Teachers Are Learners, Too

How is Web 2.0 different from Web 1.0? This video found on Classroom 2.0 will shed some light. (Note:  You will not be able to view this video at school–video site blocked.)

Check out this interesting image comparing collaboration using Wiki contrasted with collaboration using e-mail.  Wiki, anyone?

The model is courtesy of Chris Rasmussen at US National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

Reading Julie Lindsay’s 2020 Vision… motivates and energizes me to continue what I am doing to prepare students to be successful in the learning/earning world that will likely face them.

I urge you to visit and read Julie’s blog.  Of course, your comments are welcomed.

Please visit this blog–Are You Sick Of High Paid Teachers.  I will be interested to read your comments about the thoughts you experienced as you read the blog and comments.

When is a dead horse really dead?

If you are a middle school social studies teacher, check this out.  What is your response?

Here’s One Way!  Is it THE way?

Schools like this?  How cool would that be?

Have you ever read a book (about education) that “says” what you wish you would/could have said half as well?  Here it is–ONLY CONNECT, by Dr. Rudy Crew!  If you are responsible for learning–we all are, both ours and others’–you must read Dr. Crew’s practical, effective presentation of “The Way To Save Our Schools.”

Although those who visit this blog site can count on reading numerous “look what I found” entries I have gleaned from this book, we all should buy a copy and connect with Dr. Crew’s practical provisions about teaching and learning for ourselves.

The first nugget, quoted from Only Connect:  “The four qualities of a mature and conscious contributor to society are

1. Personal Integrity
2. Workplace Literacy
3. Civic Awareness
4. Academic Proficiency”

“When we talk about education right now, we still concentrate on the last one, the academics, just as we did at Meadowbrook almost forty years ago, and consider the other three as somehow outside of the discussion.  THAT is our central educational mistake.”

There’s more, but you really need to read it yourself.  After you have begun to read the book, I look forward to your providing comments to the blogs related to Dr. Crews’s writing. 

I recently “found” this slide-show prepared and distributed by Victoria Davis on her “Cool Cat Teacher Blog”.   All teachers should watch and re-watch!

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