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  • Rethinking School 101: The Changing Human Experience

    I recently made a new acquaintance (via Twitter), Vanessa Miemis (Blog, Twitter), who is “pursuing a Masters in Media Studies at the New School in New York City, exploring the intersection between technology, culture, and communication. She is a member of the Space Collective community, and has contributed guest posts [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2009, 1:27pm EST
    by Greg

  • Edublog Awards, A First Time Experience

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    This is the first time I have involved myself in this set of awards. This is also the first time I actually felt qualified to do so. So, here are my Edublog Awards (The Edublog Awards Homepage) nomination suggestions: Best individual blog: Will Richardson: Webblogg-ed (Twitter) Best individual tweeter: Steven W. Anderson [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 4:51pm EST
    by Greg

  • Dan Brown: The “Achilles Heel” of Education Reform

    Dan Brown, (Blog, Twitter) teacher and author of “The Great Expectations School,” effectively took on the wrong-headed notion that the best way to improve education in the United States is to reduce it to a single numerical value, then apply that value to compartmentalize students and reward or punish teachers: Last [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 1:23pm EST
    by Greg

  • The Landscape of Educational Culture

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    Artwork: (c) Hugh MacLeod (Twitter, Blog) I just received an Education Week email update and the second article listed was this one written by Betty J. Sternberg. She begins the article: Consider this description of the work environment of California-based Meebo, one of the Web’s fastest-growing messaging companies, and then ask yourself [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:23pm EST
    by Greg

  • The Information Age Is Dead!

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    I came across the following statement at the AASLS Smackdown wiki this morning: According to The Associated Colleges of the South, “using critical thinking skills and appropriate technologies, information fluency integrates the abilities to: collect the information necessary to consider a problem or issue employ critical thinking skills in the evaluation and analysis [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:47pm EST
    by Greg

  • It is the test! Or is it . . .

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    I rarely find myself disagreeing with an idea that Dr. Scott McLeod places on the table, but this one raised my hackles a bit. I have always positioned myself as an avid anti-standardized testing professional. However, when I finished reading his piece I thought I would take a breath, step [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2009, 12:22pm EDT
    by akamrt

  • I can see for miles and miles . . .

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    I was reading my Google Reader feeds yesterday and came across one by Rodd Lucier at The Clever Sheep. His thought highlighted a constant refrain that seems to permeate education, “When have we arrived?” Rodd’s assessment about the effects of the change factor in education is spot-on. The situation is more [...]
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    Posted: May 13, 2009, 1:48pm EDT
    by akamrt

  • Returning

    I am days away from completing a two semester program that will take me in a new career direction. That is both happy and sad. I love learning and being able to keep intellectually challenged, I will miss  that. However, I love new challenges and looking at the unknown horizion, [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 1:28pm EDT
    by akamrt

  • The pupil becoming the teacher

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    One of my former eighth grade students is in her junior year and studying education . . . she contacted me via Facebook and asked for my responses to a series of questions in an area I have always had an interest in. I thought it would be something to [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2008, 7:55pm EST
    by akamrt

  • Kaplan to run US schools!

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    Dateline: some time in the near future, in a newspaper of your choice: Kaplan to take over the educational system in the United States in an effort to make sure test scores are the best in the world! I have been on a hiatus of sorts as I go back to [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2008, 1:48pm EDT
    by akamrt

  • What if your school blew up?: The Little Becky approach to school reform

    One of the most debilitating aspects of today’s educational environment is the fear of failure. No, I am not talking about students, I am talking about teachers and administrators. There is a constant fear of losing jobs, funding, the chance to do all they hoped they would by working the [...]
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    Posted: May 23, 2008, 12:02pm EDT
    by akamrt

  • The 6 Degrees of Your Network

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    There are scouts, those who go ahead and explore the landscape and discover the possibilities. They are followed by early settlers who arrive immediately after and discover uses of the landscape and begin to build a new settlement. Following them are those who’ve heard the tales of a new world [...]
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    Posted: May 20, 2008, 1:48pm EDT
    by akamrt

  • The EdTech Lament

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    Sitting at Beans ‘n Cream having my morning tea and a tweet came through the stream . . . @mrplough07 linked to a new blog entry decrying his experience in a class he is taking as part of his EdTech masters work. He opened with his lament: Something has been really [...]
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    Posted: April 28, 2008, 11:38am EDT
    by akamrt

