The title is in quotes, because I lifted it from dharter’s blog, Thinking Allowed…who in turn quoted it from Pa. schools say high-school laptop program works so far, as a rebuttal against the NY Times article, Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops… (phew – that was complicated )
“They have laptops at home, iPods, [...]
Image: Brain Dissolving Detail by flora.cyclam made available by a creative commons license on flickr.
The Information Age we all prepared for is ending. Rising in its place is what I call the Conceptual Age, an era in which mastery of abilities that we’ve often overlooked and undervalued marks the fault line between who gets [...]
I just discovered this new (to me, at least) blog On the Brain by Dr. Merzenich, a leader in neuroplasticity from UCSF.
I’m excited about this little discovery because brain plasticity – the ability my, your brain has to reorganize itself – supports my belief that I can find ways to help people learn, that learning [...]
“If we can help children slow down and think,” Dr. Haick [school principal, Piedmont Avenue Elementary School] said, “they have the answers within themselves.”
from:In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN, Published: June 16, 2007, NYTimes
mindfulness
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I discovered VoiceThread while perusing Barbara’s blog Dare to Dream . It took no time at all to figure out how it works and to start playing with the technology. I literally got chills while watching the ‘What’s a voicethread anyway?’ intro.
Let’s see if it works…
My first VoiceThread
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Barbara, of Dare to Dream, recently posted this – taken from a t-shirt she acquired at NECC this year. (I’d love to get one of them!)
21 Skills for 21st century learning!
Can your students….
Make complex choices?
Benchmark a process?
manage a negotiation?
Communicate clearly?
Motivate others?
Connect globally?
Organize information?
Cope with change?
Read a digital map?
Demonstrate innovativeness?
Resolve conflict?
Distinguish fact from opinion?
Respond to a [...]
The Power of Personal RelationshipsBy Thomas S. Mawhinney and Laura L. SaganPhi Delta Kappan, March 2007
The essence, the very essence, of what I believe as an educator is summed up in this understanding:
We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in [...]
It’s almost a moot point – why technology in schools?
Because.
Because, as is so strikingly underlined in Did you know 2.0 (Shift Happens) technology can not be separated from the rest of life, it has become enmeshed with what we know, do, and understand about many things. In particular for our students today who were born [...]
Image: Crystal by louisa-catlover made available on flickr by a creative commons license.
I found this little video (link at bottom of post) through Dr. Scott McLeod’s blog dangerously irrelevant
It is a speech given by Dr. Richard Elmore and it is a sobering description of a present reality in today’s schools that cries out to [...]
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