NWP Teachers Celebrating Their Digital Lives on Digital Learning Day 2012
This conversation about #NWP teachers in the National Digital Learning Day continues today (Thursday) 4:00 PM Pacific / 7:00 PM Eastern at NWP Radio - on Blog Talk Radio -http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nwp_radio/2012/01/13/advocating-for-your-writing-project-site-looking-ahead
What are your plans for National Digital Learning Day #DLDay on February 1, 2012? http://digitalis.nwp.org/site-blog/what-are-your-plans-national-digital-lea/3369 Enjoy this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, recorded a week before the big day. +Paul Oh helped us invite this amazing list of guests. They are listed below, along with one thing we’ve asked them in our conversation about Digital Learning Day. +Natalie Bernasconi, Central California Writing Project and middle school teacher; presenting the Digital ID wiki http://digital-id.wikispaces.com/Welcome as part of California Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento on Feb. 1 +Gail Desler, Area 3 Writing Project and Instructional Technologist in Elk Grove, California; also presenting the Digital ID wiki as part of Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento +Andrea Zellner, Red Cedar Writing Project, doc student at Michigan State University, who is working with Michigan State’s MA in Ed Tech program to “try something new” and document; artifacts from and about the experiences will be found here: http://dlday2012.tumblr.com/ +Leigh Wolf, Program Director for the MA in Ed Tech Program, is coordinating efforts with Andrea; here’s a link to a post at Leigh’s bloghttp://www.leighgraveswolf.com about Digital Learning Day. +Tom Fox, Northern California Writing Project & National Writing Project, English Professor at Chico State University, will be presenting digital compositions created by his students at the Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento +Jack Zangerle, Hudson Valley Writing Project, 8th Grade ELA teacher in Dover, NY, doing things for Digital Learning Day in his classroom +Matt Dunleavy, former Tech Liaison of the Tidewater Writing Project in Virginia, and a professor at Radford University, currently working with Chris Dede from Harvard on an Augmented Reality project called EcoMobile, which will be presented in D.C. on Feb. 1 as part of Digital Learning Day activities there. What is Digital Learning Day? http://www.digitallearningday.org
What are your plans for National Digital Learning Day #DLDay on February 1, 2012? http://digitalis.nwp.org/site-blog/what-are-your-plans-national-digital-lea/3369 Enjoy this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, recorded a week before the big day. +Paul Oh helped us invite this amazing list of guests. They are listed below, along with one thing we’ve asked them in our conversation about Digital Learning Day. +Natalie Bernasconi, Central California Writing Project and middle school teacher; presenting the Digital ID wiki http://digital-id.wikispaces.com/Welcome as part of California Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento on Feb. 1 +Gail Desler, Area 3 Writing Project and Instructional Technologist in Elk Grove, California; also presenting the Digital ID wiki as part of Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento +Andrea Zellner, Red Cedar Writing Project, doc student at Michigan State University, who is working with Michigan State’s MA in Ed Tech program to “try something new” and document; artifacts from and about the experiences will be found here: http://dlday2012.tumblr.com/ +Leigh Wolf, Program Director for the MA in Ed Tech Program, is coordinating efforts with Andrea; here’s a link to a post at Leigh’s bloghttp://www.leighgraveswolf.com about Digital Learning Day. +Tom Fox, Northern California Writing Project & National Writing Project, English Professor at Chico State University, will be presenting digital compositions created by his students at the Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento +Jack Zangerle, Hudson Valley Writing Project, 8th Grade ELA teacher in Dover, NY, doing things for Digital Learning Day in his classroom +Matt Dunleavy, former Tech Liaison of the Tidewater Writing Project in Virginia, and a professor at Radford University, currently working with Chris Dede from Harvard on an Augmented Reality project called EcoMobile, which will be presented in D.C. on Feb. 1 as part of Digital Learning Day activities there. What is Digital Learning Day? http://www.digitallearningday.org
