Zaid at IMETC
A nice slideset used by in his keynote talk at the 2nd International Malaysian Educational Technology Convention (IMETC).
Friday, November 07, 2008
Thursday, November 06, 2008
USA 2.0 / Learning 2.0
Keith Teare put it nicely:
Obama’s movement has unleashed a bottoms up openness. The People can no longer be seen as a passive, fear-focused, manageable mob whose only job is to show up to vote every 4 years for the fear-monger in chief. The future will not look like the past. It will be better. There will be more thinking, more doing, more optimism and more real politics.
I believe this is exactly what our educational systems do urgently need...Change...A move away from command, control, and passivity toward openness, emergence, flexibility, participation, and dynamic.
Our educational institutions do need their Barack Obama...It’s long past time for change...
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Thinking Outside the Inbox
A video of Luis Suarez, speaking at the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, on his 9-month-long experiment in “Thinking Outside the Inbox”. Luis bas been trying in the past 9 months to use different social software tools rather than email in order to keep connected to his personal network. In this talk, he reports on that experience. Actually, I like the idea but I'm wondering why not to use both; i.e. social software tools and emails in parallel. I believe there are some contexts where it's better to use emails.
Monday, November 03, 2008
Footprints in the Digital Age
A good article by Will Richardson in Educational Leadership on "Giving Students Ownership of Learning".
Will writes:
More than ever before, students have the potential to own their own learning—and we have to help them seize that potential. We must help them learn how to identify their passions; build connections to others who share those passions; and communicate, collaborate, and work collectively with these networks. And we must do this not simply as a unit built around "Information and Web Literacy." Instead, we must make these new ways of collaborating and connecting a transparent part of the way we deliver curriculum from kindergarten to graduation.
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