkers.</span> -><span style="color: #900;">My son majored in computer sicence for one year, but hated it, because they were teaching programming the same way that I was taught grammar, that it's all about syntax. I love to program because I'm self-taught. I think of something I want to computer to do for me, and then find and assemble the commands, like building blocks, that make it happen.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Oz Skilled at learning to learn 27 Aug 2013 - 12:12:01 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Should a passion for coding be a PLO? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:12:25 -><span style="color: #900;">Not sure what PLO is. It's not a passion for coding, its a passion for building. Some will not find that coding is their way, and may, instead, prefer carpentry tools, or writing, or... The passion should be for building something that is of value. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Need to read Dan Pink 27 Aug 2013 - 12:15:06 -><span style="color: #900;">Read ''Drive''. It's a fascinating book. It seems that the carrot-stick motivation that we've used for decades simply doesn't work. What works is, and no surprises here... </span> **<span style="color: #900;">Autonomy</span> **<span style="color: #900;">Mastery</span> **<span style="color: #900;">Purpose</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L I have the Daniel Pink Drive book - who wants it? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:15:46 -><span style="color: #900;">That's the one! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV Coding= math + physics + language + problem solving. Not bad... 27 Aug 2013 - 12:16:01 -><span style="color: #900;">Interestingly, this was our focus during the earliest years of computers in the classroom, helping students develop higher order skills and learn to use math as a language, through programming. Logo was the first one, and is still alive and well. If you want to learn more, read Mind.. by Seymore Pappert. It's a little thick, but says a lot. He's been called the father of educational technology. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Hurrah for the arts!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 12:17:24 -><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah! It's about communication. It's just as important as math and science, for the same reasons.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen They are not human; they are smart and connected ;) 27 Aug 2013 - 12:19:31 -><span style="color: #900;">They are different. They've grown up in a different information environment and have helped to invent the culture of that environment. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen @greg. I do pls 27 Aug 2013 - 12:19:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Our students are different. They are not us. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:20:20 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Perfect ... That's the end of the class reunion! 27 Aug 2013 - 12:22:01 -><span style="color: #900;">Actually not. My last class reunion (40 years) was so different, because so many of us had re-discovered each other via Facebook. Another element of this is students who move around. I've worked with a number of international schools, that serve the children of diplomates, corporate workers, etc. It has meant so much that these children can continue to enjoy the friendships that they develop and engage in more friendship-making because they know that they won't end when their father or mother gets posted to another embassy. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L @Karen - I'll send it through school mail. Sorry - not an e-book 27 Aug 2013 - 12:23:13 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV I like that - let the kids use their tentacles. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:24:07 -><span style="color: #900;">But we have to figure out how to "..channel curriculum through those tentacles." I think that one thing we need to do is reflect on how we use our own tentacles to learn, and purposefully cultivate our tentacles (personal networks) for learning. I can't tell you how much mobile technologies (iPhone/iPad) have excellerating my own learning. That I take my window on the world around with me enables me to constantly adapt. Of course, adapting is becoming tiring to me. Speaking at these new year kickoffs, and seeing all you young teachers makes me thankful that I'm not starting from scratch, that I'm nearing retirement. You have a great adventure ahead of you. My adventure is spinning down. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon It's not about teaching them to use technology, it's about becoming part of the conversation. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:25:49 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes! One of the most revelatory conversations I've overheard was one that my son was having with his geekie high school friends about a video game they'd been playing. It was the conversation that Vera B. Hoyle, my senior english teacher had tried to get us to have about Shakespeare. They're having those conversations. We need to join them. What's promising is that we (teachers) are starting to play those same games. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Nathan Information is a raw material for students 27 Aug 2013 - 12:27:33 -><span style="color: #900;">My first book was called, "Raw Materials for the Mind," and was about working information. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV @nathan this is worth watching http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ 27 Aug 2013 - 12:33:08 -><span style="color: #900;">It's on my list. Thanks! Lawerence Lessig, a law professor, has written a lot about remix culture and copyright. He says that copyright laws are way out of date. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Disciplines are interconnected. So should our curriculum 27 Aug 2013 - 12:35:48 -><span style="color: #900;">Bingo! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Who's truth? That is the question. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:37:22 -><span style="color: #900;">It's the truth of the goal. Does the information help you accomplish your goal within an ethical context. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Its an integrated/interconnected world ... Learning needs to be 27 Aug 2013 - 12:37:26 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Treena FaceTime with a partner across the room? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:37:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kirsten THE DEBATE OF THOSE WHO ARE CONNECTED AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT..SOMETIMES DUE TO FAMILY BUDGETS 27 Aug 2013 - 12:43:31 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes! But it is because your country and mine are WAY to much under the control of the telcos. There are several countries that have made high speed Internet available to all citizens. Finland recently declared high speed Internet to be a legal-right to all citizens, because they realized it was in their self interest for all to be connected to today's prevailing information landscape.</span> -><span style="color: #900;">The legislature of my own state recently passed a law that prevents towns from creating their own Internet service. It happened when one down created one that gave its citizens 10 times the speed as neighboring towns for lower monthly fees. AT&T and Time Warner didn't like that and contributed more than a million dollars in campaign moneys to get the law written. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon I agree. Richer families have more technology. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:46:36 -><span style="color: #900;">We've decided that all citizens should learn to write, not use the wealthy ones. If more and more of the information is networked and digital and exclusively networked and digital, then what's the point of being able to read, if you can't access the text. For the same reason that all children should learn to ready, all children and citizens should have access to the information. It's a national problem. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tracy So we are about asking the right questions. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:46:59 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Are we responsive or reactive? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:47:27 -><span style="color: #900;">What a good question. In the context of what I'm talking about, I would say that the distinction is that for today's children a learning experience that responds to their learning is better than one where they are waiting for someone on the outside (teacher) is reacting. Of course that doesn't mean that we should never react to them. But we need to understand and work toward facilitating experiences that are responsive. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Facts are free ... Putting info into knowledge is where we add value 27 Aug 2013 - 12:48:20 -><span style="color: #900;">Yep! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Learning to ask the question is critical 27 Aug 2013 - 12:48:40 -><span style="color: #900;">Yep! Yet we teaching them to answer questions, not ask them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill We need to teach our kids how to learn 27 Aug 2013 - 12:48:58 -><span style="color: #900;">We need to help them learn to learn. It's a personal endeavor. We all have our own techniques and tricks. In a time of rapid change its not what we bring that the same as everyone else that brings value. It's what we bring that different, how we think solve problems that's different. Another reason why high-stakes standardized testing is so harmful. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce70e19b32fa51945c1f0a38ffeb902' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kim Back channel our classes & groups 27 Aug 2013 - 12:49:20 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon I just read something the other day that said loneliness has increased since social networking. We still need to have real conversation. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:50:32 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes. I think it's a human need, to have the electricity of eye contact. But I wonder, how were they measuring loneliness. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Philosophy. Bring it back. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:53:44 -><span style="color: #900;">You know what I'd bring back? Rhetoric, the art of making logical argument. Sometimes the only thing we have to determine if information is ''true'' is logic.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Good students are not necessarily good learners 27 Aug 2013 - 12:58:59 -><span style="color: #900;">They're good at being taught. I think that one reason I'm a "good learner," is that I have some sever hearing problems and also a particular flavor if A.D.D. that causes met to think very randomly. Get nothing out of class. So I'd have to take the textbook home and figure it out. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tracy Hurray for the practical arts!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 13:04:24 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kere We build and break stuff everyday in kindergarten 27 Aug 2013 - 13:04:28 -><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah for building and breaking. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV Libraries should have "maker-spaces" 27 Aug 2013 - 13:04:45 -><span style="color: #900;">There is a philosophy of education called Reggio Emilia, that originated in Italy right after World War II. Classes are situated like pods around a common space that is like a studio or workshop. Children are encouraged to spend time tinkering in there.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Mick Reminds me of PDP. Every question was answered, "Well what do you think?" Need students to find answers on their own without annoying them. 27 Aug 2013 - 13:06:30 -><span style="color: #900;">..and give them permission to invent them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn I like this guy...promote those decoding and validatin 27 Aug 2013 - 13:44:53 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a critical part of being literate. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Skills! 27 Aug 2013 - 13:45:14 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen Settle a bet? Where is your temple photo from? 27 Aug 2013 - 13:52:41 -><span style="color: #900;">I don't know. It's a creative commons photo I got off of Flickr. Just go to http://flickr.com/creativecommons and search for HDR. Magnificent photos. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Karen 'Numbers can tell a sorry ... ' 27 Aug 2013 - 13:56:20 -><span style="color: #900;">It's what math does. It helps numbers to tell their story. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV He's an expert at making technologies interact with each other 27 Aug 2013 - 13:56:37 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>pkinghorn Another day has passed and I still haven't used algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:57:19 -><span style="color: #900;">I didn't tell you how, at the end of my first afternoon of of teaching myself programming (the computers our school got were without software) I got on my knees and thanked every algebra teacher I'd ever had. Algebra is the language for making numbers behave the way you need them to, to make the computer perform the way you need it to. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Download times are directly correlated to teenager bio rhythms ... 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:00 -><span style="color: #900;">:-) </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Principaldd where's the library of links on the main site? 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:07 -><span style="color: #900;"> </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right' <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd @pking ... If bought the 8 pack ... You were using algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Keri I'm wondering if you can post the links for the music site and others? 27 Aug 2013 - 14:05:29 -><span style="color: #900;">They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Here here!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 14:19:33 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>David Main site is http://landmark-project.com 27 Aug 2013 - 14:31:30 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha = 20 slides for 20 seconds each with limited text. Google it 27 Aug 2013 - 14:42:02 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha -> 20 images not 20 slides of text 27 Aug 2013 - 14:51:09 Greg L need a mike on people to hear their ideas 27 Aug 2013 - 14:55:51 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers us key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:24 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers is key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:42 -><span style="color: #900;">Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 1-9 from:
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Here is the transcript of your backchannel conversation for . This is a wiki page. As such, you can edit this page and insert text into the transcript, contining the conversation, as I have done. To edit, click the EDIT link at the top of the page. The password is ''teacher''. You can indent your comments by inserting '''-->''' at the beginning text. Many HTML codes can also be inserted. Other formatting features can also be found at the bottom of the edit page. Changed lines 9-10 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Now starting to read it. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Now starting to read it. Just passed 10,000 feet, probably over Idaho. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 15-16 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">Hmmm! I should add a feature to signal what type of device you are chatting with. I think I could do that. Might be helpful to me or just interesting. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 21-22 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">Yes! That must of been uncomfortable. It's really hard to expect you to sit and listen to one person for so long, in such small seats. I know that I've spent days at conferences attending sessions, and then the next day presenting the entire day, and sitting and listening made me much more tired. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 31-32 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">I personally prefer cream-of-wheat. I little more flavor. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 37-38 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">I like thinking of it as a ''learning lifestyle''. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">I like thinking of it as a ''learning lifestyle''. Lifelong learning seems to me to be speaking of work. But today, it work, play, family, just about every endeavor requires us to learn and keep learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 51-52 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's just a different state-of-being. ;-) to:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's just a different state-of-being. ;-) </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 61-62 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Functionally it is. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Functionally it is. But the purpose is different. Here, the teacher gets to read all the notes and respond to them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 67-68 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;"> "Naw!" I do wish I still had that neru jacket. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 77-78 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Thing is, it quite impress folks in that rural South Carolina school district. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Thing is, it quite impress folks in that rural South Carolina school district. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed line 84 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">Often, when I work with a district for a number of days, I will volunteer, free of charge, to do an evening session for the community. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Often, when I work with a district for a number of days, I will volunteer, free of charge, to do an evening session for the community. I agree, these are things they need to hear, just as much as teachers. The community is often a barrier because of their own outdated notions of what education should be about. Interestingly, I will sometimes get a thousand in attendance and sometimes on four. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 109-110 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">"..the future they are going to invent." </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 115-116 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">The need to be skilled resourceful learners, with the confidence to invent their own answers/solutions when need-be. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">The need to be skilled resourceful learners, with the confidence to invent their own answers/solutions when need-be. What's difficult for us is the fact that these skills can not be easily itemized and that's what teachers like to do, to sequence a list of skills. It's experience and a productive conversation about that experience. I'm reminded of Bill Edwards, my freshman vocational arts teacher. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed line 121 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">An interesting distinction. I wonder what the difference is according to Webster. </span> Changed lines 124-125 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">The question that occurs to me is what best suites the act of preparing children to pass a standardized test, ''educating'' or ''training''. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">The question that occurs to me is what best suites the act of preparing children to pass a standardized test, ''educating'' or ''training''. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 130-131 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">It has been interesting watching the school furniture industry trying to define desks and other items that suite 21st century education. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">It has been interesting watching the school furniture industry trying to define desks and other items that suite 21st century education. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 136-137 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">..and if we buy into that, how do we decide what our children need to be learning. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">..and if we buy into that, how do we decide what our children need to be learning. Thinking that we can fill 13 years of their lives with standards, outcome, etc. is the height of arrogance. There are certainly basics, fundamentals of literacy and the knowledge that gives us all a common context, but beyond that, our children need to be developing and practicing their own personal skills of learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 142-144 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">That's a great question and a very prominent conversation in the edtech community. -><span style="color: #900;">My son majored in computer sicence for one year, but hated it, because they were teaching programming the same way that I was taught grammar, that it's all about syntax. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">That's a great question and a very prominent conversation in the edtech community. My feeling is that they should learn to code, but not like we traditionally teach grammar. We should present them with a sandbox environment where they learn to make computers do interesting things by learning and building with code. It's not for the sake of making them programmers, but to making them thinkers.