National Writing Project teachers talk about their plans for Digital Learning Day on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday, January 25 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
What are your plans for National Digital Learning Day on February 1, 2012? http://digitalis.nwp.org/site-blog/what-are-your-plans-national-digital-lea/3369 Join us a week before the big day on Teachers Teaching Teachershttp://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt in a conversation with some pretty exciting National Writing Project teachers. Watch the LiveStream of our Hangout and participate in the live chat on Wednesday, January 25 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM / World Times http://goo.gl/9XWCQ +Paul Oh helped us invite this amazing list of guests. They are listed below, along with one thing we’ve asked them in our conversation about Digital Learning Day. +Natalie Bernasconi, Central California Writing Project and middle school teacher; presenting the Digital ID wiki http://digital-id.wikispaces.com/Welcome as part of California Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento on Feb. 1 +Gail Desler, Area 3 Writing Project and Instructional Technologist in Elk Grove, California; also presenting the Digital ID wiki as part of Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento +Andrea Zellner, Red Cedar Writing Project, doc student at Michigan State University, who is working with Michigan State’s MA in Ed Tech program to “try something new” and document; artifacts from and about the experiences will be found here: http://dlday2012.tumblr.com/ +Leigh Wolf, Program Director for the MA in Ed Tech Program, is coordinating efforts with Andrea; here’s a link to a post at Leigh’s bloghttp://www.leighgraveswolf.com about Digital Learning Day. +Tom Fox, Northern California Writing Project & National Writing Project, English Professor at Chico State University, will be presenting digital compositions created by his students at the Digital Learning Day presentations in Sacramento +Jack Zangerle, Hudson Valley Writing Project, 8th Grade ELA teacher in Dover, NY, doing things for Digital Learning Day in his classroom +Matt Dunleavy, former Tech Liaison of the Tidewater Writing Project in Virginia, and a professor at Radford University, currently working with Chris Dede from Harvard on an Augmented Reality project called EcoMobile, which will be presented in D.C. on Feb. 1 as part of Digital Learning Day activities there.
What is Digital Learning Day?
Here’s part of their answer on http://www.digitallearningday.org :
Digital Learning Day is a culminating event in a year-round national awareness campaign to improve teaching and learning for all children. On Digital Learning Day, we are asking everyone, no matter your comfort with technology–teachers, librarians, school leaders, afterschool programs, community groups, parents–to sign up and be counted in this effort by doing the following:
Start a conversation. At a PTA/PTO meeting, in your school, department, library, or community-based organization, talk about your goals for your students and how digital learning can help meet their needs. Watch the Digital Learning Day National Town Hallhttp://www.digitallearningday.org/events/ meeting on February 1, 2012 and participate virtually. Watch the daylong webcasthttp://www.digitallearningday.org/events/ and pass it on to others who care about student learning! Not sure where to start? Check out our Getting Started section (coming soon) and soon you’ll be on your way!
Try one new thing. Sample an online lesson, use mobile devices in class, start a wiki, use digital storytelling, start a project-based learning unit, but above all, challenge your teaching, learning, and pedagogy and see what digital technology can do for you and the students you serve! Check out our resources and toolkits http://www.digitallearningday.org/toolkits/ and go digital!
Showcase your success. Submit a video of how you are innovating to give the students you work with the best learning experience possible! Better yet, have your students take the lead and show us how digital learning works for them!
Check out the Awesome Ideas! pagehttp://www.digitallearningday.org/toolkits/teachers/awesome_ideas to see what others are doing to celebrate Digital Learning Day.
Digital Learning Day is not just for schools; learning takes place in many environments, so libraries, community or afterschool programs, and other groups along with parents and students are all invited. Sign uphttp://www.digitallearningday.org/sign-up/ today, learn more, and join us for a celebration of innovation. Visit the toolkit section to get started!
