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Re: Private: Business Book Summary #18: “Six Pixels of Separation” by Mitch Joel

educationinnovation — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:30:00 -0000

So what does it have to do with education. Mitch explains that we are all connected. To paraphrase, everyone is connected, connect your school to everyone. Education is moving through social media and networking sites to a point where we can learn from anyone who is a click away. The point for education and learning is not to just broadcast, but create community and build relationships where we can learn or share what we know. That educational community will exist anywhere and anytime, exempt from the constraints of geographic location. That community will provide value to it's participants. We are connecting through media channels, but we are learning.

We are one click away from each other. We are one click away from learning from each other. Imagine that. One click away from learning almost anything you can imagine through these digital channels. And we are becoming "experts" Tell a student that he or she is an "expert" in their community. They may never hear those words in the classroom, but they can hear in the social media community. That is empowering. The potential to take these networks off line and into touch space for real person interaction is powerful. "Community is the new currency" and we can spend that currency learning in community from each other.

Six Pixels of Separation from your teacher and your student.

Re: Making the Shift, Part 1: No More Objectives

educationinnovation — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:24:11 -0000

Where do I sign up? Technology, lesson design, funding, etc are all important issues facing education. But this may the most important issue that education in the 21st century faces. To "think", or to "know", that is the question?

Re: What's in Your 21st Century Toolbox?

educationinnovation — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:56:03 -0000

Your tool box is growing exponentially from year-to-year. Imagine next year! Great resources for us all.

Re: More time outside than inside…

educationinnovation — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:16:19 -0000

As someone who works in education all I can say is wow! This is what so many of our students need. Someone to talk to and someone who will take an genuine interest in them as kids.

I am amazed how much students will listen to someone from OUTSIDE of school. Sometimes they stop listening to their teachers, but a fresh face from outside is often a key to reaching a kid who is in need.

I call it "proximity." Having proximity, or being outside with them, is a great way to let kids know they matter. I pray God will continue to bless this ministry.

Re: Twitter really IS my other blog plus a microblogging tip | Broadcasting Brain

educationinnovation — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:46:05 -0000

Spot on. I tell people that Twitter is organic. It responds and changes to the environment and it it is good it will grow (or attract followers). If you are rude, then you get dumped.
Excellent analysis.

Re: Learning By Immersion

educationinnovation — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:47:01 -0000

It is often hard to imagine the value of something until you see it in use. Teachers may not understand just how important these tools are to students and how they use them to learn. Seeing these tools in action in classroom with a teacher who knows how to use the tools to help students LEARN, and not just have them waste time, should help give them the reason to want to use these tools. The next step is good professional development. And by good, I mean how to implement these tools into the teaching and lesson design, and not just giving them a website and wave goodbye.

Re: Learning By Immersion

educationinnovation — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:13:04 -0000

Great post and I agree. It is hard to think like a swimmer standing next to the pool. You have to dive. I use these tools because current and future students are growing up with these tools. It is hard to understand their thinking and their learning needs if you are not immersed in the technology they use. You've got to dive in.

Re: Twitter is the never-ending fair where a lot of people know your name | Broadcasting Brain

educationinnovation — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:56:44 -0000

The one thing I have most appreciated about Twitter is the ability to connect to people from so many different fields. My twitter network includes education technology people, teachers, marketing gurus, creativity and innovation types, and a random assortment of characters. This breadth, and the ease at which it is possible to obtain, is a wonderful characteristic of Twitter.

Re: Life Skills 101

educationinnovation — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:04:29 -0000

All it will take is to...
"facilitate shared problem-solving" or how about "cultivate shared content."
If the school would just "aggregate top-down differentiated lessons" and "harness school-based education", but also "enable shared processes" I am sure everything will be fine. But just for good measure they might want to "aggregate learning-intensive networks" and "seize outcome-based risk-takers." I am sure that will fix it!

Re: Good teaching is good teaching.

educationinnovation — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:00:51 -0000

Doug, the book Brain Rules by John Medina also debunks this theory. According to Medina we all have our own learning style because each brain is different. In essence, there are billions of learning styles or "intelligences."

Re: http://www.thinkchristian.net/index.php/2008/08/13/creativity-in-education/

educationinnovation — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:27:25 -0000

It is absolutely possible to have both because they serve different functions. Creativity is a skill to be developed and included in both the learning and the teaching. Objective tests serve to measure how the the learning is going or how well it went.

Think of the tests or assessments like medical checkups (during learning to adjust the teaching) or an autopsy (what did they lean, but teaching is over)

Creativity does need to be excluded because assessment is done to improve teaching and learning. Teaching and learning benefit from creativity. Creativity is a way to interact with the content or develop new ideas and perspective on the content. Creativity helps to internalize the content and provides and great way for a student to feel empowered and individualized.

Re: http://www.thinkchristian.net/index.php/2008/08/13/creativity-in-education/

educationinnovation — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:02:04 -0000

Chris, education is coming to the realization that creativity is a vital ability. The current research and trends suggest that we are preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist yet. In the flat, globalized, ultra-competitive, time compressed world our students are heading into creativity will become a key to success.

If knowledge, data, and information are available to everyone the world over, then one of the things that will set our students apart from those whom they will compete for jobs with is their creativity. So, education is beginning to understand that, all things being equal, companies would hire the most creative people, because they tend to deal well with problem solving, innovation, collaboration, etc.

The current political reality is that schools are measured on test scores, which prevents or hampers increasing the time and energy spent on developing creativity, as has been mentioned in some previous comments.

Re: Lunch n' Learn with 21st Century Learners (Not a Generational Thing)

educationinnovation — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:02:58 -0000

These are great. Thanks for sharing. BTW. I love the whole concept of your blog. It is a wonderful intersection of ideas.

Re: 15 Widespread Creativity Myths

educationinnovation — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:06:40 -0000

Glen, first excellent blog. Working in education, I see evidence of these myths all the time. When we want a new idea we have meetings. Nothing good comes from them, unless whining is a creative method. I have been pegged as being the "Idea guy" because I use creative thinking tools and techniques, which anyone could do. But for some reason they think they have no ideas. I have talked to so many teachers with great ideas, but no one ever asks them. The worst is not wanting to have a bad idea or not wanting to get silly with some strange ideas. It's too bad, because we spend all day with some of the most imaginative people you will ever meet...kids!