Showing posts with label ISTE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ISTE. Show all posts
Aug 26, 2008
ISTE Second Life Webinar
Today I attended ISTE's webinar on Second Life by Peggy Sheehly. There were some great quotes that she shared that I wanted to hang onto. One was "As technology evolves literacy evolves". Another was a quote by Marc Prensky, "Connectivity is their birthright". Peggy also shared that her students didn't want tutorials on Second Life. She said, "Our kids today expect the interface to teach them". I also like what she shared about Paul Gee's work that these environments allow students to take risks without fear of repercussions.
May 5, 2008
Frameworks for the Future
Last week I went to Washington DC as part of a policy course I am taking in my doctoral degree at Pepperdine University. We visited a lot of public offices and non-profits during the week. I was struck by the number of times we were exposed to and spent time pouring over new frameworks and debating them.
At the Department of Labor, Gay Gilbert shared a map of future forces affecting education for 2006-2016. This map shows some of the drivers of change in our society and how that is playing out in families, communities, markets, education and tools and practices that are emerging in society.
Tim Magner, head of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education, shared a framework called School 2.0. The framework centers around a Learning Ecosystem Map . Mr. Magner envisions stakeholders in a school district physically cutting and laying out their own Ecosystem maps to help them in their strategic planning for technology. This process is not unlike what The Stephens Group does in its strategic planning processes for Information and Technology.
In our meeting with ISTE, Ana Balboa Gunthner, one of my classmates from Pepperdine, shared her vision that maybe instead of having NETS (National Technology Standards) it is time for GETS (Global Educational Technology Standards).
Allison Powell, the vice-President of NACOL (North American Council for Online Learning), and also a Pepperdine classmate from Cadre 10, talked with us about the standards they have developed for quality online courses and for quality online teaching.
Theresa Stanley, another Pepperdine classmate, set up a meeting with Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow and the Director of PFF's Center for Digital Media Freedom (CDMF), from the The Progress & Freedom Foundation. In a recent publication, Parental Controls & Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Methods, there was an interesting framework on page 88 showing Gregory Smith's 8 Step Plan to Protect Children from Online Risks that caught my attention.
I spent a lot of time thinking about these frameworks this week as well as collaborating on a few more for professional development for one-to-one computer programs with Jeff Lee, another Pepperdine classmate this week.
I think the reason we are seeing so many frameworks right now is because the upcoming Presidential election coupled with recent economic strains in the US in part due to globalization and technology allow space for and demand that education change. In one of our meetings someone stated, "We've reached a peak in our existing model for education. What is the next educational model?".
Frameworks are powerful tools for innovation. They allow leaders with vision for what education in the future could look like a way to map out an implementation plan of how to get there.
At the Department of Labor, Gay Gilbert shared a map of future forces affecting education for 2006-2016. This map shows some of the drivers of change in our society and how that is playing out in families, communities, markets, education and tools and practices that are emerging in society.
Tim Magner, head of Educational Technology for the US Department of Education, shared a framework called School 2.0. The framework centers around a Learning Ecosystem Map . Mr. Magner envisions stakeholders in a school district physically cutting and laying out their own Ecosystem maps to help them in their strategic planning for technology. This process is not unlike what The Stephens Group does in its strategic planning processes for Information and Technology.
In our meeting with ISTE, Ana Balboa Gunthner, one of my classmates from Pepperdine, shared her vision that maybe instead of having NETS (National Technology Standards) it is time for GETS (Global Educational Technology Standards).
Allison Powell, the vice-President of NACOL (North American Council for Online Learning), and also a Pepperdine classmate from Cadre 10, talked with us about the standards they have developed for quality online courses and for quality online teaching.
Theresa Stanley, another Pepperdine classmate, set up a meeting with Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow and the Director of PFF's Center for Digital Media Freedom (CDMF), from the The Progress & Freedom Foundation. In a recent publication, Parental Controls & Online Child Protection: A Survey of Tools and Methods, there was an interesting framework on page 88 showing Gregory Smith's 8 Step Plan to Protect Children from Online Risks that caught my attention.
I spent a lot of time thinking about these frameworks this week as well as collaborating on a few more for professional development for one-to-one computer programs with Jeff Lee, another Pepperdine classmate this week.
I think the reason we are seeing so many frameworks right now is because the upcoming Presidential election coupled with recent economic strains in the US in part due to globalization and technology allow space for and demand that education change. In one of our meetings someone stated, "We've reached a peak in our existing model for education. What is the next educational model?".
Frameworks are powerful tools for innovation. They allow leaders with vision for what education in the future could look like a way to map out an implementation plan of how to get there.
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