Invitation to join a special guest on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday 1.18.12 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
+Deborah Frieze one of the authors of Walk Out Walk On http://walkoutwalkon.net will be joining us on Teachers Teaching Teachers this week. Let us know if you would like to join the Hangout directly or watch the LiveStream of this event at http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt and participate in the live chat with other viewers. All of this on Wednesday, January 18 at 9:00 Eastern USA / 6:00 Pacific /World Times: http://goo.gl/OZlGK *More about Deborah from http://www.walkoutwalkon.net/authors : In 2001, Deborah Frieze walked out of her career as an executive in the high-tech industry. She was disillusioned by a business culture that emphasized short-term results, looked upon growth as an end rather than a means, and cared more about compliance than community. A year later, she met Meg Wheatley and a community of pioneering leaders who, like her, were walking out of organizations and systems that were failing to contribute to the common good. These were friends and colleagues of The Berkana Institute. She currently lives in Boston but can more often be found visiting friends and colleagues around the world who are creating healthy and resilient communities. Learn more athttp://www.deborahfrieze.com . Invite your colleagues to join us as well.
New Year’s Party at Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday, 1.4.12 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
Celebrate the New Year with +Chris Sloan @csloan, +monika hardy@monk51295, and +Paul Allison @paulallison in a Hangout on Wednesday, 1.4.12 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times:http://goo.gl/65fmn . Watch the LiveStream and chat with others athttp://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt We love to hear what your plans are for the new semester or year or whatever. What projects are your students working on? What shifts are you following in your teaching? We’re leaving a lot of room for you on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers. This would be a great show to join us! Please let us know if you’ll be there!
This Friday, Monika will be meeting with Jared Polis, U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 2nd congressional districthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Polis . She will be asking that her efforts in Loveland, CO at the Be You house andhttp://labconnections.blogspot.com be a true experimental lab to the state. “Perhaps we might get funding per census, as we crowdsource communities of practice.” Monika will explain more and ask responses to this work on the show. Paul has recently updated a guide he uses to organize a passion-based curriculum with students using http://youthvoices.net and he would love thoughts about this document as well:https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1eqLUXP6TXxrtor-HnXOobZEVmwTMfex9TxOlnN5Z3iU This guide, which animates Paul’s classroom is part of a wonderful connection on NWP’s Digital Is:http://digitalis.nwp.org/collection/assessing-multimedia-compositions and Paul explains it in this resource on NWP’s Digital Is:http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/1259 Chris reminds us that this might be a good time to “talk about New Year’s resolutions in our own teaching, and maybe looking back at what went well last year.” Please plan to join us. And let us know if you will be able to be in the Hangout with us
This Friday, Monika will be meeting with Jared Polis, U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 2nd congressional districthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Polis . She will be asking that her efforts in Loveland, CO at the Be You house andhttp://labconnections.blogspot.com be a true experimental lab to the state. “Perhaps we might get funding per census, as we crowdsource communities of practice.” Monika will explain more and ask responses to this work on the show. Paul has recently updated a guide he uses to organize a passion-based curriculum with students using http://youthvoices.net and he would love thoughts about this document as well:https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1eqLUXP6TXxrtor-HnXOobZEVmwTMfex9TxOlnN5Z3iU This guide, which animates Paul’s classroom is part of a wonderful connection on NWP’s Digital Is:http://digitalis.nwp.org/collection/assessing-multimedia-compositions and Paul explains it in this resource on NWP’s Digital Is:http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/1259 Chris reminds us that this might be a good time to “talk about New Year’s resolutions in our own teaching, and maybe looking back at what went well last year.” Please plan to join us. And let us know if you will be able to be in the Hangout with us
daniel sinker: Hacker-Journalism 2011: A year of "show your work"
It has been exciting to be both a witness to and a participant in the growing movement towards open web development in journalism. 2011 is one of those years that it’s amazing to sit back, here on one of its last days, and look back at just how much has been accomplished.
