21st Century Collaborative

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

I was over at  Around the Corner where Miguel Guhlin posts, reading his latest Girls and their Gadgets I was moved. I so identified with the ideas and feelings he expressed. I’m sorry, I see the benefits, but it appears that giving kids access to  the Read/Write web is like putting a loaded pistol in [...]

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 [...]

Link to: Techfoot Speaking with Understanding About Net Gen Learners When it comes to understanding the use of media in education and development, take a tip from the professor. Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard Graduate School of Education says, “Don’t start with the technology, when you start with technology, [...]