Charting the Course of Teaching and Learning in a Networked World
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We will be launching our upcoming web safety resource on KiwiCommons.com called Kiwi Reviews this July.
Kiwi Reviews was created to provide our readers with in-depth product, software and book reviews in the interest of internet safety, in addition to the editorials, late-breaking news and resources available on the site. It will be useful for tech users, parents, and educators.
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World’s first tuition-free online university opens-Article from FutureGov.net
By Kelly Ng | 8 June 2009
NEWS
The Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID), a UN department that aims to reduce poverty by promoting the use of information and communications technology (ICT), wants to make higher education available more accessible to people who cannot afford rising tuition fees, or have problems travelling to the nearest college.
To date, US$1 million has been invested in the la… Continue
Posted by Shai Reshef on June 22, 2009 at 3:21am
Chief Learning Officer- Power to the People
Posted by Shai Reshef on June 17, 2009 at 1:27am
The Gala Masquerade Ball awaits you!
On June 13th 1:00pm - 3:00pmSLT at… Continue Posted by Durff on June 13, 2009 at 11:31am
Future of Education Interview Series
Links: Google Calendar link (be sure to check the time zone) and sponsor recognition.
- July 8th, Wednesday: (5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT)
"Where is Math 2.0?" with Maria Droujkova - July 16th, Thursday: (5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT)
"Liberating Learning" with Terry Moe and John Chubb - TBD: John Seely Brown
- TBD: David Thornburg
- TBD: "School 2.0"
- TBD: "Homeschool 2.0"
- TBD: Self-Generated Student E-Portfolios
- TBD:The EU eTwinning Program
- TBD:Educational Town Hall Meetings
- Postponed: "Virtual School Models That Really Work" with Liz Pape and John Watson, hosted by Chris Walsh
Previous Events (Click Through For Full Recordings or See .MP3 Feed to the Left):
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Podcast iTunes Channel:
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- June 18th, 2009: Joyce Valenza and Friends: "Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don't Know Social Media?"
- June 17th, 2009: Panel Discussion on the Future of Books and Reading with Will Richardson, Bob Burg, Travis Alber, Aaron Miller, and Maggie Tsai
- June 17th, 2009: Frontline's Digital Nation Project with Producer/Director Rachel Dretzin
- June 4th, 2009: Maya Frost on the New Global Student
- June 3rd, 2009: Student Participation in Building the Learning Environment (Panel: Susie Boss, Connie Weber, Sylvia Martinez, Marcie Hull, Jane Krauss, and students)
- May 27th, 2009: Garry Putland: Web 2.0 and a Social Networking Platform for Australian Educators
- May 26th, 2009: Michael Wesch, A Cultural Anthropologist Looks at Digital Technology
- May 21st, 2009: Chris Dede - Emerging Interactive Media: What to Use, When, and How?
- May 19th, 2009: "The Future of Online Learning" with Susan Patrick (iNACOL) and Dr. Thomas Cook
- May 14th, 2009: Mark Treadwell, "School 2.0"
- May 7th, 2009: Michael Horn: Disrupting Class, Web 2.0, and More.
- May 6th, 2009: Don Tapscott Talks about Education, Grown Up Digital, and the Net Gen Education Project.
- April 21st, 2009: "2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning" with Chad Wick and Andrea Saveri.
- April 9th, 2009: "Student (and Teacher) Authentic Contributions -- The Long Tail in Education." Karen Greenwood Henke, Ruth Reynard, and Jim Beeghly and his daughter Sarah.
- March 31st, 2009: Erin Reilly from Project New Media Literacies (NML) - Helping Young People in the New Participatory Culture.
- March 25th, 2009 (8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific): What We Heard/Learned at the CoSN 2009 Conference
- March 27th, 2009 (9am Eastern / 6am Pacific): Presentation/panel discussion from NEBHE Conference in Boston on "Web 2.0: Vision and Possibilities for Outreach to Low-income and Minority Students."
- March 24th, 2009: Panel Discussion--Open Source in Education. Mike Huffman, Laura Taylor, Sheila Gatling, Jeff Elkner, & Kathryn Moyle.
- March 11th, 2009: Thomas Frey: "The Future of Education - Radical Shifts Are About To Begin"
- March 5th, 2009: Diana Kimball and Alex Leavitt, Harvard students and interns on the book Born Digital.
- March 2nd, 2009: Gary Stager: Thoughts About Education
- Feb. 26th, 2009: John Palfrey on his book Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. (In conjunction with the PBS - Classroom 2.0 Webinar Series.)
- Feb. 23th, 2009: Keith Krueger from CoSN.org: Learning to Change, Changing to Learn: Global Lessons
- Feb. 11th, 2009: Julie Evans from Project Tomorrow - "Top Ten Things We Learned from K-12 Students About Educational Technology in 2008"
- Feb. 4th, 2009: Carol Broos - How the Obama Administration Is Looking at School Reform.
- January 2009: Flat Classrooms Debates and Tom Friedman / Don Tapscott Interviews
Forum
"Liberating Learning: Technology, Politics, and the Future of American Education"
Date: Thursday, July 16th, 2009 Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here) Length: 1 hour Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/futureofed. The...
Started by Steve Hargadon 1 hour ago.
Where is Math 2.0? 3 Replies
Date: Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here) Duration: 1 hour Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/futureofed. ...
Started by Steve Hargadon. Last reply by Jason Spivey 1 day ago.