</span> -><span style="color: #900;">My son majored in computer sicence for one year, but hated it, because they were teaching programming the same way that I was taught grammar, that it's all about syntax. I love to program because I'm self-taught. I think of something I want to computer to do for me, and then find and assemble the commands, like building blocks, that make it happen.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 153-154 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Not sure what PLO is. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Not sure what PLO is. It's not a passion for coding, its a passion for building. Some will not find that coding is their way, and may, instead, prefer carpentry tools, or writing, or... The passion should be for building something that is of value. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed line 159 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Read ''Drive''. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Read ''Drive''. It's a fascinating book. It seems that the carrot-stick motivation that we've used for decades simply doesn't work. What works is, and no surprises here... </span> Changed lines 168-169 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">That's the one! to:
-><span style="color: #900;">That's the one! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 174-175 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Interestingly, this was our focus during the earliest years of computers in the classroom, helping students develop higher order skills and learn to use math as a language, through programming. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Interestingly, this was our focus during the earliest years of computers in the classroom, helping students develop higher order skills and learn to use math as a language, through programming. Logo was the first one, and is still alive and well. If you want to learn more, read Mind.. by Seymore Pappert. It's a little thick, but says a lot. He's been called the father of educational technology. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 180-181 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah! to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah! It's about communication. It's just as important as math and science, for the same reasons.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 186-187 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">They are different. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">They are different. They've grown up in a different information environment and have helped to invent the culture of that environment. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 200-201 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Actually not. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Actually not. My last class reunion (40 years) was so different, because so many of us had re-discovered each other via Facebook. Another element of this is students who move around. I've worked with a number of international schools, that serve the children of diplomates, corporate workers, etc. It has meant so much that these children can continue to enjoy the friendships that they develop and engage in more friendship-making because they know that they won't end when their father or mother gets posted to another embassy. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 210-211 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">But we have to figure out how to "..channel curriculum through those tentacles." to:
-><span style="color: #900;">But we have to figure out how to "..channel curriculum through those tentacles." I think that one thing we need to do is reflect on how we use our own tentacles to learn, and purposefully cultivate our tentacles (personal networks) for learning. I can't tell you how much mobile technologies (iPhone/iPad) have excellerating my own learning. That I take my window on the world around with me enables me to constantly adapt. Of course, adapting is becoming tiring to me. Speaking at these new year kickoffs, and seeing all you young teachers makes me thankful that I'm not starting from scratch, that I'm nearing retirement. You have a great adventure ahead of you. My adventure is spinning down. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 216-217 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">Yes! One of the most revelatory conversations I've overheard was one that my son was having with his geekie high school friends about a video game they'd been playing. It was the conversation that Vera B. Hoyle, my senior english teacher had tried to get us to have about Shakespeare. They're having those conversations. We need to join them. What's promising is that we (teachers) are starting to play those same games. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 222-223 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">My first book was called, "Raw Materials for the Mind," and was about working information. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">My first book was called, "Raw Materials for the Mind," and was about working information. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 228-229 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's on my list. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's on my list. Thanks! Lawerence Lessig, a law professor, has written a lot about remix culture and copyright. He says that copyright laws are way out of date. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 234-235 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Bingo! to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Bingo! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed line 237 from:
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Who's truth? That is the question. Changed lines 240-241 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's the truth of the goal. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's the truth of the goal. Does the information help you accomplish your goal within an ethical context. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 254-256 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Yes! -><span style="color: #900;">The legislature of my own state recently passed a law that prevents towns from creating their own Internet service. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Yes! But it is because your country and mine are WAY to much under the control of the telcos. There are several countries that have made high speed Internet available to all citizens. Finland recently declared high speed Internet to be a legal-right to all citizens, because they realized it was in their self interest for all to be connected to today's prevailing information landscape.</span> -><span style="color: #900;">The legislature of my own state recently passed a law that prevents towns from creating their own Internet service. It happened when one down created one that gave its citizens 10 times the speed as neighboring towns for lower monthly fees. AT&T and Time Warner didn't like that and contributed more than a million dollars in campaign moneys to get the law written. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed line 258 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">We've decided that all citizens should learn to write, not use the wealthy ones. