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Wednesday, March 10, 2010

best advice

how lucky am i?

today i get to talk to future teachers at csu.

thanks to the cool mash-up with Jim Folkestad.

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what should i say to them?

best piece of advice for being a teacher?... for being alive even...

create a personallearningenvironment

via mollybob

via ben wilkoff

via will richardson (watch this clip later.. you'll love it)

what's key about Will's message for me personally - he taught me - to

do it for yourself first.

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if you aren't learning something new everyday..

you shouldn't be a teacher. period.

are you even alive? 

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We have messed things up quite a bit:

1) assessments - assessment should be ongoing - self-induced - opportunities to tweak yourself, we've made them a faulty tool to tell people if they are good or bad - perpetual beta

2) teaching vs learning - teachers should model learning, not so much teaching, in the classroom [erica mcwilliams, usefully ignorant, knowing what to do when you don't know what to do]

3) standardization should be about access, for people - you need customization
           access - to web and tools
           process - are teachers modeling learning via ple?
           connectivity - are students connecting to ple with help from teachers/facilitators and via their modeling

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so i'm telling you..

do it for yourself first.

Create your own pln per passion - in some ning, on twitter, face-to-face

look again, esp, how ben carefully selected his, and i guarantee you, everything else will fall into place. i'm wondering if it's the only way to get true

(ben just tweeted me ... wanted me to let you know he is always available for conversation. he is an incredible thinker.. daily questions here.)

overwhelmed? - don't even know where to start?

1. read a book or two

2. read a post daily... i suggest seth godin or ben wilkoff

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some cool stuff the stuff i was really asked to share:

1.from my class: join our ning.. i'll post something here to welcome you... get some conversations started - as much for you as for my students... (jing about or ning) some cool things they've done -and cool collections

2. from my life experiences: join twitter...for starters follow these (twitter houses my daily pln...do realize it's slow at first)

3. in the future: innovation lab
   1. ultimate goal - so extreme - kids create - school is life
             2. tech interns - now teachers model learning in class, too much new to do it any other way
   ie: how to use cells and pivot: web search as if we're really searching the web   and   7th grade ple
   3. media interns - hub of school - key to web access for kids that don't have it
             4. marketing - how we get better spending and open access

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extensions of the kool bean craziness

1. your school - design it and your pd - design it

2. shared w/the President here: obama app - goal - many disruptions by fall - call out for videos

3. shared w/the government/people here: ed.gov please rate it if you like it (to keep the idea surfaced)

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any of you student teaching next fall - looking at loveland - and interested in what i shared today? if so email me: monk51295@aol.com, tweet me

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check this out tonight...