my notes:
Making the Grade - his earlier book
started as unhappy hs school student and realized school didn't have to be boring, so became educator, 1st 5 at risk, then at political school,
read the world is flat by friedman, and realized the changing world, became concerned with all skills young people would need
and wanted to reach a broader audience
ed alone can't do it
we need to specifically engage business leaders
late 90's national ed summit - few ed's invited, they hatched this idea of accountability and standards movement
now - need to decide what kids will need
what do they need, how can we engage them
wagner presenting to admin in iowa
sports and performing arts - use video tapes routinely to see where to improve - we should be doing that
per participant (sorry missed the name) tech plan
we're way too focused on answers than on questions
ie: focus on getting people into shelters - when that wasn't the problem.. homelessness is
he wrote a new afterward for global achievement gap
need methodology for engaging community
virginia beach city public schools - got 1000 people in their civic center on an evening
need to learn research and development
check this out....
we need to create laboratory schools - labs for innovation - (yay!)
strategic plan is one page - and posted ( i think he was referring to virginia beach - again - check this out)
this site is a great read in and of itself:
Rigor Redefined
another book: Educational Leadership - Expecting Excellence
too much focus on content - more about how you think about content, how you access content
schools are entirely focused on timeless learning
21st cent... what matters most - just in time learning
how do we do both?
ie: battlefield manuals always written by army
today - the army writes manuals as wikis where they expect every soldier on the front to contribute (just in time - or new ) learning
dr's doing same thing,.... have to engage in just in time learning to serve patient's needs in 21st cent.
how do we put these together?
that is ed hour of need:
there's no way to teach the competencies (21st cent buzzwords) w/o also teaching academic content
of course critical thinking is going to be around content
Leonard Waks: The key is to have a curricular framework that is just a framework -- curriculum lite.
dlaufenberg: I think it comes down to how you measure the learning. At the end of the unit how do you measure competency... a test? or a project? which one evidences competencies and which one measures content
ransomtech: "knowledge-able" - Mike Wesch
dlaufenberg: almost nothing in what Tony is talking about... is mirrored in RttT/NCBLB
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Leonard Waks: @kas if th
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Leonard Waks: @kas if th
dlaufenberg: teachers who want to have kids look into media literacy... newstrust.net is a great project
angela - Great book to start with Digital literacy lessosns- Alan November: Web Literacy good stuff to model
Karl Fisch: I used to use the quote "You never get a second chance to make a good first impression." It now takes on a whole new meaning with a Digital Footprint. People often "meet" you and your ideas before they physically meet you. Important conversation to have with students - and parents - and teachers.
1. ask right questions
worry about requiring all people to study higher math? why not require stats?
we're requiring it because colleges are... but why? perhaps because it's a sorting tool
2. more important is performance standards than content standards
3. effective teaching
4. the president praised school district for firing teachers, but where were the leaders.
not asking the right questions
martin: Rocket rob, great question. What is "real" education for individuals? How can they apply thear learning and new knowledge to their live long learning goal?
content is no longer king, competencies rule more
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