There was incredible…
Discuss Walk Out Walk On and meet Brian Ingram Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday 12.21.11 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
After hearing about a teacher from Ft. Worth, Texas, +Brian Ingram at the end of a couple of recent Best of the Left episodeshttp://www.bestoftheleftpodcast.com we decided to invite him to join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers this week. Brian is a teacher who recently made a decision to walk out and to walk on into an electoral campaign. The Occupy movement has inspired him to consider a run for Congress. Talk about Inspiring! We’ll be meeting up with Brian and the others listed here via Google+ Hangout this Wednesday evening 12.21.11 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World times: http://goo.gl/kSFLO Along with many of the teachers in this list, we’ll be continuing a conversation about Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze’s book,Walk Out Walk On http://walkoutwalkon.net
Likely participants: Chris Sloan, monika hardy, Chad Sansing, Mary Ann Reilly,Scott Shelhart, Brian Ingram, Paul Allison, Ann Leaness, Pam Moran, Adam Mackie, and Heidi Hass Gable Like on the previous two weeks episodes, we want to talk about how the ideas about how communities work together for change might be reflected in our classrooms, schools, and beyond.
http://edtechtalk.com/node/5057
http://edtechtalk.com/node/5053 AND we are looking to consider what we can learn from the Occupy movements. Recently we have been having discussions around the book Walk Out Walk On http://walkoutwalkon.net which was published earlier this year by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze of The Berkana Institute. We’ve been noticing the convergence between the school change movements that many of us connected to Teachers Teaching Teachers are involved with and this book. We have also taken note of the convergence between the Occupation movements and Walk Out Walk On. As it says in the book:
On Teachers Teaching Teachers, we have been talking to teachers involved with their local Occupy Wall Street movements, and we are looking for what we can learn from both that movement and Walk Out Walk On to further our commitments and understanding of change in education. And just to recap: We will be meeting on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Mountain / 6:00 PM Pacific / World times: http://goo.gl/kSFLO. Come join us at http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt to explore with us convergences between Brian Ingram’s decision to run for Congress, Occupy Wall Street, the book, Walk Out Walk On, and our own ongoing efforts to be the change needed in public education in our local areas across the United States.
http://edtechtalk.com/node/5057
http://edtechtalk.com/node/5053 AND we are looking to consider what we can learn from the Occupy movements. Recently we have been having discussions around the book Walk Out Walk On http://walkoutwalkon.net which was published earlier this year by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze of The Berkana Institute. We’ve been noticing the convergence between the school change movements that many of us connected to Teachers Teaching Teachers are involved with and this book. We have also taken note of the convergence between the Occupation movements and Walk Out Walk On. As it says in the book:
Walk Outs are people who bravely choose to leave behind a world of unsolvable problems, scarce resources, limiting beliefs and destructive individualism. They walk on to the ideas, beliefs and practices that enable them to give birth to new systems that serve community. This is the story of an emerging movement of pioneering leaders and communities around the world who are self-organizing to create healthy and resilient communities.
On Teachers Teaching Teachers, we have been talking to teachers involved with their local Occupy Wall Street movements, and we are looking for what we can learn from both that movement and Walk Out Walk On to further our commitments and understanding of change in education. And just to recap: We will be meeting on Wednesday, December 21, 2011 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 7:00 PM Mountain / 6:00 PM Pacific / World times: http://goo.gl/kSFLO. Come join us at http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt to explore with us convergences between Brian Ingram’s decision to run for Congress, Occupy Wall Street, the book, Walk Out Walk On, and our own ongoing efforts to be the change needed in public education in our local areas across the United States.
Walk Out Walk On Part II of an ongoing conversation on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday, December 14 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
Join us at http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt for our second episode on Teachers Teaching Teachers in which we invite the ideas of Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze’s Walk Out Walk On http://walkoutwalkon.net to inspire our conversation! The people listed here will be live on Wednesday, December 14 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times:http://goo.gl/DUKv6. (Listen to or download last week’s show here: http://edtechtalk.com/node/5053): Chris Sloan, monika hardy, Scott Shelhart, Mary Ann Reilly,Paul Allison, Ann Leaness, Pam Moran, Shannon Smith, Heidi Hass Gable, and YOU!