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">We've decided that all citizens should learn to write, not use the wealthy ones. If more and more of the information is networked and digital and exclusively networked and digital, then what's the point of being able to read, if you can't access the text. For the same reason that all children should learn to ready, all children and citizens should have access to the information. It's a national problem. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 271-272 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">What a good question. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">What a good question. In the context of what I'm talking about, I would say that the distinction is that for today's children a learning experience that responds to their learning is better than one where they are waiting for someone on the outside (teacher) is reacting. Of course that doesn't mean that we should never react to them. But we need to understand and work toward facilitating experiences that are responsive. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 277-278 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Yep! to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Yep! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 283-284 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">Yep! Yet we teaching them to answer questions, not ask them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 289-290 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">We need to help them learn to learn. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">We need to help them learn to learn. It's a personal endeavor. We all have our own techniques and tricks. In a time of rapid change its not what we bring that the same as everyone else that brings value. It's what we bring that different, how we think solve problems that's different. Another reason why high-stakes standardized testing is so harmful. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 299-300 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Yes. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Yes. I think it's a human need, to have the electricity of eye contact. But I wonder, how were they measuring loneliness. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed line 302 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">You know what I'd bring back? to:
-><span style="color: #900;">You know what I'd bring back? Rhetoric, the art of making logical argument. Sometimes the only thing we have to determine if information is ''true'' is logic.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 311-312 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">They're good at being taught. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">They're good at being taught. I think that one reason I'm a "good learner," is that I have some sever hearing problems and also a particular flavor if A.D.D. that causes met to think very randomly. Get nothing out of class. So I'd have to take the textbook home and figure it out. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 321-322 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah for building and breaking. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah for building and breaking. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 327-328 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">There is a philosophy of education called Reggio Emilia, that originated in Italy right after World War II. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">There is a philosophy of education called Reggio Emilia, that originated in Italy right after World War II. Classes are situated like pods around a common space that is like a studio or workshop. Children are encouraged to spend time tinkering in there.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 333-334 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">..and give them permission to invent them. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">..and give them permission to invent them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 339-340 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's a critical part of being literate. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's a critical part of being literate. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 349-350 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">I don't know. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">I don't know. It's a creative commons photo I got off of Flickr. Just go to http://flickr.com/creativecommons and search for HDR. Magnificent photos. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 355-356 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">It's what math does. It helps numbers to tell their story. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 365-366 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">I didn't tell you how, at the end of my first afternoon of of teaching myself programming (the computers our school got were without software) I got on my knees and thanked every algebra teacher I'd ever had. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">I didn't tell you how, at the end of my first afternoon of of teaching myself programming (the computers our school got were without software) I got on my knees and thanked every algebra teacher I'd ever had. Algebra is the language for making numbers behave the way you need them to, to make the computer perform the way you need it to. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 371-372 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;">:-) </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed line 377 from:
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-><span style="color: #900;"> </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right' Changed lines 386-387 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">They are in the Online handouts. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 400-401 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed line 418 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Added lines 1-6:
'''[+++Harnessing the Perfect Storm+++]''' '''[++ SD#20++]''' '''[+Backchannel Transcript+]''' Changed line 424 from:
-><span style="color: #900;">Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> to:
-><span style="color: #900;">Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Changed lines 1-418 from:
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Here is the transcript of your backchannel conversation for . This is a wiki page. As such, you can edit this page and insert text into the transcript, contining the conversation, as I have done. To edit, click the EDIT link at the top of the page. The password is ''teacher''. You can indent your comments by inserting '''-->''' at the beginning text. Many HTML codes can also be inserted. Other formatting features can also be found at the bottom of the edit page. ---- <img src="http://davidwarlick.com/images1/Wordle_-_Create-20130828-075600.png" align="right" ><img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>David I look forward to reading your conversation. 27 Aug 2013 - 11:54:58 -><span style="color: #900;">Now starting to read it. Just passed 10,000 feet, probably over Idaho. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Christine I wish I had my ipad 27 Aug 2013 - 11:55:13 -><span style="color: #900;">Hmmm! I should add a feature to signal what type of device you are chatting with. I think I could do that. Might be helpful to me or just interesting. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd I miss my lawn chair... 27 Aug 2013 - 11:55:24 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes! That must of been uncomfortable. It's really hard to expect you to sit and listen to one person for so long, in such small seats. I know that I've spent days at conferences attending sessions, and then the next day presenting the entire day, and sitting and listening made me much more tired. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L grits - like cream of wheat 27 Aug 2013 - 11:55:28 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kate20 Grrrittts 27 Aug 2013 - 11:55:38 -><span style="color: #900;">I personally prefer cream-of-wheat. I little more flavor. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Gareth Cryer I liked your analogy for life long learning! 27 Aug 2013 - 11:56:02 -><span style="color: #900;">I like thinking of it as a ''learning lifestyle''. Lifelong learning seems to me to be speaking of work. But today, it work, play, family, just about every endeavor requires us to learn and keep learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Dara That is grits with two syllables. 27 Aug 2013 - 11:56:03 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Haystack Wake up Florko 27 Aug 2013 - 11:56:13 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd In west trail we called them polenta 27 Aug 2013 - 11:56:21 -><span style="color: #900;">It's just a different state-of-being. ;-) </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd That's 3 syllables 27 Aug 2013 - 11:57:03 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Gareth Cryer Is this ike passing notes in the classroom?? 27 Aug 2013 - 11:57:45 -><span style="color: #900;">Functionally it is. But the purpose is different. Here, the teacher gets to read all the notes and respond to them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L I have that suit! 27 Aug 2013 - 11:58:42 -><span style="color: #900;"> "Naw!" I do wish I still had that neru jacket. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen Retro suit these days 27 Aug 2013 - 11:58:49 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Nice outfit! 27 Aug 2013 - 11:58:57 -><span style="color: #900;">Thing is, it quite impress folks in that rural South Carolina school district. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Melissa the plaid suit should be our school uniform! 27 Aug 2013 - 11:59:02 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bernie @ wish I had my reading glasses. 27 Aug 2013 - 11:59:21 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce70e19b32fa51945c1f0a38ffeb902' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kim canflip in Kelowna issued the same flash drive 27 Aug 2013 - 12:03:14 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Melissa ive got that nifty device 27 Aug 2013 - 12:03:43 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Is that what I have to use for my furniture budget Principal D 27 Aug 2013 - 12:05:44 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce70e19b32fa51945c1f0a38ffeb902' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kim Parents need to hear these things too 27 Aug 2013 - 12:08:09 -><span style="color: #900;">Often, when I work with a district for a number of days, I will volunteer, free of charge, to do an evening session for the community. I agree, these are things they need to hear, just as much as teachers. The community is often a barrier because of their own outdated notions of what education should be about. Interestingly, I will sometimes get a thousand in attendance and sometimes on four. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen Prepare your students for their future. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:08:12 -><span style="color: #900;">"..the future they are going to invent." </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Doug Skills req'd? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:09:50 -><span style="color: #900;">The need to be skilled resourceful learners, with the confidence to invent their own answers/solutions when need-be. What's difficult for us is the fact that these skills can not be easily itemized and that's what teachers like to do, to sequence a list of skills. It's experience and a productive conversation about that experience. I'm reminded of Bill Edwards, my freshman vocational arts teacher. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV This is why "educating" is more important than "training" 27 Aug 2013 - 12:09:51 -><span style="color: #900;">An interesting distinction. I wonder what the difference is according to Webster. </span> **<span style="color: #900;">Educating -- <span style="font-family: courier;">give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone, esp. a child), typically at a school or university</span></span> **<span style="color: #900;">Training -- <span style="font-family: courier;">give intellectual, moral, and social instruction to (someone, esp. a child), typically at a school or university</span> -><span style="color: #900;">The question that occurs to me is what best suites the act of preparing children to pass a standardized test, ''educating'' or ''training''. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Skip that furniture budget, obviously! 27 Aug 2013 - 12:10:00 -><span style="color: #900;">It has been interesting watching the school furniture industry trying to define desks and other items that suite 21st century education. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bernie "I'm not preparing students for my future" - I like that. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:11:26 -><span style="color: #900;">..and if we buy into that, how do we decide what our children need to be learning. Thinking that we can fill 13 years of their lives with standards, outcome, etc. is the height of arrogance. There are certainly basics, fundamentals of literacy and the knowledge that gives us all a common context, but beyond that, our children need to be developing and practicing their own personal skills of learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV Should coding be taught in schools? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:11:39 -><span style="color: #900;">That's a great question and a very prominent conversation in the edtech community. My feeling is that they should learn to code, but not like we traditionally teach grammar. We should present them with a sandbox environment where they learn to make computers do interesting things by learning and building with code. It's not for the sake of making them programmers, but to making them thinkers.</span> -><span style="color: #900;">My son majored in computer sicence for one year, but hated it, because they were teaching programming the same way that I was taught grammar, that it's all about syntax. I love to program because I'm self-taught. I think of something I want to computer to do for me, and then find and assemble the commands, like building blocks, that make it happen.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Oz Skilled at learning to learn 27 Aug 2013 - 12:12:01 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Should a passion for coding be a PLO? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:12:25 -><span style="color: #900;">Not sure what PLO is. It's not a passion for coding, its a passion for building. Some will not find that coding is their way, and may, instead, prefer carpentry tools, or writing, or... The passion should be for building something that is of value. