21st Century Collaborative

                                                                               http://www.naehcy.org/backtoschool.html       National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth   BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENTShelley Reed (Maine) VICE PRESIDENTTim Stahlke (Texas) SECRETARY Mattie McVeyy Lord [...]

Crossposted over at TechLearning. Drop by and add to the conversation. Think all the buzz about school soon becoming irrelevant is just hype? Meet George Hotz, (geohot) a 17 year-old from New Jersey who blogs. What makes George significant?  He has just “unlocked” the iPhone, finding a way to get around the device’s restrictions and [...]

A wise man once said, “None of us are as good as all of us,” and in that light the conveners of K12 Online 2007 are requesting volunteers to chair and serve on committees that will support the upcoming K12Online conference. Each committee will have a convener, a chair, and three committee members, to make [...]

Are you a blogger? Are you ready to be part of something big? Do you want to leave a mark on the face of the earth? CELEBRATE THE 3rd BlogDay ON AUGUST 31st What is BlogDay? BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers [...]

Do you know about eSNIPS?  eSnips is the ONE place where you can share ALL your passions; your thoughts, photos, files, stuff you find on the web… and you control who you share it with and how. Get 5GB of free storage. Today, I was scooting around looking for content and came across the professional [...]

As we are hard at work planning Year 3 of the 21st Century T&L work I am helping to lead in Alabama, I just found out we were featured in the Microsoft PiL Newsletter – “Partners in Learning Connection” for the month of August 2007. The featured piece as it appeared in the Newsletter appears [...]

My brilliant friend Mary Tedrow posted this piece over on Teacher Magazine. It is a must read. Senior Year: A Teenage WastelandIn 2001, the U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley called the high school senior year a "wasteland." In 2005, researchers concluded that the majority of high school students were not challenged during their [...]

Got this from Alan Levine’s NMC site. August 15, 2007 (Thinkerers Quest, Second Life) – Thinkerer Studios – a network of residents in the virtual online world of Second Life – today announced the launch of an awards program to identify and encourage the development of creative products and services that use Second Life capabilities [...]

Thanks to http://rbvandijk.edublogs.org/ for the point to these fantastic, shareable cartoons. Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

Some would argue that John Dewey was one of the most influential thought leaders on education in the twentieth century. His ideas on experience, reflection, democracy, community and environments for learning have made their mark on education for generations to come. In my opinion, he was a man before his time. We seemed to understand [...]