After reading Kim’s blog about watching the K12 Online presentations with her colleagues, I was inspired. I want to talk about the ideas, roll them around in my head, hear what others have to say. How about it? After school? During lunch? I’ll bring snacks:)
Let’s begin here:
More than cool tools K12-Online
Have you heard this?
Deschool, Reboot, Real School
What do you think about this??
Tonight I watched/listened to two different online professional development events. From my kitchen table. One was a live audio interview, and the second, a video (not live, but I picked it up after I got home tonight). I couldn’t figure out how to get to the archives of the third event online. It’s probably a good thing, since my head is full of ideas, and I am trying to figure out how to find the time to use any or all of this with the kids.
Will Richardson shows us how the video works here. Ustream.tv allows the user to have his/her own tv show, live, with added effects. And, yeah, it’s hard to get our heads around watching, chatting, thinking, and blogging, all at the same time. But I can’t wait to try it.
Any FA teachers want to go to Philadelphia with me? This promises to be an enriching, exciting weekend.
And it is not
a technology conference. It is an education conference. It is a School
2.0 conference. It is, hopefully, an innovation conference where we
want to come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the
future of schools. We are looking for people to present ideas,
facilitate conversations, and share best practice.
1) Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members.
2) Our schools must be about co-creating — together with our students — the 21st Century Citizen
3) Technology must serve pedagogy, not the other way around.
4) Technology must enable students to research, create, communicate and collaborate
5) Learning can — and must — be networked.
The K-12 Online Conference is up and running. Check it out!
Here’s the keynote by David Warlick
I was first introduced to "flow" by my colleague Jennifer a few years (6?) back.
The concept was new to me, and I set out to learn more. But it wasn’t until last night, when I had a few hours to myself unexpectedly, that I realized that I experience it–when I am online reading about learning, technology, blogging, and teaching.
Losing all track of time, I sat at my kitchen table, dog leaning against my foot, fingers sometimes typing-sometimes mousing, my mind moving from one concept to another.
Flow.
The flow state is an optimal state of intrinsic motivation,
where the person is fully immersed in what he or she is doing. This is
a feeling everyone has at times, characterized by a feeling of great
freedom, enjoyment, fulfillment, and skill—and during which temporal
concerns (time, food, ego-self, etc.) are typically ignored.[citation needed, wikipedia]
One of the reasons? I love getting emails like this from colleagues:
I am glad I got all the blog and wiki
pages set up before school started. I would certainly not have been able
to do it now. My Algebra-II class is gradually getting the hang of what
is expected on their wiki page. The Math Analysis students are better at
it. The AP Calc students see a definite advantage in their tests and
quizzes by working on the wiki problems.
And this from Jennifer, referring to our first experience with Google Presentations:
The best aspect of the application is that students can work simultaneously, the update frequency is very quick. The are working
practically in real time. Also, I can track not only their "chat" but
also the revisions. Like a wikispace, I can see who is contributing
which ideas. This technology helps me to ensure that the workers are
rewarded and the slackers feel a bit more self-conscious, and hopefully
motivated to get to work.
Ok, back to the flow.
