Author: abendelow
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A look at what resulted from a writing assignment
in my English 11 classes. The “multi-structural narrative” assignment, while not directly tied into high-stakes testing, had the effect of causing these young adults to reflect on the complexity and themes of their lives; and it built community in a way the regular curriculum could not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lana8jjcIEY Insofar as it got them using multiple media…
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A McCluhan moment: TEDxNYED
from Wikipedia The medium and the message are converging in TEDxNYED today as talks are live-cast over the Internet and backchannel conversations flourish. For the most part, the message of this New York City-based Technology Entertainment and Design conference is that technology has made learning immediate, global and revolutionary. The wonderful correspondence is in the…
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What I’ll miss about my friendly fellow educators
(I hardly think of them as fellow students, though they are) is what they have taught me. The Educational Technology Cohort at CUChicago that I am leaving soon engaged in an ongoing democratic seminar, a kind of electronic Socratic method or symposium, with each of us asking and answering each other’s questions, and learning thereby. It’s…
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Calling Justicia: Keep Gradgrind and Bounderby away from schools
Discussing the loss of collective bargaining with a friend, I stated in haste that if organized public labor left the table, “all voice for justice” in public education would go missing. He called me on that too-broad usage, and I clarified in a response I post here, since it relates my current thinking on the value of…
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A propaganda film for the teacher's union and public workers in Wisconsin
is a great example of the way individuals can create highly effective pieces that would have not been possible, much less distributed widely, in any age but ours. Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Protest from Matt Wisniewski on Vimeo. Technology allowed these teachers and others to communicate so well and quickly that they could gather and…
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EDT 6050: an untraditional course reviewed
The name of the CUC class is “Using technology to assess and make data-driven decisions,” or something like that. It doesn’t matter because it’s the way the class happens that interests me. It is not at all a traditional course, although its subject matter is pretty standard. Yes, like the other courses in this Educational…
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EDT 6050: an untraditional course reviewed
The name of the CUC class is “Using technology to make data-driven decisions,” or something like that. It doesn’t matter because it’s the way the class happens that interests me. It is not at all a traditional course, although its subject matter is pretty standard. Yes, like the other courses in this Educational Technology masters…
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Dr. Tom McCann 10 rules for quality "Authentic" writing assessments
, Northern Illinois University Associate professor of English, Tom McCann, gave a wonderful “Administrator’s Academy” at Elmhurst College in March 2006 in which he outlined the basics of “authentic” writing assessments. (With the late Dr. Larry Johannessen and others, he has authored 2010’s The Dynamics of Writing Instruction: A Structured Process Approach for the Composition Teacher in…
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Google should really send me a Cr48 if they want me to be fair to them
when I suggest purchasing thousands of netbooks. I don’t want to believe the stories of the Google Internet device‘s disfunctional trackpad and memory limitations, or its jerky scrolling you can read about at sites like this, this, and this. After all, I’m a happy Google app user, and would expect the same functionality in an important piece of…
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When Facebook goes to war
or, What happens when social media like Twitter and Facebook begin mediating one of mankind’s oldest interactions: organized armed aggression? And what happens when the human urge to communicate interferes with the smooth operation of vital security missions? We know that neither our elusive terrorist enemies nor this battle has been decisive: who wins in…
The Wikiness 