educating for the journey

No one wants advice, only collaboration.
~ John Steinbeck(1902 – 1968)

Well this blog is kind of morphing into a place for sharing ideas that will hopefully guide our WiredWednesday conversations.  It wasn’t the vision and it needs more time, but i just don’t have it right now.  I do want to share this though as it is one of the more powerful things i have seen recently:

Some parts i really found provocative:

• schools exist as a place to send kids while grown ups work
  • a teacher whose students don’t learn will not get fired; but one that allows their students to run around the city would.
• what will be the mark of a good teacher in 2050
• building intellectual alloys
• basic building blocks of Education in the 21st century
• participatory, personalize, post-national
• two million minutes
• writing
  • average writing assignment:  a paragraph to one page and length
• brain research in 2050
• if email is outdated; where does that put books and writing
• choosing which form is more/most appropriate?
  • exactly what Bill and i were promoting with our PBL initiative
• lifelong vs. k-12
• long term problems within a “short-term” game (politics)

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
- Charles Caleb Colton

The work that Johnny Lee has done with the Wii controller is simply amazing (see Johnny’s TED talk).  Equally amazing is this “how to” video created by a PT2 student about a project of Johnny’s that he did in Ms. Norman’s class:

thanks for all your hard work on this project PT2 students and Ms. Norman.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784), quoted in Boswell’s Life of Johnson

It is another long one; it is (in my humble opinion) very worth it.

thanks to “the bad Mark” for sharing this with me.