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What Does a 21st Century Education Mean To You?
That’s the question being asked by the White House right now. I happen to be presenting this Saturday at a Media conference here in Reno. This is a bit unusual for me since I usually present to educators. My presentation will be about what a 21st...
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Thu, Mar 04 2010 7:39 AM
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2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit
I’ll be presenting at the 2010 Nevada Interactive Media Summit on March 6, 2010, at the University of Nevada, Reno’s Joe Crowley Student Union. I’m looking forward to showcasing what my students have been up to, and hoping to make the case...
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Thu, Feb 18 2010 9:37 PM
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I’m Just Asking … Is Our Education Plan The Best We Can Do?
Dear President Obama and Nation: Here we are well into the 21st century, and through the “Race To The Top” legislation we are about to spend more good money after bad tweaking a centuries old model for education instead of doing the real work of looking...
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Sun, Feb 07 2010 10:42 AM
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My EduCon 2.2 Session Update / Request
Now that I am in Philadelphia for the Educon 2.2 Conference and able to focus more on my session, I thought I’d get a bit of a jumpstart on refining the conversation. I’m going to take very little time to “present” and use the...
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Thu, Jan 28 2010 9:11 PM
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It’s Been Three Years!
It’s been three years since this photo was taken. The great news is that everyone in this photo is doing well! Click on the photo to see the 5 minute video the students made that has now been accessed over 500,000 times. This experience changed...
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Mon, Jan 25 2010 11:29 AM
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My Attempt To Explain (sort of) The Power of Building Your Personal Learning Network (PLN)
Alternate Title: “An Educators Guide to Why You Want A Personal Learning Network” Realize you already have a PLN … those teachers and colleagues that you plan with, share with, gripe with, support and count on. You know which member(s) of...
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Sat, Jan 23 2010 3:07 PM
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EduCon 2.2 - Participate In My Conversation
I’m thrilled to say that I’ll be attending my first EduCon in a few weeks and I wanted to make attendees both F2F and otherwise aware of what my “Conversation” will be about. My session/conversation is entitled: Elementary School...
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Sat, Jan 09 2010 12:57 PM
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Our First Blog Posts! (yeah!!!)
It’s been a long time coming, but my new class of 4th graders posted for the first time on their blogs today. Our new MacBooks are up and running, we’ve learned how to turn them on, find our class wiki page … and now how to post to our...
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Tue, Dec 15 2009 3:59 PM
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Ran Into A Former Student
My family was given some “unused” tickets to the local production of The Nutcracker last night (which was fantastic btw). We sat in a section where most of the audience were families of children with cancer or in remission of cancer. I was...
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Sat, Dec 12 2009 8:43 AM
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Going From 1:1 To Not 1:1 … Temporarily Even Is Tough … More Thoughts
We have 30 laptops charged and ready that are still not on the school district network after 15 weeks of school … should be put on soon … fingers crossed! For the last 3 years my class has been a 1:1 laptop class … but for various reasons...
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Wed, Dec 02 2009 10:06 PM
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School Change Is Important … As Long As They Don’t Really Change!
SchoolChange Originally uploaded by BCrosby I made this poster from a photo I took at a turn of the century school in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, using “Motivator” on FD’s Flickr Toys. http://bighugelabs.com/ Click on the photo to...
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Tue, Dec 01 2009 9:17 PM
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Blessed, Motivated, Challenged
I’ve written several posts about the process of getting back to 1:1 after having to “retire” the 9 year old iBooks my class had been using. Very unexpectedly my school district decided to replace the ones that our new wireless system...
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Sat, Nov 21 2009 10:29 AM
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Reason #23 for being part of a PLN
Professional Learning Networks are all the rage with … um … people that are part of professional learning networks (PLN’s). Why? So Monday I’m attempting a “Pre - Skype” - Skype with Maryjo Chmielewski’s class...
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Thu, Nov 19 2009 9:00 PM
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Not there yet, but another step closer
We have had 30 laptops now for over a week, but they still haven’t been put on “the network” because they need to be tagged (inventory control) by the school district 1st, and only then can I make an appointment with IT to come out to...
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Thu, Nov 19 2009 7:30 PM
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Thanksgiving lesson ideas
I’m teaching 4th grade this year and so I can’t spend much time teaching about Thanksgiving. At least not as much as I did 2 years ago when I last taught 5th grade. 5th grade studies American history and so it is a natural year to teach the...
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Wed, Nov 18 2009 8:26 AM
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