Coffee with David Warlick

Mar 23

I had the privilege of spending some time today with David Warlick. (We didn’t actually have coffee, we just sat on the floor and talked) David as most of you know is passionate about helping teachers understand the changing world and telling the new story of learning. As David stated to me, it’s really old stories. We had a great conversation ranging...

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Harnessing the New Shape of Information…David Warlick

Mar 23

Harnessing  the New Shape of Information…David Warlick

These are my notes from David Warlick’s session. The fact that this session is very full tells me people are hungry for ideas about the Read/Write Web. David’s presentation is all about the way these new tools are changing information. As a preliminary, David explained how his material is all online and in addition, has a wiki available for global editing...

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What Students Will Need to Know and be able to Do…Willard Daggett

Mar 23

What Students Will Need to Know and be able to Do…Willard Daggett

Willard Dagget makes a number of excellent points. He says we need to spend more time helping parents and the public understanding why we need to change. The data he uses is a combination of his own research team and a number of references from Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat. Globalization refers to the world wide competition that now exists in most...

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Shopping is like your newsreader

Mar 22

Will posted about being an RSS fraud. Yesterday, in three straight presentations about the wonders and potential of RSS to rock our eduworlds, I kept getting more and more embarrased at the fact that when I showed my Bloglines account, which has ballooned up to 197 feeds, it was obvious that while I might be subscribed, I’m not keeping up with my reading. In...

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Early Impressions of FETC 2006

Mar 22

Early Impressions of FETC 2006

I just wanted to make a few comments on my first impressions of FETC. I had a quick walk through the exhibits. Obviously the sheer volume of vendors provides quite an experience. Yet so many of them focused on the administration of education. I suppose that’s where much of the big dollars is to be made. Certainly coming from a school division of 7,000...

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