  • My Message From The Future

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    I was having my morning tea, reading my feeds, and following my Twitter stream when @markwagner linked to a blog post he wrote in ‘07 and asked what message we would send from the future to the principals of today . . . paused a moment and decided to give [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2008, 12:31pm EDT
    by akamrt

  • Freshman Year 2.0: Introduction

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    I have been re-reading the book Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins and it is as eye-opening the second time through as it was the first. I am struck by a concept that seems to keep coming back to forefront of my thoughts and shaping my ideas about education . . [...]
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    Posted: March 11, 2008, 11:28am EDT
    by akamrt

  • Redefining School in the Age of Web 2.0: Update

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    Well, it’s been a few days since I began this process of explaining an idea of how a higher ed learning environment might look if it allowed itself to be influenced by the latest in technological hardware and facilitatory web tools (Web 2.0). I have been somewhat stuck, not that [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2008, 10:44am EST
    by akamrt

  • Redefining School in the age of Web 2.0

    “The situated nature of learning, remembering, and understanding is a central fact. It may appear obvious that human minds develop in social situations, and that they use the tools and representational media that culture provides to support, extend, and reorganize mental functioning. But cognitive theories of knowledge representation and educational [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2008, 11:05am EST
    by akamrt

  • Web 2.0 tools as educational avenues

    The points in this slide show are a good starting point for a discussion about a new form of education – a rethink exercise about how we design new educational environments. Any serious learning environment architect (teacher) needs to address these ideas as they move their practice from the status [...]
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    Posted: December 29, 2007, 10:32am EST
    by akamrt

  • Why Tech Doesnt Change Education

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    In a great editorial in the July/August issue of Edutopia, James Daly brings home a wonderfully salient point, “The new reality is that the public-education system is no longer the only, or the paramount, place where we go to learn.” Schools have existed for decades in a sort of oblivion [...]
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    Posted: December 20, 2007, 11:30am EST
    by akamrt

  • Open access and Web 2.0 tools

    I recently read an interesting review (at EducationPR) of the book, The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship by John Willinsky. The book discusses the idea of “open access” and the effect it will have on academia. In his review, Paul Baker points out: “Willinsky’s case [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2007, 11:53am EST
    by akamrt

  • Wisconsin Virtual Academy Revisited

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    A week ago I posted about a decision in the District 2 Court of Appeals in Wisconsin that overturned an earlier decision by the courts in favor of the Wisconsin Virtual Academy. Since that post I have done more digging and the decision appears even more problematic as a result. An [...]
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    Posted: December 14, 2007, 12:19pm EST
    by akamrt

  • Web 2.0 in the classroom

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    Exciting interview with Lucy Gray from U of Chicago discussing Web 2.0 applications in the classroom. She only touches the tip of the iceberg but you can catch up with many of the ideas she has on her blog. Keep up the evangelism Lucy! Powered by ScribeFire and Beans ‘n Cream. [...] [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2007, 1:35am EST
    by akamrt

  • Are you properly licensed to teach your child?

    If you are a parent who believes in teaching your children anything - you better have a license - or so it would seem in light of a decision by the District 2 Court of Appeals in Wisconsin this week. Articles in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune and The Capital [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2007, 11:53am EST
    by akamrt

  • Memory chips, not diplomas!

    Standardized testing may very well have reached its Orwellian pinnacle. An article in the November 8 issue of the Wisconsin State Journal discusses the University of Wisconsin Systems move to begin testing groups of Freshman and Seniors in order to determine their “skills” growth during their college days. The reporter [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2007, 1:15pm EST
    by akamrt

  • Where the Web is going . . .

    Worth the listen! The WWW’s innovator has a few words about where things are going . . . be sure to listen to Scoble’s follow-up interview afterwards . . . now my particular soap box, where do things go from an educational standpoint? The web, after all, is inherently the [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2007, 6:27pm EST
    by akamrt

  • No more bent students . . .

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    My son is a freshman in high school this year, and though I have seen it during my 23 years of teaching it hits home even more since he is my son: he is carrying around 50 pounds of stabilized wood pulp in his backpack! Textbooks. Don’t get me wrong, [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2007, 11:37am EST
    by akamrt
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