http://davidwarlick.com/2cents Teaching & Learning in the new information landscape... Sun, 11 May 2008 11:06:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Learning to Change is from the DigitalArts Alliance, of Pearson Foundation, and CoSN. A lot of it, I'd heard, and I continue to be intrigued by Stephen Heppell's concept of the "Nearly Now!" But the statement that really struck me was the first one, delivered by Keith Krueger, CEO of ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1449 It's SecondLife, and Illinois congressman, Mark Kirk (up for re-election), held a press conference on Tuesday, in front of a library, where he highlighted the "dangers" of the virtual world.... ((Broache, Anne. "Ban 'Second Life' in Schools and Libraries, Republican Congressman Says." [Weblog NewsBlog] 7 May 2008. C|Net Networks, ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1448 I'm working on a little AUP project and have been going through various examples, reading things like: Pagers, laser pointers, cell phones, or other electronic devices not part of the instructional program will not be allowed in school. Students are not allowed to use, wear, possess or store in their locker: cellular ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1447 It's a book by Clay Shirky, who, after only a little research, I'm surprised that I'd not heard of before.  Here's an excerpt from a rather long blog post by Shirky, "..a lightly editied transcript from a speech (he) gave at the Web 2.0 conference.." Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1446 Here's another one from the category of learnable media.  Shared by David Weinberger, via Twitter ((Weinberger, David. "Status." Twitter. May 6 2008. 6 May 2008 <http://twitter.com/dweinberger/statuses/804916791>.)) this afternoon,  Flypmedia is a slick and highly interactive magazine.  Leafing pages, as old as the technique is, still makes me yearn for the ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1445 It is customary for us to suggest books for summer reading during the few weeks that many educators have to retool and re-energize. Two books have had me almost totally engrossed over the past several weeks, preventing me from spending the time I should with more professional explorations.  They are both ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1444 I use to write a lot about the possibilities of fully digital and networked textbooks (or what ever we'll call them).  My ideas were largely speculative -- from my own limited imagination.  But now, it seems that just about every day I run across some new web application or service ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1443 I'm waiting here for a Skype call from a client who wants me to talk with their art and music teachers about 21st century skills and the creative arts. While waiting, decided to scan through my aggregator and ran across this reference from Smart Mobs about two recent video ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1442 A recent report (Ready to Innovate/pdf) from The Conference Board and Americans for the Arts, in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators (AASA), reminds us that creativity, and integral part of innovation, is among the top five skills that will become more important over the next five years.  ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1441 It's sure been nice to be at home for the past week.  With only a few virtual events on my calendar last week, I've been retiring to and rising from my own bed for the past seven days -- and this trend will continue, as May is always a slow ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1440 For those who are not aware, ThinkQuest is part competition, part instructional project, part mob-sourcing, and entirely one of the most exciting things for teachers and learners on the Internet -- for the past 10+ years.  Originally the brainchild of Advanced Network & Services president, Al Weis, and now run ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1439 I'm not sure what value it would be to your daily classroom or school management task.  The term, Google Platonic Distance, is an invention of a Barcelona group called bestiario.  They use a combination of art, design, and scientific computation to generate useful visualizations of vast information sets and complex ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1438 Ooops!  I made the mistake of stealing one glance at my aggregator and found this (What is the future of "The World Wide Web?") from Mark Kramer's Smart Mobs.  It seems that it was 15 years ago, today, that directors at the CERN lab (birthplace of WWW), signed a document ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1437 It seems that me and my Deepest Sender window have been estranged lately.  By the way, Deepest Sender, a Firefox extention, is my blog editor of choice.  It isn't that I haven't had blogable ideas in my head.  It is that the ideas are too big, or too scattered yet, ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1436 Marlene Woo-Lun just forwarded to me a post from LM-Net (about 9 million librarians online), apparently posted by Donna (taglines) Baumbach, of University of Central Florida. ((Baumbach, Donna. "Web 2.0 Tools - Need Your Input." E-mail to LM_NET Mailing List.25 Apr 2008.)) The message is thanking more than 600 LM-Net ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1435 A while back, I received an e-mail from Martha Barwick, who is working an internship project through Johns Hopkins University and ISTE.  They have established a wiki for the discussion of ISTE NETS refreshed standards and their implementation.  The project is... ...looking for individuals or groups to collaborate ... in discussing ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1434 If this visual strikes your teacher-imagination, then you need to check out the Constructing Modern Knowledge 2008 event, organized by Gary Stagger.  His faculty includes Cynthia Solomon (Monsignor Haddad Middle School), Melinda Kolk (The Constructivist Consortium), David Wagner (Tech4Learning), Sylvia Martinez (Generation YES), and John Stetson (..finest educator I'e ever ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1433 This post was live-blogged, so please excuse typos and awkward wording This is a typical avatar, and this is a typical user...funny, picture of Keith Richards. First game that was in any way immersive was Stellar. Compare that to Crysis, a new, nearly photographic quality virtual world ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1432 Live blogged, so please excuse typos and awkward wordkings. David Gratton, of Danat, is doing a session now called, Implementing Social Networks for Efficient Capture and Generation of Knowledge.  His company built TOOD, which was a pre iTunes media delivery system.  Gratton is talking about himself and what he's accomplished.  He ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1431 Live blogged, so please excuse typos and awkward wordkings.I'm sitting, at this moment, at the VSS conference in Vancouver, with the whole day to learn and converse. I'm a consumer today, Ian Jukes hits the stage in just a minute, but it was serendipitous to see Kevin McCluskey ... http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1430