Are you a Walk Out? Read these couple of paragraphs from the book, then come join us in a chat room at http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt and watch the LiveStream. ALSO - if you would like to join us in the Hangout, if you have read the book and would like to get in on the conversation directly, just let us know! Are you a Walkout? Read these two paragraphs from the book and plan to join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers!
Inside dying systems, Walk Outs who Walk On are those few leaders who refuse to work from the dominant values that permeate the bureaucracy, such things as speed, greed, fear and aggression. They use their formal leadership to champion values and practices that respect people, that rely on people’s inherent motivation, creativity and caring to get quality work done. These leaders consciously create oases or protected areas within the bureaucracy where people can still contribute, protected from the disabling demands of the old system. These leaders are treasures. They’re dedicated, thoughtful revolutionaries who work hard to give birth to the new in very difficult circumstances.
And then there are those who leave the system entirely, eager to be free of all constraints to experiment with the future. You’ll read their stories in the next pages. But even though they might appear to have more freedom than those still inside, they encounter many challenges that restrict their actions. Old habits and ways of thinking constantly rear up on their path. It’s easy to get yanked backwards, or to doubt that this is the right direction. It takes vigilance to notice when these old ways of thinking block the path ahead.
Walk Out Walk On and Occupy Wall Street on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday 12.7.11
Here are some threads we will be weaving together on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday, 12.7.11 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times http://goo.gl/Dqblo. Join us at edtechtalk.com/live-ttt . +monika hardy, +Chris Sloan, +Scott Shelhart, and +Paul Allison will be joined by +Mary Ann Reilly, +Ann Leaness, and+Liam O’Donnell to talk about Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze’s book, Walk Out Walk On [ walkoutwalkon.net ] After you read the details below, we hope you’ll want to join us! If you’ve been reading this book too or been involved in teaching about the Occupy movement in your classroom, please let us know so that we can include you in our Hangout as well! Here are some details: Monika Hardy wrote recently that she is “absolutely swimming in Walk Out Walk On.” She goes on to explain: We have been working on a quiet revolution the last four years in Colorado [ labconnections.blogspot.com ], both outside and in the public school system, in order to create the communities the authors, Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze share and describe so poignantly, so beautifully in their book. Mary Ann Reilly will be joining us this week. Mary seems to also be inspired by Walk Out Walk On, and has been trying to get a group of teachers together to talk about the book. Mary is a progressive educator, artist, photographer, and writer of Deepening Literacy Learning: Art and Literature Engagements in K-8 Classrooms [ infoagepub.com/index.php?id=9&p=p4b917a12e9f4a ] . We are delighted when she is able to join our conversations at Teachers Teaching Teachers. Ann Leaness will be joining is as well. Ann is a high school English teacher in Philadelphia, and she is am a member of the edcamp [edcampfoundation.org ] foundation board. Ann’s team began edcamp [edcampphilly.org ] in Philadelphia in May of 2010. Walk Out Walk On is on Ann’s bookshelf too, and recently she wrote about “The Dissenters” [lifewithl.com/2011/12/04/the-dissenters-part-1 ] in her blog: I wanted to spark some interest and also to make this unit relevant for my students. To get started, I showed the students these two videos:
UC Davis Protestors Pepper Sprayed [ youtu.be/6AdDLhPwpp4 ] and UC Davis Chancellor Katehi walks to car amidst protesters [youtu.be/nmfIuKelOt4 ] These videos sparked some interesting discussion about non-violence and the violent reaction. Some students were shocked by the violence of the direct pepper spraying on the docile students, and the lack of reaction on the students’ part. Why did they just do nothing? Why didn’t they fight back? They also remarked about the silence on the second video. We talked about the impact of that silence and the effect of the sounds of the heels hitting the pavement. Again, someone questioned why they didn’t get up and get in the Chancellor’s face. Reading Walk Out Walk On, one can’t help but wonder if the Occupy Wall Street movement