Creating a Path for Learning in the 21st Century

• The Education Media Network

  tags: education

• Weblogg-ed » No, Actually, You’re Out of Balance

  tags: willrichardson weblogg balance

• How Social Media Is Having a Positive Impact On Our Culture [OPINION]

  “First, on my way to go sit down and read the newspaper at my coffee shop, I got a message from my 10-year-old son, just saying good morning and letting me know he was going to a birthday party today. I don’t get to see him all the time. He’s growing up in two houses, as I did. But recently, as I handed down my old iPhone 3G to him to use basically as an iPod touch. We both installed an app called Yak, so we could communicate with each other when we’re apart.”

  tags: social media

• 5 Reasons Why Your Online Presence Will Replace Your Resume in 10 years – Dan Schawbel – Personal Branding – Forbes

  “We’re seeing more and more recruiters use the web as a place to search for talent and conduct employment background searches. This trend is set to increase year over year and I’ve been predicting that an “online presence search” will become as common as a drug test since 2007.”

  tags: resume digitalfootprint

• Re-imagining Education at TEDxSFED | MindShift

  ““Why are you still teaching?” asked one educator of another, after an emotional discussion about the high incidents of dropouts.

  “Because I believe in public schools,” the other teacher replied, in tears. “These kids are never going to graduate if we don’t try. And it’s not fair to them.””

  tags: education

• Education Week’s Digital Directions: Educators Move Beyond the Hype Over Skype

  “For first-time users, there is perhaps an undeniable novelty to Skype videoconferencing software that allows students to meet—virtually—with someone anywhere in the world, in real time, and at no cost.”

  tags: skype collaboration videoconferencing education socialmedia

• Three Trends That Define the Future of Teaching and Learning | MindShift

  “In today’s dynamic classrooms, the teaching and learning process is becoming more nuanced, more seamless, and it flows back and forth from students to teachers. Here’s a look at current trends in teaching and learning, their implications, and changes to watch for.”

  tags: trends learning mindshift

• The Generation Project | Generate Ideas. Empower Education.

  As an educational philanthropy that allows donors to become actively involved in their giving, The Generation Project has three goals: (1) Generate ideas to benefit low-income K-12 students, (2) Generate new philanthropists by actively involving donors in the giving process, and (3) Empower the next Generation by harnessing the ingenuity of individuals to improve educational opportunities. By providing complete creative control over donations, we allow donors to share their passions, priorities and expertise with low-income students. The opportunity to actively engage in the creation of donations will draw new donors particularly young donors into educational philanthropy.

  tags: generation project

• Raised Digital » A Closer Look at the ARS e-Book Nook as a Learning Space

  “e-Books will likely be a part of future early childhood classrooms, and in light of the thin evidence base on their role in curriculum and instruction, we undertook a formative study to investigate what e-book pedagogy for early literacy might look like in the early childhood classroom [“

  tags: ebooks

• Technology and the Whole Child – Practical Theory

  “What technology can allow us to do is to realize the promise of many of our best ideas of progressive education. It can allow students to inquire, collaborate and connect in ways that allow us to realize the promise of Dewey’s dream. Moreover, it allows students and teachers to see themselves as real people, defined not just by the power dynamic of the classroom, but through the social networks that should and will and must cross.”

  tags: technology

  • When teachers and students can see themselves as more fully developed people, we can relate better in the classroom. When we know more about each other’s lives, it is that much harder to create that sense of “otherness” which can poison a classroom. We should not run from the opportunity to see each other for the whole people we are.

• Digital Writing, Digital Teaching – Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing » Blog Archive » Wikispaces announces free wikis for higher ed

  “Along with having created a user-friendly and robust product with their wikis, the team at Wikispaces has always been responsive to the needs of teachers, including their free K-12 wikis that now number over 400K. This is not meant to be a straight up product endorsement. Instead, I honestly believe that the team at Wikispaces is working to support K-12 educators in all the ways that they can not just by offering free space, but by offering the time (through email support) and resources to make their wikis pedagogically useful, too.”

  tags: wikispaces

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