I had the opportunity recently to facilitate a group of business, education, political and community leaders in a discussion about developing a workforce ready group of graduates in the 21st Century. I was given the task of relaying the experience. I have decided to share with you to see if you agree or disagree with these leaders’ ideas and action steps and why. I encourage you to read and weigh in in the comment section below. I look forward to your responses. Executive Summary Newport News Public Schools is moving quickly to address.

So I am on Twitter and looking at various posts. I see one about ScreenFlow and decide to Google it. I see a YouTube tutorial and decide to watch it. It is a Mac tool, but I like speaking both languages. So I click on the video above and like wow. Here is one of your students answering a question someone had about how to do something within the program. He is teaching it as well as any of us could. Why do we need to understand the shift in education? Because they can learn and teach themselves anything they want to know without leaving home. .

My life has been a whirlwind of activity since NECC and I have found it hard to keep up with blogging. I don’t know why, but I feel guilty blogging when I have other deadlines looming. Do any of you experience that? Is it illogical? Should I blog anyway, much like we still get the day to day things done at work or home, even when we have extra tasks on our "to do" lists. Or should I put 100% of my attention toward the deadlines and follow Grandmas’ rule of "work before play"? I’d love to hear your take. D.

This post may be premature as I have only seen 2/3s of the PLP Independent Schools’ team presentations of their impact journey through PLP and team projects- but I must say, Will and I were more than impressed. It was more on the level of WOW. From extensive summer institutes with a Web 2.0 registration process for other schools to attend (all taught by the team members) to an 8th grade project that will utilize the best that Web 2.0 has to offer in a project based format implemented by all 8th grade teachers next year to a creative Lunc.

In this day and age of school reform, many are looking to how we train teachers as the key to educational improvement. Research shows that on average school districts spend the equivalent of $200 per pupil on professional development and these learning experiences add both time and effort demands on a teachers already impossible day (Killeen, 2002). The federal No Child Left Behind Act’s emphasis on results has prompted school system leaders, staff developers, principals, andteachers to become much more deliberate about the professional-deve.

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 allow it to be used not only on AT&T’s cell phone network but also on T-Mobile’s network and overseas. George Hotz remembers taking apart his first computer, an Apple II, when he was 4 or 5 year.

When conversations turn to digital literacy or netgenrs I never have to look far for examples. I have several who live in my house. Noah is my soon to be 21 year old son. He is the only boy in a family of four young adult children. He has many passions: snowboarding, fishing, gaming, reading, Allison and technology (not necessarily in that order.) Currently, he is working his way through a computer science degree as a CADD tech at an engineering firm. Tonight we are grilling out fresh tuna he caught while fishing with his friends. Last night h.

This podcast is the second in a series of podcasts with highly creative people. I am interested to see if there is anything to learn from creative people in terms of reforming education, especially as it relates to digital and media literacy. Amber Nussbaum is a  24 year old graphic designer for a Fortune 500 transportation company and my oldest daughter. She is without a doubt one of the most creative people I know. In this podcast she shares her own thoughts on creativity, her growth as a blogger (she has been at it for 8 years), and he.

Watching my kids play Guitar Hero and was reminded of the the Pink Floyd song  ‘Another Brick in the Wall’. The   lyrics of this song contain the words “We   don’t need no education”, sung in a dirge-like tone.  Then shouting the lyrics… “Teachers,   leave those kids alone.”   This song is a product of the late twentieth century and seems to be a comment   on education in the post-industrial age. It pushes me to ask…Can   a mass education system, designed during an industrial ag.