Creating a Personal Learning Network
When I started teaching in the early 1990s, my professional resources consisted primarily of the teachers in my hallway, an occasional journal article placed in my mailbox by the principal, and attending the annual local teacher's conference. My how things have changed....
It is the System
There is desperation in the way in which we are trying to save our current education and health care systems but in light of the near collapse of our financial systems we should reconsider this. Perhaps the system is the problem. The Support Economy diagnoses managerial capitalism as the primary cause of the disconnect between corporations and markets (people). This form of capitalism robs us of our ability for self-determination:
Recommended reading: Cool Cat Teacher blog
To continue sharing pointers to the blogs I read on a regular basis, I thought for this week, I would cast the spotlight on Vicki Davis's award-winning Cool Cat Teacher blog.
Recommended reading: Downes on types of meaning
I know I recommended Stephen Downes's OLDaily blog just a couple of weeks back as part of my series on noteworthy blogs, but I don't want to restrict myself to a single course of action to the extent that I can't spontaneously respond to gems like this recent post on his Half an hour blog.
There is a crack ...
Is the industrial model of education finally cracking?
Donald Clark says:
My suspicion is that the web has done more for pedagogy in the last five years than the entire output of academic educational departments and other institutions in the last fifty years.
Keeping Current on Educational Web Resources
One of the major challenges facing educators and researchers is keeping current of the many new online resources becoming available every day. With so much trash being posted on the Internet it is very useful to find several quality "What's New" mailing lists, blogs, or websites to find out what other educators or librarians have discovered to be new quality online resources. The following is a listing of a few of my favorites I consulted to keep Academic Info current.
Academic Blogs
Although there are thousands of academic and educational blogs here are a few of my favorites:Digital Referencehttp://www.teachinglibrarian.org/weblog/blogger.html"News and views on chat reference, IM reference, email reference, VoIP reference, video reference, SMS reference, phone reference, roving reference, and face-to-face reference."
Internet Policy at School
Jacques Cool, a public school system educator, writes about a better way to develop an IT policy for schools. Jacques writes in French, so here is my very loose translation of his post.
Jacques found that the draft policy was too negative and restrictive, in that it focused on what users "shall not do". Jacques instead recommends that a policy on IT and using the Interenet should include:
Recommended reading: SocialTech
Josie Fraser is a hard person to encapsulate in a single sentence. She is passionate about learning, about technology, about social media... the list goes on. She combines all these passions in her blog: SocialTech. She is to be found in a great many social media/networking spaces, experimenting with all manner of emerging technologies.
Tags: Blogging, edublog awards, Josie Fraser, Kathy Sierra
Readicide
read-i-cide: noun, the systematic killing of the love of reading, often exacerbated by the inane, mind-numbing practices found in schools.
--Kelly Gallagher
academic infoCreated by: Mike Madin 1998 | Last updated: 02/09/2012