might a place to find “Communities Daring to Live the Future Now,” as it’s put in the subtitle of Walk Out Walk On. One of the authors, Deborah Frieze also wonders in a blog post last month, “Is Occupy Our Opportunity?” In Walk Out Walk On, we found ourselves often in the conversation about “building the world we want today.” The communities we wrote about were walking out of failing institutions and walking on to experiment with new ways of feeding and sheltering themselves, of creating health and safety, of learning together and rebuilding relationships. This has never been about creating utopia. It’s about confronting the reality of our situation with new eyes, being willing to abandon limiting beliefs about what’s possible and who’s qualified to make a contribution. Walking on is an invitation for a different kind of social order to emerge in community. So, too, is Occupy. Dewey Square [Boston] is in some ways a microcosm of our society—for better and for worse, it amplifies our gifts and diseases. It places our social impoverishment under a microscope and invites us to do something different. It challenges us to re-learn what it means to be citizens who take responsibility for one another.
[ http://www.deborahfrieze.com/2011/11/understanding-occupy-as-a-space-to-re-learn-citizenship/-559 ] Also joining us on Teachers Teaching Teachers will be Liam O’Donnell, an award-winning children’s author and educator [liamodonnell.com/graphic-novels-books ]. He will help us wonder about communities and to talk about his work as an educator in the Occupy movement. He writes: I’ve been bringing the Occupy movement into my work with Grade 5/6s studying government and protest (with videos, twinke fingers in the classroom, etc) As a member of the OccupyToronto Education work group, I can speak to the curriculum we’re developing for schools around issues of social justice, and poverty. Also, in a recent blog post, “How Twinkle Fingers turned my classroom into a General Assembly” Liam writes: Instead of shouting out agreement or disagreement, students showed their “Twinkle Fingers” of agreement or their down low twinkles of disagreement. Confusion or questions were shown by making a letter ‘C’ shape with their hand. This “General Assembly Guide” [http://www.nycga.net/resources/general-assembly-guide ] from the New York City General Assembly shows what each symbol looks like. And to ensure all voices were heard, not just the loudest, a “stack” or speakers list was put on the chalkboard. [liamodonnell.com/feedingchange/2011/11/how-twinkle-fingers-turned-my-classroom-into-a-general-assembly ] Wow! All we need now is for you to join us at edtechtalk.com/live-tttWednesday, 12.7.11 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Timeshttp://goo.gl/Dqblo.
UC Davis Protestors Pepper Sprayed [ youtu.be/6AdDLhPwpp4 ] and UC Davis Chancellor Katehi walks to car amidst protesters [youtu.be/nmfIuKelOt4 ] These videos sparked some interesting discussion about non-violence and the violent reaction. Some students were shocked by the violence of the direct pepper spraying on the docile students, and the lack of reaction on the students’ part. Why did they just do nothing? Why didn’t they fight back? They also remarked about the silence on the second video. We talked about the impact of that silence and the effect of the sounds of the heels hitting the pavement. Again, someone questioned why they didn’t get up and get in the Chancellor’s face. Reading Walk Out Walk On, one can’t help but wonder if the Occupy Wall Street movement might a place to find “Communities Daring to Live the Future Now,” as it’s put in the subtitle of Walk Out Walk On. One of the authors, Deborah Frieze also wonders in a blog post last month, “Is Occupy Our Opportunity?” In Walk Out Walk On, we found ourselves often in the conversation about “building the world we want today.” The communities we wrote about were walking out of failing institutions and walking on to experiment with new ways of feeding and sheltering themselves, of creating health and safety, of learning together and rebuilding relationships. This has never been about creating utopia. It’s about confronting the reality of our situation with new eyes, being willing to abandon limiting beliefs about what’s possible and who’s qualified to make a contribution. Walking on is an invitation for a different kind of social order to emerge in community. So, too, is Occupy. Dewey Square [Boston] is in some ways a microcosm of our society—for better and for worse, it amplifies our gifts and diseases. It places our social impoverishment under a microscope and invites us to do something different. It challenges us to re-learn what it means to be citizens who take responsibility for one another.
