children being in the world

thank you Jodhbir

boredom is a disease of the modern world

what a great combo with colin ward's the child in the city

seth godin

good exposure

In fact, most people I know (in every field) don't do nearly enough work for free, they're not contributing enough to their community, not adding their expertise or their ideas to the conversation. As a result, they're either invisible or seen as not interested.

working on a culture of trust...

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i'm thinking i got this from Thomas first..

Reality as failed state - tl;dr version (I like doing this)

I can only offer these leads – the power of unflinching awareness, of looking directly at the crisis we find ourselves in; the natural centrifugal tendency of human consciousness, when it is given the necessary time and space, free from distraction and negative stimulus; our minds’ ability to re-coalesce, despite ourselves, into unified singularity; and, perhaps most importantly, the remediating power of joining together in reality with other human beings: of connecting the ideas, the facts, the data, the lonely realities discovered in the long watches of the night lit only by the ghostly lantern-light of a laptop, with the immediate, pulsing, reviving, hope-giving reality of mutual conviviality and of shared human presence.

the web is allowing us this space now., that is part of the new..
the cool thing.. the boldness we gain from that new is allowing us boldness to call out physical spaces.. mimicking the web as it were, as not only - not ridiculous, but something we can't not do... for youth.

(youth, you to whatever degree you decide)

from organic playgrounds to random and rhizomatic and ongoing conversations on video chats, to mental/physical spaces of permission to be..

self-directed learning

from eflclassroom.com
really talking about mentor alongside:

also via alfie kohn:
 five reasons to not say good job - along with the be a mentor alongside - that we're gathering 

north star teens

guiding principles to north star teens

school as life
everything i do counts now...
learning is natural, school is optional

huge thanks @schoolingworld - Carol Black

sounds like kool beans ben

also look into Bennington College in Vermont


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child in the city

can a playground be too safe

great combo with the book i'm reading.. the child in the city, colin ward


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jeff lebow

i met Jeff because of google + hangouts..
when a hangout and the coop collided.

been following some of his ustreamed hangouts...
the other day, one in particular, on mooc, Jeff said something to this effect:

the other guys in the hangout were giving him a hard time of his geekiness.. like - how much superppower can Jeff take on.. and that they hadn't even tapped into his capabilities in facilitating conversations on hangouts and ustream chat... etc.

Jeff said.. that's what i do.. i bridge things.. when i see conversations going on in different places, i can't not try to bridge them.
(go to the july 27 edmooc ustream to hear for yourself

that's huge.
that's the huge element of what we're after.
in essence.. that's a huge piece of the definition of innovation.. connecting ideas, unlikely ideas even..


posting it again because this site is huge http://jefflebow.net/

stephen downes does hit what i've been thinking of circles on the head.. they are a filter for you - and others -  but in a transparent way..
also - adding facets of people to circles



dang... didin't know this existed: http://www.youtube.com/editor

dang. huge.
remix is innovation, is learning, .. can change the world..

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bif7

calm embrace of the unknown

drop out as measure

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/28/138750527/why-dropout-data-can-be-so-unreliable?ft=1&f=1013

darn -i thought it was going to say something about dropout rates not being a legit form of measurement of success..
why is dropping out of school a non-questioned standard of measure... perhaps a better question... what's so restrictive of schools that so many drop out...
not that schools are bad, just too restrictive.. that can be changed..

simon sinek

http://sinekpartners.typepad.com/refocus/2011/07/the-power-of-rachel-beckwith.html#

alan november

blc11
langwitches: Keynotes and selected session videos from #blc11- http://bit.ly/nZmnKe

john holt

"A person’s freedom of learning is part of his freedom of thought, even more basic than his freedom of speech. If we take from someone his right to decide what he will be curious about, we destroy his freedom of thought. We say, in effect, you must think not about what interests and concerns you, but about what interests and concerns us." ~John Holt

thanks Amy..

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gregory hill

incredible insight..

is respect for every voice a part of your soul...


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clay christensen

disrupting uni's

via harvard business school - working knowledge


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ben meyers

whoa, empty school:



thanks Val


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lemonade

detroit trailer

Lemonade: Detroit Trailer from Erik Proulx on Vimeo.


thank you Amanda
@venueX

john dewey

a picture is worth a 1000 words...
let's not limit it to 1.
or 1000.

i'm not saying narrowing is not good, but what if our answers aren't showing up because our questions aren't allowed in the picture.

ie: nclb

Dewey's words in How We Think


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alex pappas

http://theotheramerica.squarespace.com/dispatches/2010/5/23/chicken-and-rainwater.html

Roberto Greco:http://iwishthiswas.cc/

core standards

ianchia @monk51295 @MaryAnnReilly @ktenkely & Pearson's next-gen roadmap to 2014 http://t.co/Ma65ibl & US states overview http://t.co/DYzc41m (PDFs)

ianchia @monk51295 @MaryAnnReilly @ktenkely fyi Assessments+Common Core bigpicture http://t.co/ZCN40FD Pearson's roadmap http://t.co/EPf33TU #edchat


thank you Ian.
but oh how sucky.
some of the most depressing tweets i've received of late.
we're curating a slow death. - unless of course suicide is involved.
350 bill to make sure we are all assessing the same, wrong, (right for a small few granted) things.
and now we're gearing what moneys we spend on what tech - for that same reason.

why can't we be smart enough to focus on learning. and focus on the resources we do have.
and focus foremost on minds. curiosity.

ugh

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seth godin

no such thing as business ethics