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It should be part of the online handouts. The link says "Visuals." - dfw
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Being that they're so old, I would suspect that most of them are. - dfw
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..as is Singapore. I like what Finland is doing, if I might mention that ever-mentioned country. A book has recently been published called, "The Finish Lesson." The author has been over here giving talks, and there are a couple of them available online as video files. I wrote a blog article about it. I'm in the air now and do not have access to the Web so I don't have the web link. But if you go to http://blog.idave.us/ and scroll down a bit you'll find it. There's a picture of the Finnish flag. - dfw
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It was probably Dan Pink and Richard Florida. - dfw
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I don't like the STEAM acronym. I think that art / design, needs to be integrated into science, tech, etc. - dfw
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The other is called, "The Flight of the Creative Class." His idea is that places that creative people go to become economically vibrant -- not to mention successful. So what draws people to those cities, and how might other cities draw them.
What I wonder is how might small towns/rural America keep its creative children. Because of technology, creative people can produce from their small towns almost as well as from large cities. Yet, they continue to flee to the San Francisco, Seattle and New York, to mention some of the larger ones, and Asheville and Wilmington North Carolina to include some smaller ones that Florida has draw attention to. How do we stop the brain drain that is happening in rural America. - dfw
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Actually, they do a lot of talking too. It's just that they don't have to stop talking when they have to leave. - dfw
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Again, I maintain that they've embraced a new information experiences, utilizing a new information landscape that is digital, networked, and digital. The mobile phone is not their technology of choice. It is simply where their friends are. - dfw
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They need to be connected and they need to be, what I'm increasingly called, "Learning-Literate." The need the skills to learn in today's prevailing information landscape. Once they're literate, they learn by being contacted to the global conversation about school 2.0. - dfw
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I agree, but not art for art's sake. It's art, music and drama because they are compelling ways of communicating. - dfw
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That's a good question. One approach is to say that discomfort isn't necessarily a bad thing. Perhaps we should become comfortable with discomfort. I'm not sure I agree with that. But I will say that I've been involved in education technology for thirty years now. There is absolutely no excuse for a teacher to be afraid of technology. It's hear and it's the way that we work and communicate. - dfw
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I've had people Google the answers -- and that's OK! - dfw
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I get that a lot! But I don't agree ;-) - dfw
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I've attended a number of video games in education conferences and one of the best presentations I've seen was one about a study on how children cheat in video games. Much of it, though found, was actually incredibly resourceful thinking. - dfw
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If your district has a committee on innovative education, certainly you should invite students to be part of it, and not just your "A" students. Actually, "A" students don't like this this stuff. They're "A" students because they've learned to play the "school" game. - dfw
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It's about networked, digital and abundant information and responsive learning experiences to provoke conversation, inspire personal investment and are guided by safely-made mistakes. - dfw
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One term that get's bandied about is PLNs or Personal Learning Networks. My last book was about the subject, how teachers are engaging in professional development every day, by engaging in digital conversations with other educators around the world. - dfw
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Yes! What does that do to our definition of being literate. - dfw
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Isn't that true of us. The right answer is the one that helps us accomplish our goal! - dfw
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"In the Cloud!" ;-) - dfw
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It made perfect sense when we were preparing our children to work in straight rows, performing repetitive tasks, under close supervision. Today, they need to become resourceful learners. - dfw
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But it is also important to note that our kids know how to play the information/technology. They need us to help them learn to work it. - dfw
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I recently talks with an educator who developed her own textbook, though it was more of a web site. She called it her digital curriculum. I think that the textbook, as we know it, should go away and be replaced with curriculum that is developed by the classroom teacher. - dfw
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Yep, but no one is truly using their imaginations to redefine the textbook. - dfw
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But again, how might that textbook be responsive, provoke conversation, inspire personal investment, and teach with mistakes? We have to go much further than just digital text that you can annotate. We aren't using our imaginations. We just listening to corporate business plans. - dfw
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Thanks! I enjoyed being with you! - dfw
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