[ http://www.deborahfrieze.com/2011/11/understanding-occupy-as-a-space-to-re-learn-citizenship/-559 ] Also joining us on Teachers Teaching Teachers will be Liam O’Donnell, an award-winning children’s author and educator [liamodonnell.com/graphic-novels-books ]. He will help us wonder about communities and to talk about his work as an educator in the Occupy movement. He writes: I’ve been bringing the Occupy movement into my work with Grade 5/6s studying government and protest (with videos, twinke fingers in the classroom, etc) As a member of the OccupyToronto Education work group, I can speak to the curriculum we’re developing for schools around issues of social justice, and poverty. Also, in a recent blog post, “How Twinkle Fingers turned my classroom into a General Assembly” Liam writes: Instead of shouting out agreement or disagreement, students showed their “Twinkle Fingers” of agreement or their down low twinkles of disagreement. Confusion or questions were shown by making a letter ‘C’ shape with their hand. This “General Assembly Guide” [http://www.nycga.net/resources/general-assembly-guide ] from the New York City General Assembly shows what each symbol looks like. And to ensure all voices were heard, not just the loudest, a “stack” or speakers list was put on the chalkboard. [liamodonnell.com/feedingchange/2011/11/how-twinkle-fingers-turned-my-classroom-into-a-general-assembly ] Wow! All we need now is for you to join us at edtechtalk.com/live-tttWednesday, 12.7.11 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Timeshttp://goo.gl/Dqblo.
P2PU, Common Core and Writing, OER and more on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wed. 11.30.11 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
This week on Teachers Teaching Teachers edtechtalk.com/live-ttt we’ll be continuing our conversations about OER with this amazing cast of wonderful teachers! Join us at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times http://goo.gl/pTvu1 In particular we’d like to learn more about the P2PU course that +Bud Hunt facilitated and +Karen Fasimpaur helped organize: Writing and Common Core: Deeper Learning for All [ p2pu.org/en/groups/writing-common-core-deeper-learning-for-all ] On his blog Bud wrote (a month ago):
[ budtheteacher.com/blog/2011/10/31/on-being-still-in-a-motion-medium ] I’m finding that P2PU offers a fascinating space in which to operate. It’s a space with ethos but little structure. I’m building as I go. And wondering, from time to time, if this course meets my general metric for success in all that I do as a teacher – is it useful? Are people getting what they need from the course? Oh and check out Bud’s reflections on visiting +monika hardy:
budtheteacher.com/blog/2011/11/11/visiting-with-a-neighbor-sort-of Please join us at edtechtalk.com/live-ttt on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Timeshttp://goo.gl/pTvu1 We’ll be LiveStreaming this Hangout on edtechtalk.com/live-ttt where there is also a chat. Join us! What’s your favorite OER?
[ budtheteacher.com/blog/2011/10/31/on-being-still-in-a-motion-medium ] I’m finding that P2PU offers a fascinating space in which to operate. It’s a space with ethos but little structure. I’m building as I go. And wondering, from time to time, if this course meets my general metric for success in all that I do as a teacher – is it useful? Are people getting what they need from the course? Oh and check out Bud’s reflections on visiting +monika hardy:
budtheteacher.com/blog/2011/11/11/visiting-with-a-neighbor-sort-of Please join us at edtechtalk.com/live-ttt on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Timeshttp://goo.gl/pTvu1 We’ll be LiveStreaming this Hangout on edtechtalk.com/live-ttt where there is also a chat. Join us! What’s your favorite OER?
