Author: abendelow
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"Fluid Learning" has not dampened my spirits
But it frightens and disturbs teachers and administrators all over. The locus of control has shifted in our field of endeavor, and woe unto the educator who ignores or minimizes the learning potential of ubiquitous computer-based connectivity. This article by Mark Pesce is buzzing about the web this weekend, and while it’s sometimes a little…
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Good tech is invisible, pt. 2
i like the way Karl Frisch puts it in his new post. When it’s working right, web 2.0 in schools is not at all about “technology.” When teachers and students are effectively using free and easy “cloud-based” tools, it is all about good teaching and learning: no one notices or thinks much about the programs…
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How does digital community affect kids' ethics?
Howard Gardner of multiple intelligences fame is studying it in the “GoodPlay Project” to find out. While the report is not fully out, its implications are fascinating. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2235438&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1Howard Gardner, Harvard Graduate School of Education from Education Week on Vimeo Especially interesting to me were a few findings: *most of our studentsdownload music illegally without compunction.…
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The "networked" student is among us
And how many educators are aware of, much less accommodating his learning? Fortunately, I am working under supervisors and administrators that see what is going on, and are taking steps in the direction of the future.
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a mashed up medium but a cogent message…
…and so a person doesn’t notice the medium. Aren’t those the best sort of communications media, the ones you don’t even notice? Technology…it's all around us…http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=technologyits-all-around-us-1200694491932122-3&stripped_title=technologyits-all-around-us View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: web2.0 digital) I think this show might work well with a general education audience–especially one using Vista (though Mac gets its…
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Ideas come first, then the media and the tools
Digital storytelling–like any kind of storytelling–requires a narrative first, an idea. As this engaging video points out, the media and tools are relatively unimportant. D’uh. You’ve got to have the something to communicate before you can think about its packaging. It’s the same thing with learning: you need a question first. Everything–the student’s growing skill…
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Were it not for web 2.0 technologies, would Barack have won?
This post by the respected author of We are smarter than me, says “no way.”More evidence for the affirmative side in the debate over resolved: that educators should begin harnessing the communicative and learning power of these tools for/with our students.
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"…there is no surer way to bring an end to schooling…
…than for it to have no end” –Neil Postman What Postman is saying, i think, is that without an agreed-on end (transcendent purpose) for education, education ends. That if you remove a satisfying conclusion to the narrative of people’s endeavors, they will peter out and eventually cease achieving, end of story. I think i would…
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another little piece of my philosophy
on teaching, or “pedagogy.” You can tag this “on knowledge construction” (accrual), which I maintain begins and then begins again (persists) in the simple human act of inquiry. My back up here comes from Paulo Freire: Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry humans pursue in the world,…
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Catch a falling knife… if you dare
The economy is tumbling, with no end in sight, and I’ve been looking for answers that the non-economist like me can understand. Why has this system failed us? One good answer comes in Michael Lewis’ “The End,” published in the December Conde-Nast Portfolio. Twenty years ago, things could have changed for the better, he writes.…
The Wikiness 