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Today's podcast, recorded yesterday, is a short recording about Myra and her work with our district library clerks as they learn more about he read/write web. Enjoy.
Links
Myra's course
The "23 Things " project - which is formally called Learning 2.0
An article about our school district's Tech Fair (which I don't mention in the podcast, really, but I'm pretty excited about)
I've been popping into every little bit of Educon that I have been able to get to. I'm looking forward to digging through the archive when I have some dedicated time. The conference is only half over - I suspect you might be interested in joining in tomorrow.
Tonight's short offering is a thought or two about an idea I had today. Aggregating content is nothing new - but makes sense when you need a "new" project. We could all use a few more connections to the good work we're up to. Would love to hear your thoughts, or anything you're up to in this vein. Enjoy.
Today's podcast is a reflection on some experimentation I did today with Brian C. Smith as we're both learning how to collaborate via the XO. In short, we were impressed. Enjoy.
Links
Chris Craft's post
Xochat.org
Tom Hoffman's hardware/software post
The conversation(s), I mean. You know, about how teachers need to be engaged, too, in order for their passion to come through. Gardner Campbell posted this quote by Jerome Bruner that was a good reminder of the fact that, while the tools and the opportunities to connect and talk are new, not so many of the ideas about school and learning and teaching that some folks, myself included, are (re)discovering:
2. Jerome Bruner, from the Preface to the 1977 revised edition of The Process of Education:
Let me turn finally to the last of the things that have kept me brooding about this book–the production of a curriculum. Whoever has undertaken such an enterprise will probably have learned many things. But with luck, he will also have learned one big thing. A curriculum is more for teachers than it is for pupils. If it cannot change, move, perturb, inform teachers, it will have no effect on those whom they teach. It must be first and foremost a curriculum for teachers. If it has any effect on pupils, it will have it by virtue of having had an effect on teachers. The doctrine that a well-wrought curriculum is a way of “teacher-proofing” a body of knowledge in order to get it to the student uncontaminated is nonsense.
Amen. A double amen to the conclusion of his post (you should really read the rest):
I yearn for that effective surprise and for the cognitive economy of powerful symbols, for the structures and the illuminating honesty, the theme parks and the sandboxes, to make of courses of study episodes of buildable wonder.
Now, he's a university professor talking about university courses. But I want my daughters' kindergartens to be "episodes of buildable wonder." Don't you?
Today's podcast is a semi-rambling review of the XO. I also manage to mention Learning 2.0 (have you registered yet? We'd love to have you.) and a couple other little things. Enjoy and let me know - what are you doing with your XO?
Links I mentioned
The OLPC Wiki
XoChat.org
Educon
Learning 2.0
I didn't mention this really useful walkthrough of the XO user interface. But I should have.
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