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It’s been a few days since John Pederson posted this Tweet, but I’ve been thinking about that phrasing a lot ever since. It’s pretty obvious that as my professional life has changed, my interest has been moving away from classroom practice more toward individual learning and how we help educators understand the potentials of these [...]
The Education 3.0 series is on a short hold as issues with an overheating computer (with all the post drafts are being held!) are being resolved.
In the meantime, another gem just came through on Twitter regarding mobile adoption in Africa. This one’s from Peter Fleck:
@pfhyper Great vid on mobile phone scene in Africa. http://bit.ly/17NQqn [...]
A great essay by Steven Johnson in the Wall Street Journal this weekend “How the E-Book Will Change the Way we Read and Write” has me thinking hard once again about reading and writing skills and literacies as we move toward an even more digitally integrated world of texts and links. It immediately made me [...]
Note: This article is a part of the Designing Education 3.0 series at Education Futures.
Little evidence suggests that new technologies in the classroom are being used to transform educational paradigms. At last year’s ASOMEX technology conference, ISTE’s Don Knezek pointed out that student graduation rates — and their rates of interest in schools — have [...]
Note: This article is a part of the Designing Education 3.0 series at Education Futures.
An an era driven by globalized relationships, innovative social technologies, and fueled by accelerating change, how should we reinvent schools?
Education 3.0 schools produce knowledge-producing students, not automatons that recite facts that may never be applied usefully. Education 3.0 substitutes this “just [...]
This week, Education Futures presents a series on Education 3.0. For a little background on this new paradigm of human capital development, you may wish to start with this chart on Education 3.0, or view this presentation on SlideShare.
This is my take on the future of education. Just as there are various conceptualizations of [...]
My nine-year old Tucker plays AAU basketball for a struggling inner-city team about 30 minutes from where we live. His teammates call him “Shadow” and most times we are the only white family in the gym for games and practice. We (mostly my wife Wendy) haul his (and his sister’s) butt down there three times [...]
Spring semester at the University of Minnesota will conclude in about a month, and I am already busy assembling my summer schedule. So far, it’s looking great!
May 20-24, 2009, various talks, Destination ImagiNation Global Finals, Knoxville
May 26, 2009, opening keynote, ITSMF Academy, Garderen (Netherlands)
May 26, 2009, talk/presentation, Creative Company Conference, Amsterdam
May 29, 2009, talk/seminar, [...]
So, Kathleen Blake Yancey has been an influence on my teaching for a good long time, all the way back to the mid 1990s when I was doing research on professional teaching portfolios during a sabbatical from classroom. Her work and ideas have been an important part of the conversation around teaching and writing, and [...]
So here is the money question: What two things (and only two) would you tell educational leaders are the most important steps they can take to lead change today? I got that one from a professor at Oakland University last week, and after pausing for what seemed like an excruciatingly long time, I answered “build [...]
Just a quick programming note: my interview with Kathleen Blake Yancey, author of “Writing in the 21st Century” and former president of the National Council of Teachers of English, has been rescheduled for this Thursday at noon EST. I have a host of questions to ask, but would love to know what you want to [...]