Educator 2.0

The 21st Century Teacher

2008-11-20T13:45:00.045-05:00

The National Academies has released a new book titled, Assessing Accomplished Teaching: Advanced-Level Certification Programs, that declares:Assessing Accomplished Teaching finds that teachers who earn board certification are more effective at improving their students' achievement than other teachers, but school systems vary greatly in

21st Century Learner

2008-03-24T12:23:00.002-04:00

I just picked up this video from Dr. Scott McLeod's blog feed. He is the director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE).The video is very relevant if you consider yourself an educator or learner. Although this guy is way more productive than I am (easily accomplished), he gets the 21st Century, "The World is Flat" thing.Nathan Lowell has a couple

What's on the Agenda for 2008

2008-01-15T21:15:00.002-05:00

Susan McLester, editor in chief of Technology & Learning magazine, has posted the Ten Top Tech Trends for 2008 at TechLearning.com. They are as follows:Data MiningCyberbullying21st Century SkillsDigital ContentLearning at Leisure (24/7)Personal RespondersMobile ToolsBandwidthLinuxThe Participatory WebAt the end of the article she lists several "Trends We'd Like to See". The comments that follow

K12 Online Conference and Web 2.0

2007-10-18T07:28:00.000-04:00

The K-12 Online Conference is a free, worldwide online conference now in progress, running from October 15-19 and October 22-26. It addresses how the Web 2.0 can influence learning, and this year's theme is “Playing with Boundaries”.Presentation topics include "What is a Web 2.0 classroom", blogs, wikis, online tools, cell phones and non-tethered appliances, plus more. Three live chat events

Open Educational Resources (OER)

2007-09-05T15:15:00.001-04:00

What are OER? And why are they important to educators everywhere?For good general background information visit the OER Wikipedia page, which is itself an example of OER!If you want a technical viewpoint on the open source movement read Tim O'Reilly's June 2004 article, Open Source Paradigm Shift (remember, shift happens!)Or, below you will find a short list and description of a few open

One Laptop Per Child - OLPC

2007-06-28T21:39:00.001-04:00

Speaking of a 21st Century education, OLPC cannot be taken simply as a project that is distributing computers.It is about changing how the world educates children, how families and friends communicate, about creative learning.For the vision from the OLPC leaders Seymour Papert, Walter Bender, and Nicholas Negroponte watch this seven minute video.Afterward, revisit the previous post. Follow the

21st Century Education

2007-06-27T22:22:00.000-04:00

The video below is an updated version of the "Did You Know -- Shift Happens" presentation/phenomena. It is hosted at shifthappens.wikispaces.com.So, I wonder why a lot of schools in the U.S. seem to be using a model of education established in 1892 by The Committee of Ten and revised in 1918 with The Cardinal Principles of Secondary Education?

More on Audio & Video Podcasts

2007-05-28T22:17:00.000-04:00

There are many sites that provide both audio and video resources for the classroom teacher. Some are oriented more towards professional development and tips on how to use this technology as an integrated component of instruction, or, as an applied tool to enhance instruction. In either case, audio and video podcasts are technology students have grown up with and will, at the least, capture

Education Podcast Network

2007-05-15T23:11:00.000-04:00

The Education Podcast Network (EPN) ... "is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century." (quoted from EPNweb.org)It is the effort of David Warlick and The Landmark Project.A podcast is a digital audio file, or

What is Web 2.0?

2007-05-14T15:11:00.000-04:00

O'Reilly Media, Inc. is credited with creating the phrase Web 2.0 for a conference first held in October 2004 addressing business models, post Internet bubble crash, and design patterns that were emerging and surviving on the Web. By 2005 "more than 9.5 million citations in Google" for Web 2.0 had been recorded.The links above lead to a technical discussion of Web 2.0, however, listed on the

Encyclopedia of Life

2007-05-09T21:34:00.000-04:00

This is a prime example of what is possible now. Cataloging, collaboration, data sharing, organizing, preserving, visualizing life on Earth as we know it, today. This is what science and technology can do and be. And this is what educators need to participate in and prepare their students for, The Encyclopedia of Life.The video on the home page is another example of what technology makes

Globalization in the Information Age

2007-05-08T20:40:00.000-04:00

This post and the previous were both purloined from The Infinite Thinking Machine blog entry titled, Building cognitive maps for the read/write web, posted by Wesley Fryer. They showcase "a bazillion" ideas and examples of innovative instructional methods that include and extend beyond tech and Web 2.0. ITM is run by great teachers who let you into their world, and, as I have done, use their

Learning to Adapt to New Technology

2007-05-06T20:11:00.000-04:00

The video below is a segment from a 2001 Norwegian television program called Introduction to the Book (a.k.a. Medieval Helpdesk -- a humorous look at new technology and tech support).