Search Results

BLC08: Marc Prensky The Death of the Classroom and the Rebirth of Learning in the 21st Century: How Technology Changes the Meaning of Teaching

How would I explain Marc Prensky's method of presenting a workshop? Two words (and a conjunction): Shock and Awe - and I wouldn't say this is nece...

Social Networking Keynote

Download the Social Networking Keynote Presentation in PDF format: [Download file "SocialNetworking&Education.pdf"]

Teaching and Learning

For the last three days, Kristin Trueblood, Betty Ann Fish and I (Erik) have been attending (and BA presenting) at the Building Learning Communitie...

BLC 08 Overview

For the last three days, Kristin Trueblood, Betty Ann Fish and I have been attending (and BA presenting) at the Building Learning Communities ...

BLC 08 Kids and Social Spaces

More key take-aways from BLC08 on the social networks of children and teenagers ---For young people the social network is intuitive.  ...

BLC 08 Change

Some thoughts about change from different keynotes at BLC 08.  We heard Ewan McIntosh, John Davitt, Mark Prensky, Alan November, Pedro Noguera. ...

BLC 08 Technology and Learning

Here's another them that I pulled out of my notes from BLC 08 - what's the relationship between learning and technology?  ---It’s ...

BLC08: Ewan McIntosh - Not All Native Wit: From Creativity to Ingenuity

Ewan is a forward-thinking technology advisor in the UK. He started having his students interact using blogs and wikis back in 2003 and has been en...

BLC08: Carla Zembal-Saul [R]evolution in Teacher Education

[R]evolution in Teacher Education - Carla Zembal-Saul, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Science Education Kahn Professor, STEM Education, Penn State ...

NECC 2008: 1:1 Laptop Programs

1:1 Laptops and Seamless Integration: Peek into the Frontier Howard Levin, The Urban School of San Francisco ; On Twitter: howlevin Howard has ...

NECC 2008: Ian Jukes

This guy is a RIOT! Loved his presentation. I found it very difficult to blog during the presentation because I wanted to focus completely on the ...

NECC: The Collective Intelligence of Groups

Notes from Opening Keynote Speaker, New Yorker staffer James Surowiecki on the collective intelligence of groups - some highlights from a fellow bl...

Breaking News

Apple launched its k-12 iTunes U last night and all I got was a t-shirt! Turns out that Apple partnered with the State Educational Technology Dire...

NECC: Online Learning Panel

Virtual Opportunities: Interactive Strategies for Online Instruction Katherine Hayden, ISTE Consultant/CSU–San M...

NECC: Making Sense of It All

As Tuesday's sessions come to a close, I will attempt to capture what I can of this conference for everyone back home. They say everything is bigge...

WikiTexts

Enjoyed a recent post on the Committed Sardine...it talked about several topics that seem to be a part of many conversations in our school; diff...

"Will" We See This Transformation @ Springside?

I have always made Will Richardson one of my "often" reads and have enjoyed working with him at different conferences over the years.  Needless ...

ReThink. Reimagine. Redefine. A Tour of 21st-Century Learning Conference

On 4.22, Springside sent a small team to the Apple sponsored ReThink. Reimagine. Redefine. A Tour of 21st-Century Learning Conference. While th...

The End of Literacy? Don't Stop Reading.

Howard Gardner teaches cognitive psychology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is directing a study of the ethical dimensions of th...

Mind Set by John Naisbitt

Mind Set on Amazon.com Below are my blink reactions and main take-a-ways from Naisbitt's book.  Anyone read it previously & have other though...