21st Century Collaborative

David Murray blogs over at Cycling 4 Life and we share a passion for cycling. I was on his site and saw where he shared the best illustration of Einstein’s quote, "Imagination is more important than knowledge." Imagination is "the act or power of forming mental images of what is not present; the act or [...]

As promised here is the 3rd podcast in a series of 4 from my NAEHCY conference keynote. This one relates my experiences after high school and into adulthood. Embedded are many stories and a theoretical justification about why we should use technology and inquiry driven approaches when working with high poverty populations. Specific examples of [...]

I really like reading what Taran Rampersad has to say. Taran is a computer consultant, software developer, and educator for the University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies and blogs at KnowProSE.com He picked up on my post Schooling for Tomorrow:Learning to Bridge the Digital Divide and specifically on the clip (Linux commercial) [...]

This is who we teach. This is the medium they use. We need to speak in their native tongue.

Darren and I were interviewed over at EdTechTalk about the K12 Online Conference. It was my first experience over WorldBridges and what a wonderful time I had! We had quite a few folks that were in the chat room during the Skypecast which added real energy to the conversation. The conversation went beyond the conference [...]

I just watched the most amazing documentary called the Paper Clip Project about a small middle school in Tennessee.From Wikipedia– "The Paper Clips Project is a project by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee city of Whitwell who created a monument for the Holocaust victims in Nazi Germany. It started in 1998 as [...]

As long as I am on creativity Darren does a great post on Marco Torres on his blog. He adds more information about the video clip I posted on Digital Students@Analog Schools. Darren says… What’s most interesting about this video is that the kids did it themselves; on their own initiative. It wasn’t for a [...]

Creativity has always come easy for me. I love problem solving, brainstorming, and idea sharing. I remember watching Bewitched as a kid and wanting to grow up and do her husband Darrin Stephen’s job. He was a rising young advertising executive who worked at the New York firm of McMahon and Tate. The shows where [...]

Click Here  to see a movie made by digital learners about how they are trapped in schools who still teach using analog strategies. I came across the clip in a comment left on Will Richardson’s site where he was blogging about the Building Learning Communities conference he and everyone else but me were attending. I [...]

Owning Contemporary Literacy…The Next Big Conversation John Pederson on his blog posted this…"Rank this among the “Top 10 of 2005″ that make me think a bit deeper about everything that’s going on."  In reference to  my "Can’t give away what you dont own" comment. One strategy for helping teachers  "own it"  was covered in an [...]