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As you know, current literature indicates the classroom is changing. More and more, we are asking teachers to create environments for children to be collaborative, creative, and connected. The recent Independent

School magazine devotes space to

"Reading

and Writing in the 21^st Century."

We, at Fredericksburg Academy, have the opportunity to participate in a national program with key people engaged in this process. The Powerful Learning Practice…

Another burst of laughter from one of the study hall rooms caused me to rise from my post in the lobby and go check to see what was up. When I walked in, I couldn't help but burst into laughter myself. Every single student was looking up at me with an expression that was a perfect blend of guileless innocence and an inwardly guilty conscience. I told them I wished I had had a camera with me,…

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I was just watching a fascinating video (thanks Matthew): TED Talk - Will Wright "Toys that make worlds", and I'm thinking to myself...

this is great!

I want to remember what he's saying.

I should really write this down, because I'm never going to remember it.

...and then I remembered there is a comment box for videos. So instead of just commenting on the video as in, "this…

Dave Warlick writes:

Here’s the point of my sharing this. My daughter, like most (if not all) of her friends have been using computers as their principal information tool for much of their lives. Although their high school

experience was relatively technology-poor, nearly all of their writing

was on computer, and a significant, if not majority, of their research

was networked and…

I read Nancy Atwell's, “In the Middle” and that did it.

I've been a strong believer in a student-centered constructivist approach every since. Much of what I've done in technology has been inspired by that vision and like Billy Bragg in his song, “The Great Leap Forward,” I sometimes

wistfully pine for the day the…

I think I've got it...…

Scott McLeod voices this observation:

“…can anyone else think of an employment sector other than K-12 and postsecondary education where employees have the right to refuse to use technology?

For example, a grocery store checker doesn’t get to say ‘No thanks, I don’t think I’ll use a register.’ A stockbroker doesn’t get to say, ‘No thanks, I don’t think I’ll use a computer.’ An architect doesn’t

get to say, ‘No thanks, I don’t think I’ll use AutoCAD.’ But…

The Students2Oh blog is up and running. Kevin's post about Arrogance, Perception, & Mistakes has some interesting thoughts about the development of this project, but as several commenters say, "focus on the content." It will be interesting to continue to read this new set of student voices in the blogosphere. It's definitely making it to my aggregator.…

• Number of people in the world: 6 billion
• Average number of people per family: 6
• Total families in the world: 1 billion
• Fraction who celebrate Christmas: 1/3
• Average number of cookies left out for Santa: 3
• Total number of cookies eaten by Santa on Christmas eve/morning: 1 billion
  
  
• Average number of calories per cookie: 100
• Total number of calories…

Christmas came early this year. I have been going back and forth between ordering an XO (OLPC) or the Eee PC. Yesterday, the brown “wells Fargo Wagon” delivered my Eee PC. Within 5 minutes, it was up and running on an encrypted internet at home. It came with SKYPE, AIM and Yahoo installed so my IM was easy to configure. It also has Open Office installed. I plan to keep it in the Linux environment and use only Open-Source…