RESOURCES---BUILD THIS TOGETHER---SHARE LINKS, REFERENCES, EVENTS

[Connie Weber]

Across Study Groups, across Learning Groups, we've wanted to share and extend RESOURCES. So I'm just going to begin. We may find a format we prefer as we go along, but let's just start getting them accessible.

Make sure that you have permission to share the papers, etc. Get author's permission.

[Connie Weber]

Thanks, Daniel, it's always good to hear from you. Keep us informed as you can about how things are going. Yes, innovations of many type need funding.
Keep up your vastly important work; you are an inspiration to many.

[Connie Weber]

Chris Dede: "Emerging Influences of Information Technology on School Curriculum"

and plenty more excellent papers on educational technology by Chris Dede, all available in PDF form.

[Connie Weber]

MIT Media Lab Publications

In particular, Mitchel Resnick's papers

Seymour Papert's papers

[Ellen Pham]

Thank you, Connie, for adding this resource. It has depth- I am still on the first link! I'm bookmarking this page for reference.

One request- if you have experience with a particular site, and the time to do it, would you add a personal annotation to the link?

I'm not sure when I'll have something to add to this list, but sometimes it helps to keep going when we know someone is attending to the work we put out there : )

[Connie Weber]

Hi Ellen,

Yes, I should do that!

Networking is so interesting. In this case, what I wanted to do is start a themed "bank" of ideas all collected in a space. My metaphor: being under the sea, finding a particularly rich ecology of fish. The fish are swimming by in their glorious manner, so fast. They are so beautiful. I have to grab some of the main ones, put them in a living museum so others can see.. You'll have to help me work out the rest of the analogy. And sorry for the excuse, I'll try to get back to labeling the links or maybe others will give reactions under the forum that starts the link.

I've done the same thing under the group "Sustainability." There I'm trying to collect a bank of ideas for Problem-based Learning (or teaching about forces of Globalization). I'm creating a bank of complex interwoven multivariate problems. I actually use that space with students, allowing them to browse and select, to find the sort of problem that interests them.

But you are right, I should do more commenting on what it is I'm putting up! The ideas flow by so fast--I am a hunter, a collector, a connector. A little wild and vague at times!

[Connie Weber]

The Shelter Project
Teachers: Todd Elkin, Ariel roman, Arzu Mistry, Jackson Porretta

From the site hyperlinked above:

“Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.”

-Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25
The SHELTER PROJECT is a collaborative sequence of teaching and learning experiences involving teachers and students in Fremont California (USA), East Oakland California (USA), and Bangalore (India).
Together and separately we are engaging in a proactive inquiry about a variety of large themes and guiding questions.
Students in the 3 locations are examining the impact of their own and each others’ CONTEXTS, exploring ideas about SHELTER, FORM/FUNCTION/CONTENT and reflecting upon how what they DO, SAY, and MAKE as an ARTIST relates to their RESPONSIBILITIES AS CITIZENS OF THE WORLD.
This blog contains documentation of our PROCESS and INTERACTION."

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Check out this project, an exemplar for our times.

[Connie Weber]

A gold mine:

Digital Education --Antonia M. Battro and Percival J. Denham

From googling the article "Digital Skills, Globalization, and Education" by Antonia M. Battro, a chapter in Globalization: Culture and Education in the New Millennium."

[Jim Reese]

Hello, everyone--
I hope you've heard about the exciting conference my school is hosting in February:
http://www.casieonline.org/pz-wis/about.html

We're very excited that both Howard Gardner AND David Perkins will be there and giving plenary session talks.

We've teamed up with the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, who will host the first day of the conference.

Please try to come if you can.
Cheers,
Jim Reese

[Daniel Bassill]

Looks like a good conference. Have you considered a way to bring your conference participants, along with those who cannot come to DC for this event, online? I host a conference in Chicago and include an attendee list that enables people coming to the conference to see who else is coming, and to contact them to make arrangements to meet. I keep this up so people can stay connected in the months between the conference, when the work of putting the ideas shared at the event needs to be done.

The difficult part is getting people who come to face to face events, and spend considerable time and money to do so, to join together in on-line forums like Fireside, where there is virtually no cost, and a limited time investment. Yet there can be much more learning, interaction and relationship building.