Also joining us will be:
Open Educational Resources on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday, 11.23.11 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
We’d love for you to join us on teachersteachingteachers.org this Wednesday, November 23 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific / World Times: goo.gl/fGLws
Come learn more about Open Education Resources with these amazing educators! +Paul Oh, +Antero Garcia, +Karen Fasimpaur, and Harry Brake recently presented together at the National Council Teachers of English presentation last week: NCTE 2011 - OPEN EDUCATION, DIGITAL RESOURCES, SHARING, AND NEW LITERACIES http://www.k12opened.com/wiki/index.php/Ncte2011 +Bud Hunt recently facilitated a P2PU course on Writing & Common Core: Deeper Learning for All
http://p2pu.org/en/groups/writing-common-core-deeper-learning-for-all/content/syllabus/ What’s your favorite OER? Come join the conversation!
http://p2pu.org/en/groups/writing-common-core-deeper-learning-for-all/content/syllabus/ What’s your favorite OER? Come join the conversation!
What spaces do we need for learning? Join us on Teachers Teaching Teachers - Wednesday, Nov. 16 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
It’s a busy week with conferences and conventions, physical and online going on all over! I’m looking forward to introducing my Assistant Principal, colleague and friend Ron Link to Monika Hardy and Mary Ann Reilly. Ron is cooking up ideas for a new school, and many of his thoughts have seemed parallel to some of what Monika has been talking about at labconnections.blogspot.com Also, Mary Ann Reilly must be further into her school proposals in New Jersey. And Andrea Zellner is always a delight to hear from! So let’s keep talking about what we want schools to look like. Join us at edtechtalk.com/live-ttt Wednesday, November 16 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific. World Times:http://goo.gl/HC2s5 Perhaps you could join us in the Hangout as well! Let us know
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Join us on TTT tonight - Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011 9:00 Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
Looking forward to meeting up with some of these folks and YOU! Come join Teachers Teaching Teachers in a couple of hours - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 Pm Pacific. We have room in the Hangout tonight. It’s a great night to join us live! You can find the link to the TTT Hangout atedtechtalk.com/live-ttt Come tell us what’s on your mind and what you’ve been working on this year. World Times: http://goo.gl/4BAl7
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Chris Sloan, monika hardy, Fred Mindlin, Cynthia Shidner, Scott Shelhart, Cari Ann Shim Sham, andPaul Allison
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Zac Chase and Noble Kelly (Education Beyond Boarders) on this Week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
Education Beyond Boarders educationbeyondborders.org on this Week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers - Please plan to join this group of teachers on http://edtechtalk.com/live-ttt on Wednesday, 11.2.11 at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific. The Teachers Teaching Teachers Google+ Hangout will be broadcast via Livestream and there will be a chat room. (Notice there are a few slots left in the Hangout as well. Let us know if you would like to join us there!): Chris Sloan, monika hardy, Zac Chase, Noble Kelly, Paul Allison, and David Wees
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Teachers new to Youth Voices on this week’s TTT - 10.26 - 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific
More on Youth Voices youthvoices.net and Occupy Education occupyedu.tumblr.com on this week’s Teachers Teaching Teachers. Our guests include: Chris Sloan, Gail Desler, Fred Mindlin, monika hardy, Cynthia Shidner, Fred Haas, Beth Sanders, andPaul Allison Plus+monika hardy abconnections.blogspot.com will be back, recently inspired with conversations and presentations at a conference in NYC! There room for you on this circle. Please plan to join us at edtechtalk.com/live-ttt at 9:00 PM Eastern / 6:00 PM Pacific. World times: http://goo.gl/avjSR Utah, California, Colorado, Alaska, Massachusetts, Alabama, and New York will be represented! Please let me know if you would like to join us in this Hangout - or join the Livestream broadcast and chat with others at edtechtalk.com/live+ttt
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
(Source: New York Magazine)
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