21st Century Collaborative

This was posted on the NSDC Website- felt you might find it s interesting as I do. The Department of Education has outlined initial guidelines for three components of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding: the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund, Title I, and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). You can find detailed [...]

I met Bruce through Will and I have to tell you from Day 1 I was impressed. Bruce Dixon is the founder and president of the Anywhere, Anytime Learning Foundation and consults to schools, school districts, education departments, Ministries of Education as well as technology companies such as Microsoft, hp-Compaq, Apple, Bertelsmann and Toshiba on [...]

There is a price to be paid for community driven learning- TIME. There are only so many hours in a day to invest in reading, learning, writing, and all that goes with being part of a community of learners. The benefits far outweigh the cost, so I am not complaining, however, it is beginning to [...]

I have finally surfaced from my doctoral COMPS preparation. On Tuesday, after I had penned the last words and hit submit on the prompts that serve as the gateway to demonstrating if I have what it takes to be a researcher and academic, I came home to this beautiful rainbow. I immediately went out searching [...]

This is my most recent entry over at techLEARNING. I would love for you to stop by there an leave your comments! Let’s put our ideas all in one place and get our collective PD 2.0 together. When preparing for the recent three day workshop- High Schools New Face I tried to model the concepts [...]

H  Originally uploaded by briangrenier Have you ever been part of a workshop that stretched you and you ended up learning as much or more than you taught? Well my time at High Schools New Face at Holiday Valley in Ellicottville, NY was just such a time for me. It was a wonderful personal learning [...]

The last two years of my life have been heavily dominated by the work I have been helping to lead in Alabama through the Alabama Best Practices Center. We designed a two-year professional development program that engages educators from participating schools in powerful conversations about 21st  Century Learning. In 2005, with support from Microsoft, ABPC [...]

Had the exciting priviledge of being interviewed by Steve Hargadon for his EdTalkLive show.EdTechLIVE’s weekly webcast interviews series by  Steve which focus on educational technology. His goal is to produce a library of recordings that provide good, brief introductions to different educational technologies that can be implemented in the K-12 school environment. I was most [...]

I had a neat collaborative experience a few days ago with Mark Wagner over at Educational Technology and Life. He was on Skype, and I needed a fresh pair of eyes to look at the abstract I was writing for my keynote in New Zealand-. We collaboratively edited the piece down to 150 words. The [...]

I am going to New Zealand! Thanks to the kind recommendation of Wes Fryer I am going to be presenting a series of keynotes and workshops in New Zealand on Web 2.0 and 21st Century teaching and learning concepts. From the conference website: TUANZ Education Conference 2007 Improving teaching, learning and thinking skills with ICT [...]