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Shelley Wright’s essay, Flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy is a must read, and a possible game changer.  She argues that if we want to embed Nth C (21C) skills in our curriculum we can and must start with the most important elements of creativity and work up to the derivations of knowledge.  In between she posits a process of student…

Cross posted from The Learning Pond

In her essay for NAIS, “The Solutionaries Education for a Better World”, Zoe Weil provokes us to honestly and thoughtfully answer the question “What is schooling for?”  It is a question that many of us are asking, and I want to launch off of several of her key points as real action items that we can embrace in the very short term to make fundamental change in how our…

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How fast is the world of education changing?  How hard will it be to keep up with this pace?  How will we adjust, adopt, adapt and evolve in real time when our traditions are based on months and years of discussion, evaluation, assessment, training, and strategic implementation? 

Here is a shotgun of radical changes that I culled from media and the blogosphere over just this…

I believe that we are at the cusp of a transformative revolution in the impact of IT in education. The future impact of IT will most likely far outweigh the impact observed over the last 30 years since the PC first entered the school gates.

Sadly, I believe many schools will ‘miss the boat’ and face significant challenges as they are increasing sidelined with reducing enrolments, as parents and students vote with their feet.

While…

Gaming online has increased in popularity amongst students and at younger ages.  Ask most younger teens and tweens what the average age of a gamer is and they are likely to say 14.  The real statistic is 34. And parents will be surprised to know who rates the games they buy for their children.  Check our our February newsletter on the topic...

What Parents Need to Know About the Gaming Industry

from…

Flying to NAIS in Seattle finally gave me time to put my thoughts on PLNs into writing. At the conference I am hosting one of the "speed innovating" tables on the topic of Making the Most of Personal Learning Networks.



My intention is to explain the What, Why, and How of PLNs, and then to share a few thoughts on growing and deriving value from all this activity. The short version of my talk is: connect with colleagues online for…

The Daily Find is out. How can you participate in this year’s online community? Pass this around to your community and encourage them to follow from a distance if they can’t be in Seattle. There will be a lot of information coming out over the next week related to events in Seattle at the NAIS Annual Conference.

The Daily Find Feb, 27, 2012…

Co-founders of Flat Classroom®, Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis, are excited to be able to offer this global collaborative project to classrooms around the world. This project will run as a pilot for the coming semester, February-April 2012 and be open to Prep/Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 classrooms (4-7

year old students).

Can very young students effectively connect, communicate, and collaborate in a global project?

What does this look like? What products can students in…

Hi All,

Happy Friday…Sites of the Week are up

http://bigenhoc.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/sites-of-the-week-week-18/

This week includes

• Purdue Online Writing Lab
• WearaBraille
• Consumer Attitudes Toward e-Book Reading
• SOPA and PIPA Background Information
• OverDrive

January, 2012 newsletter from ChildrenOnline.org addresses the question of using student names on the web.  When is it appropriate to do so and why?  Join the conversation.

Visit our newsletter page: ChildrenOnline.org/newsletter.html

Welcome back and happy 2012. Sites of the week are posted…

http://bigenhoc.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/sites-of-the-week-week-17/

This week features:

• Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music
• Twitter Fall
• Best free documentary websites
• Essay Tagger
• Emancipation Proclamation: Freedoms first steps (lesson from…

Vicki Davis will present a workshop entitled, “Flattening Classrooms, Expanding Minds” as part of the Bucks County Intermediate Unit #22 Speaker Series on Thursday January 12, 2011 at 3:00pm EST USA or Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 20:00:00 GMT […

Many parents tell us that their child has had Facebook for so long that they cannot take it away from them, despite their concerns about the child's use of it.  For those parents, and others who feel that they it is unrealistic to ask their children/young teens to wait before using Facebook we offer these suggestions for using Facebook more safely...

http://www.childrenonline.org/newsletters/Dec11.pdf

Doug