21st Century Collaborative

Interesting discussion over on Will’s site.  University of Michigan is offering a M.A. specialization in Social Computing. Here’s the list of courses you have to take: SI 508: Networks: Theory and Application (3 credits) SI 532 Digital Government I: Information Technology and Democratic Politics (1.5 credits) SI 583: Recommender Systems (1.5 credits) SI 631: Content [...]

Pre-Conference ChatLast night a group of educators in New Zealand, TUANZ conference organizers, and Miguel Guhlin and I gathered in Elluminate to talk about ICT implementation in New Zealand schools. You can listen/watch the Webcast here. Participants from NZ included Janice ( a principal), Craig Hayman, Wayne and Tom from NSC (Camp Te Anau), Allanah, [...]

Great time over at Women of Web 2.0 last night. David Warlick and I were the invited guests. We had a wonderful time talking about K12 Online, the recent Time article on How to Build a Student for the 21st Century, qualitative and quantitative research around social networking issues, professional  development, and more. David was [...]

One of my preservice teachers posted this today… One of our assignments throughout the semester has been to maintain a blog about our pre-service teaching experiences. Prof. Nussbaum-Beach has also encouraged us to get our students blogging. Thus far, I have been somewhat skeptical on the idea, as it seems logistically challenging to implement. However, [...]

A group of teacher leaders were discussing Web 2.0 tools recently. A friend of mine posted this… Hey Guys, Had an interesting interaction today—-I had a parent stumble onto a discussion board that is hosted on the main page of the wiki service that I use.  This is a page hosted by the wiki company—not [...]

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 [...]