Today we visited two very different schools and learned an incredible amount of things from both of them. Poway is a high school of 3,000 in the surburbs, somewhat similar to the Westlake area, outside of San Diego. We talked to them about their senior project which is a culminating experience to the senior year, [...]
Entries from February 28th, 2007
The view from L.A.
February 28th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Blogroll, Site visits
Yesterday we visited Harvard Westlake and attended a few classes as well. Their campus is unbelievably beautiful, situated on top of a hill overlooking the city. Their schedule is somewhat similar to ours, but they attend classes only four days. One of the most striking things there was a beautiful art gallery, and they also [...]
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Back on the plane…
February 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Site visits
A few things that stood out from our visits yesterday (this is quick because we have to get to the airport early this morning!)– –Gunn has “departmental” secretaries–a group of teachers over several departments share an assistant who is stationed at a location where students or teachers can access their help. They also have an [...]
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Home of high tech
February 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Site visits
We’ve made it to San Jose, the home of innovation, (after flying with a few Academy award attendees to L.A. yesterday). We’re off to visit the first two high schools on our trip this morning, Palo Alto and Gunn, and then we hope to visit Stanford’s campus this afternoon. It’s chilly and rainy in San [...]
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Learning adventures
February 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Tomorrow is the day–a group of us from the district are setting out for California to visit six high schools (Palo Alto, Gunn, Harvard-Westlake, Poway, High Tech High, and Mt. Carmel) over three and a half days, and also will be meeting with a staff member from Escondido Charter School for dinner. In addition, I’ll be visiting two newly [...]
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Offshoring student assignments
February 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Student projects
This international project from Clarence Fisher at the blog Remote Access is fascinating. Students from four countries are participating in what he calls an “international assembly line” on a research question. Students in schools in Kuala Lumpur and Columbia are providing one part of the project and then students in Canada and the United States [...]
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Search with a twist
February 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I’ve noticed more students using Cha-Cha lately, which is a search engine with a twist. You can search yourself, or search “with a guide.” When you search with a guide, a chat window comes up and the guide immediately starts completing the search. As they find results they post them on the screen, and you [...]
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Friday chipotle blogging
February 23rd, 2007 · 13 Comments · Uncategorized
Welcome to our second “Friday blogging” day on our campus, where we ask our staff or outside contributers to rush on down and spend a few minutes reading and commenting! Feel free to join in…. Note: (If you are visiting the blog from elsewhere, the Chipotle blogging is a campus joke, by the way, [...]
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Saying “yes”
February 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Future students, Teacher Learner, Will Richardson
Will Richardson talked about friction points caused by new technologies and the rapid pace of change. When I heard Lawrence Lessig talk at U.T. about copyright, he was talking about how innovators created this new system of copyright because the law wasn’t changing fast enough to meet the web 2.0 environment. As I sat there [...]
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Times they are a’changin
February 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Future students
Janice Friesen (who I met online but lives here in Austin) has some interesting observations on her blog Texas Malahini about how our students think differently than previous generations. She observes that: “My mother’s generation thinks that it is OK not to know something and that there is a lot that is unknowable. They do not value asking questions. [...]
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