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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21st century questions
February 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Future students, Web 2.0, Will Richardson
I’ve been trying to assimilate some themes in what Will Richardson talked about on Tuesday and things I heard at the TCEA conference as well. Some reflections in no certain order– How our students learn is changing. How we learn is also changing. (In a presentation at TCEA, Ysleta ISD called it “PJ PD”—Pajama Professional [...]
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Journalism, the web, and Molly
February 1st, 2007 · 4 Comments · Future students, Journalism
I was fortunate enough to hear Molly Ivins speak at the University of Texas in November, when she won the Mary Alice Davis Distinguished Lecturer award. Her concern that night was the future of journalism; specifically, the future of newspapers. I have thought of her insights often the last few months. She was aware [...]
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Drivers versus passengers
January 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Future students, Web 2.0
We just got my son a new/used car today–a VW Beetle. While we were waiting to pick up the car, a sign in the dealership caught my eye. “On the road of life, there are passengers and there are drivers. Drivers wanted.” It struck me that this is a perfect analogy for web 2.0 tools. [...]
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Connecting the dots (pt two)
January 17th, 2007 · No Comments · Future students, Research
Home for yet another ice day, so I am catching up on my reading! Another item in the Columbia Journalism review article I mentioned yesterday struck me as interesting for research. As one effort to change the Times-Herald paper, “When (editor)Levine took over, his paper began a ‘sourcing project,’ designed to force reporters to [...]
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21st century skills in the workplace?
January 14th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Future students, Uncategorized
Text messaging while in class, listening to an iPod, and skimming through Google links, the behaviors our students are demonstrating in the classroom are the ones they are also carrying into the workplace. This post on Assorted Stuff drew my attention to the Pew Internet study, Digital Natives Invade the Workplace, (among other studies on Pew’s site). The study [...]
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What’s in for the New Year?
January 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Future students, Uncategorized
To ring in the New Year in a very traditional way, here’s a look at last year and predictions for this year. Google Zeitgeist keeps track of what we have been searching for the last year. (I’m amazed at how many of the search terms I have never heard of, by the way, so don’t feel [...]
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Where are we heading?
December 15th, 2006 · No Comments · Future students
This article in Time on graduates of the future is such important reading I am posting it again! (free online if you watch an ad…) It’s about changing the education conversation away from the basics to a broader conversation and it identifies some strategies our students will need. Very interesting in terms of our schoolwide discussions–I’d [...]
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Searching, info literacy and commercialism
December 13th, 2006 · No Comments · Future students
While watching tv tonight, I saw a commercial for gifts.com, which allows you to enter a profile of the person you are shopping for, and then the site selects and recommends gifts you can purchase and the online stores that sell the gifts. A great idea–a customizable, personal shopper online. All of which made me [...]
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Book recommendation
November 2nd, 2006 · No Comments · Future students
Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink is one of those books that I want to share with everyone! HIs premise is that due to outsourcing and our material abundance that students of the 21st century will need different skills, like creativity, design, play, empathy, etc. and that the world looks to the U.S. for that “outside of the [...]
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