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Need to read Dan Pink 27 Aug 2013 - 12:15:06 -><span style="color: #900;">Read ''Drive''. It's a fascinating book. It seems that the carrot-stick motivation that we've used for decades simply doesn't work. What works is, and no surprises here... </span> **<span style="color: #900;">Autonomy</span> **<span style="color: #900;">Mastery</span> **<span style="color: #900;">Purpose</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L I have the Daniel Pink Drive book - who wants it? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:15:46 -><span style="color: #900;">That's the one! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV Coding= math + physics + language + problem solving. Not bad... 27 Aug 2013 - 12:16:01 -><span style="color: #900;">Interestingly, this was our focus during the earliest years of computers in the classroom, helping students develop higher order skills and learn to use math as a language, through programming. Logo was the first one, and is still alive and well. If you want to learn more, read Mind.. by Seymore Pappert. It's a little thick, but says a lot. He's been called the father of educational technology. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Hurrah for the arts!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 12:17:24 -><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah! It's about communication. It's just as important as math and science, for the same reasons.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen They are not human; they are smart and connected ;) 27 Aug 2013 - 12:19:31 -><span style="color: #900;">They are different. They've grown up in a different information environment and have helped to invent the culture of that environment. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen @greg. I do pls 27 Aug 2013 - 12:19:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Our students are different. They are not us. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:20:20 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Perfect ... That's the end of the class reunion! 27 Aug 2013 - 12:22:01 -><span style="color: #900;">Actually not. My last class reunion (40 years) was so different, because so many of us had re-discovered each other via Facebook. Another element of this is students who move around. I've worked with a number of international schools, that serve the children of diplomates, corporate workers, etc. It has meant so much that these children can continue to enjoy the friendships that they develop and engage in more friendship-making because they know that they won't end when their father or mother gets posted to another embassy. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L @Karen - I'll send it through school mail. Sorry - not an e-book 27 Aug 2013 - 12:23:13 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV I like that - let the kids use their tentacles. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:24:07 -><span style="color: #900;">But we have to figure out how to "..channel curriculum through those tentacles." I think that one thing we need to do is reflect on how we use our own tentacles to learn, and purposefully cultivate our tentacles (personal networks) for learning. I can't tell you how much mobile technologies (iPhone/iPad) have excellerating my own learning. That I take my window on the world around with me enables me to constantly adapt. Of course, adapting is becoming tiring to me. Speaking at these new year kickoffs, and seeing all you young teachers makes me thankful that I'm not starting from scratch, that I'm nearing retirement. You have a great adventure ahead of you. My adventure is spinning down. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon It's not about teaching them to use technology, it's about becoming part of the conversation. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:25:49 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes! One of the most revelatory conversations I've overheard was one that my son was having with his geekie high school friends about a video game they'd been playing. It was the conversation that Vera B. Hoyle, my senior english teacher had tried to get us to have about Shakespeare. They're having those conversations. We need to join them. What's promising is that we (teachers) are starting to play those same games. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Nathan Information is a raw material for students 27 Aug 2013 - 12:27:33 -><span style="color: #900;">My first book was called, "Raw Materials for the Mind," and was about working information. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV @nathan this is worth watching http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/ 27 Aug 2013 - 12:33:08 -><span style="color: #900;">It's on my list. Thanks! Lawerence Lessig, a law professor, has written a lot about remix culture and copyright. He says that copyright laws are way out of date. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Disciplines are interconnected. So should our curriculum 27 Aug 2013 - 12:35:48 -><span style="color: #900;">Bingo! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Who's truth? That is the question. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:37:22 -><span style="color: #900;">It's the truth of the goal. Does the information help you accomplish your goal within an ethical context. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Its an integrated/interconnected world ... Learning needs to be 27 Aug 2013 - 12:37:26 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Treena FaceTime with a partner across the room? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:37:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kirsten THE DEBATE OF THOSE WHO ARE CONNECTED AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT..SOMETIMES DUE TO FAMILY BUDGETS 27 Aug 2013 - 12:43:31 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes! But it is because your country and mine are WAY to much under the control of the telcos. There are several countries that have made high speed Internet available to all citizens. Finland recently declared high speed Internet to be a legal-right to all citizens, because they realized it was in their self interest for all to be connected to today's prevailing information landscape.</span> -><span style="color: #900;">The legislature of my own state recently passed a law that prevents towns from creating their own Internet service. It happened when one down created one that gave its citizens 10 times the speed as neighboring towns for lower monthly fees. AT&T and Time Warner didn't like that and contributed more than a million dollars in campaign moneys to get the law written. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon I agree. Richer families have more technology. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:46:36 -><span style="color: #900;">We've decided that all citizens should learn to write, not use the wealthy ones. If more and more of the information is networked and digital and exclusively networked and digital, then what's the point of being able to read, if you can't access the text. For the same reason that all children should learn to ready, all children and citizens should have access to the information. It's a national problem. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tracy So we are about asking the right questions. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:46:59 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Are we responsive or reactive? 27 Aug 2013 - 12:47:27 -><span style="color: #900;">What a good question. In the context of what I'm talking about, I would say that the distinction is that for today's children a learning experience that responds to their learning is better than one where they are waiting for someone on the outside (teacher) is reacting. Of course that doesn't mean that we should never react to them. But we need to understand and work toward facilitating experiences that are responsive. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Facts are free ... Putting info into knowledge is where we add value 27 Aug 2013 - 12:48:20 -><span style="color: #900;">Yep! </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Learning to ask the question is critical 27 Aug 2013 - 12:48:40 -><span style="color: #900;">Yep! Yet we teaching them to answer questions, not ask them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill We need to teach our kids how to learn 27 Aug 2013 - 12:48:58 -><span style="color: #900;">We need to help them learn to learn. It's a personal endeavor. We all have our own techniques and tricks. In a time of rapid change its not what we bring that the same as everyone else that brings value. It's what we bring that different, how we think solve problems that's different. Another reason why high-stakes standardized testing is so harmful. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/1ce70e19b32fa51945c1f0a38ffeb902' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kim Back channel our classes & groups 27 Aug 2013 - 12:49:20 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon I just read something the other day that said loneliness has increased since social networking. We still need to have real conversation. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:50:32 -><span style="color: #900;">Yes. I think it's a human need, to have the electricity of eye contact. But I wonder, how were they measuring loneliness. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Philosophy. Bring it back. 27 Aug 2013 - 12:53:44 -><span style="color: #900;">You know what I'd bring back? Rhetoric, the art of making logical argument. Sometimes the only thing we have to determine if information is ''true'' is logic.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Bill Good students are not necessarily good learners 27 Aug 2013 - 12:58:59 -><span style="color: #900;">They're good at being taught. I think that one reason I'm a "good learner," is that I have some sever hearing problems and also a particular flavor if A.D.D. that causes met to think very randomly. Get nothing out of class. So I'd have to take the textbook home and figure it out. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Tracy Hurray for the practical arts!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 13:04:24 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Kere We build and break stuff everyday in kindergarten 27 Aug 2013 - 13:04:28 -><span style="color: #900;">Hurrah for building and breaking. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV Libraries should have "maker-spaces" 27 Aug 2013 - 13:04:45 -><span style="color: #900;">There is a philosophy of education called Reggio Emilia, that originated in Italy right after World War II. Classes are situated like pods around a common space that is like a studio or workshop. Children are encouraged to spend time tinkering in there.</span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Mick Reminds me of PDP. Every question was answered, "Well what do you think?" Need students to find answers on their own without annoying them. 27 Aug 2013 - 13:06:30 -><span style="color: #900;">..and give them permission to invent them. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn I like this guy...promote those decoding and validatin 27 Aug 2013 - 13:44:53 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a critical part of being literate. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Marilyn Skills! 27 Aug 2013 - 13:45:14 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Karen Settle a bet? Where is your temple photo from? 27 Aug 2013 - 13:52:41 -><span style="color: #900;">I don't know. It's a creative commons photo I got off of Flickr. Just go to http://flickr.com/creativecommons and search for HDR. Magnificent photos. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Karen 'Numbers can tell a sorry ... ' 27 Aug 2013 - 13:56:20 -><span style="color: #900;">It's what math does. It helps numbers to tell their story. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>MikeV He's an expert at making technologies interact with each other 27 Aug 2013 - 13:56:37 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>pkinghorn Another day has passed and I still haven't used algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:57:19 -><span style="color: #900;">I didn't tell you how, at the end of my first afternoon of of teaching myself programming (the computers our school got were without software) I got on my knees and thanked every algebra teacher I'd ever had. Algebra is the language for making numbers behave the way you need them to, to make the computer perform the way you need it to. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd Download times are directly correlated to teenager bio rhythms ... 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:00 -><span style="color: #900;">:-) </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Principaldd where's the library of links on the main site? 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:07 -><span style="color: #900;"> </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right' <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Principaldd @pking ... If bought the 8 pack ... You were using algebra 27 Aug 2013 - 13:58:51 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Keri I'm wondering if you can post the links for the music site and others? 27 Aug 2013 - 14:05:29 -><span style="color: #900;">They are in the Online handouts. For making the music, I was using Intuim. But today I use Logic, or an app on my iPad called Music Studio. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Shannon Here here!!! 27 Aug 2013 - 14:19:33 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>David Main site is http://landmark-project.com 27 Aug 2013 - 14:31:30 <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha = 20 slides for 20 seconds each with limited text. Google it 27 Aug 2013 - 14:42:02 -><span style="color: #900;">It's a cool thing to watch - an art form. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> <img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e' height='25' style='float: left; margin-right: 10px;'>Greg L Pecha Kucha -> 20 images not 20 slides of text 27 Aug 2013 - 14:51:09 Greg L need a mike on people to hear their ideas 27 Aug 2013 - 14:55:51 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers us key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:24 Greg L Collaboration between students & teachers is key 27 Aug 2013 - 16:49:42 -><span style="color: #900;">Thanks so much for participating and for adding to my learning. </span> - dfw<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/7f39fcc720abd8b9787b378a95ee8149' height='25' align='right'> Added line 1:
Future home of [++Kootenay-Columbia++] backchannel transcript |