The Web's Most Dangerous Search Terms (Malware Prevention)
It's hard to manage thousands of student computers and monitor the online activities of students. Downloads, website visits, and installations can make your computers vulnerable to security breache...
Tagged: security, infection, virus, safety, internet
Started by Kiwi Commons 1 day ago.
Should ipods in schools be banned? 4 Replies
First some schools started to ban cell phones after discovering students could cheat by text messaging answers to each other. Now, schools are banning digital media players, realizing they too are...
Tagged: cheating, ban, technology, ipod
Started by Kiwi Commons. Last reply by Dale Wade Jul 3.
New collaborative homework help site called Dweeber
Hi my name is Nick, I am passionate about using technology to help students. I am a partner with a team who developed Dweeber- a new collaborative learning site. We recently launched our beta site ...
Tagged: learning, based, Project, Homework, Collaboration
Started by Nick Hutchings Jul 1.
We welcome all input for our New Internet Safety Reviews Resource
Hey everyone! We will be launching our upcoming web safety resource on KiwiCommons.com called Kiwi Reviews this JULY. Kiwi Reviews was created to provide our readers with in-depth product, softwa...
Tagged: reviews, technology, online, safety, internet
Started by Kiwi Commons Jun 27.
Supreme Court Decision
If you strip search a 13-year old girl, that's wrong. But, that's a ruling on individual rights, not education. What did the Court decide about education? Go to my blog at http://texasteachertalk.b...
Started by Dale Wade Jun 26.
Welcome! 114 Replies
Please introduce yourself and let us know a little about you!
Started by Steve Hargadon. Last reply by Dale Wade Jun 24.
PEACE 1 Reply
Dear Colleagues, How can we all as educators use education to support peace and international understanding? Sami
Started by Sami Abdul-Aziz Mohammed. Last reply by MARTIN SEBULIBA Jun 23.
How To Be aCreative Teacher please let us discuss this topic
the most important question that we must ask our selves as teachers is : how to be creative teachers ? there are 4 kinds of teachers : 1- abad teacher tells 2- an average teacher explains 3- agood ...
Started by Isam AbdulAzeez Mohammed Jun 21.
A TEACHER’S VOICE AT SPACC
Hallo there, SPACC stands for Springs Alive Childen’s Centre.The Centre accomodates all sorts of children i.e. those with parents, orphans, disabled, deafs, dumb, some who can afford to pay and tho...
Started by MARTIN SEBULIBA Jun 20.
Interview Transcriptions
It would sure be nice if the interviews here were transcribed so they would be fully search-able. Has this already been done and I'm missing it?
Started by Darren Draper Jun 20.
Does Global Collaboration facilitate a student in changing their worldview or perspective?
I have been enamored with the possibilities in the classroom using Global Collaboration for the past 18 months when I first discovered this great 2.0 world so much so that I began a Master's progra...
Tagged: Conference, Classroom, Doha, Qatar, perspective
Started by Heather Davis Jun 20.
Panel Discussion: "Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don't Know Social Media?" 1 Reply
RECORDINGS: Elluminate Full Recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-06-18. Video: http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/futureoflibrarians http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/futureoflibrarian...
Started by Steve Hargadon. Last reply by Kathy Lawrence Jun 19.
21st century Strategies for ELL classrooms
We have students from different countries in our school, and we would like to know if you have any good strategies or url links for achieving academic success using web 2.0 tools. I would also like...
Tagged: EFL, ESOL, parental, involvement, ELL
Started by Poornima Jun 17.
Games are the new School 1 Reply
"Games development is slowly becoming a central and one of the largest global industries. Right after our basic human needs, where satisfaction and esteem start, and self-actualization follows, rig...
Tagged: learning, teaching, games, education
Started by Or-Tal Kiriati. Last reply by Or-Tal Kiriati Jun 16.
Panel Discussion on The Future of Books and Reading
RECORDINGS: Full Elluminate Recording: https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2009-06-17. Video: http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/futureofbooks.mp4 http://audio.edtechlive.com/foe/futureofbooks.mp3...
Started by Steve Hargadon Jun 15.
Online Social Networking: Is it becoming a disease? 3 Replies
Seems like kids these days are glued to their cell phones, and if they're not, they're preoccupied with online social networks. There is no actual medical diagnosis of "social network addiction", b...
Tagged: Facebook, Second, Life, life, addiction
Started by Kiwi Commons. Last reply by Kiwi Commons Jun 15.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR SUPPORT TO RAISE AWARENESS TO THE HORRENDOUS CONDITIONS OF BATTERY HENS 1 Reply
Started by Mickey Flynn. Last reply by Vito Brondolo Jun 15.
Teacher evaluation 8 Replies
In Romania there is an interesting discussion regarding the evaluation of teachers’activity. I would very much appreciate if some of you can share with us the experience in your countries. Maybe th...
Started by Sebastian Alexandru. Last reply by MARTIN SEBULIBA Jun 12.
KnowledgeWorks Foundation 2020 Forecast:
Listen to Chad Wick and Andrea Saveri discuss the new 2020 Forecast from KnowledgeWorks Foundation in a special Future of Education interview called "Creating the Future of Learning." It is a fascinating exploration of key forces of change that will shape the landscape of learning over the next decade, and how we are moving toward a culture of creation and innovation. There is also an interactive website for the Forecast, and an extended 2-hour "drill down" on the Forecast here.About
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