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CAGT 2008: Technology and Community

Published on October 10, 2008, by in Uncategorized.

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Technology And Community

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Cell Phone Back Channel and Idea Network:

Audio Reflections:

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Topics and Links from the presentation:

  1. Make the Community Visible
  2. Make the Community Inclusive
  3. Make the Community Public
  4. Make the Community Always-On
  5. Make the Community Lasting
  6. Tending your community
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Online Learning and Web 2.0: OL Teach 2008 (Secondary)

Published on August 5, 2008, by in Uncategorized.
Online learning is not about computers, the internet, or learning from home. It is not about giving kids a different educational option, or even leveraging the power of digital natives. It is my belief that the goal of online learning is to make learning ubiquitous. It is about pushing our education to include everything, from the context of the everyday to the workflow of original thought. This presentation aims to explore this notion of ubiquitous learning. Please, push back at these ideas, it is the only way they will get any better.

The Presentation:

Secondary (OL Teach – Take 2)

The Collaborative Podcast:

The OL Teach Text Messages:

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The Backchannel and Moderated Discussion:

The Voicethread for Sharing Ideas:

The Links for further learning:
Preserve the learning links:

Creation as norm links:


Authenticity as expectation links:

Please feel free to leave comments or questions (video, audio, and text) on this blog post, you can also reach me by e-mail at ben@learningischange.com.
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Online Learning and Web 2.0: OL Teach 2008 (Elementary)

Published on August 4, 2008, by in Uncategorized.
Online learning is not about computers, the internet, or learning from home. It is not about giving kids a different educational option, or even leveraging the power of digital natives. It is my belief that the goal of online learning is to make learning ubiquitous. It is about pushing our education to include everything, from the context of the everyday to the workflow of original thought. This presentation aims to explore this notion of ubiquitous learning. Please, push back at these ideas, it is the only way they will get any better.

The Presentation:

Elementary OL Teach

The Collaborative Podcast:

The OL Teach Text Messages:

Get your own at TextMarks!

The Backchannel and Moderated Discussion:

The Voicethread for Sharing Ideas:

The Links for further learning:
Preserve the learning links:

Creation as norm links:


Authenticity as expectation links:

Please feel free to leave comments or questions (video, audio, and text) on this blog post, you can also reach me by e-mail at ben@learningischange.com.
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Working with Online Elementary Teachers

Published on January 30, 2008, by in Uncategorized.

Today I am working with elementary teachers who are writing courses for an online school. Whatever your stance on virtual schools, the most resistance is in the elementary sector (a totally subjective statement, by the way). Many of these teachers (who haven’t even started writing their curriculum) have had push-back from colleagues on the issue of kids’ social and developmental needs. But, when I asked the teachers at the beginning of the session why they wanted to be a part of this project, these are the reasons they gave:

    • Why should we limit the opportunities? There is no way for all students to benefit if we have a one-size-fits-all model.
    • There is something to be said for working with kids who may fall off if we aren’t there. The kids are already on the bleeding edge. We need to meet them there.
    • Students are not engaged by redundancy. They are engaged by novelty and by authenticity.
    • Survival isn’t for only the fittest, most savvy, or greatest players of the “education game.” It is for all.
    • If we aren’t worried about including the curriculum, the students, the pedagogy, the technology, or the authenticity that matters, what are we worried about?

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The Great Remix Debate

Published on December 18, 2007, by in Uncategorized.

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I give all of the credit for this podcast to my amazing students. They were the ones that kept a debate on intellectual property, remixing, and mash-ups going for nearly thirty minutes. They were the ones that came up with the amazing examples to support their points. They were also the ones to inspire many thoughts on creating rules for how we use content in the classroom. I am now convinced that each classroom of students should decide for themselves just what they want to be done with their content. Should teachers be able to use it for next year’s class? Should teachers remix their content into more polished work? We need to be asking the students to come up with what their own boundaries for intellectual property are, and we need to be teaching them where the boundaries are drawn already. I have decided to split this podcast up into about 40 chapters because that is how many different ideas were thrown around (mostly by different students). I have attached each student’s blog to the chapters in which they spoke. The one request I have is that you comment on this post and tell us which side won the debate. (Although, I’m sure my students wouldn’t mind if you commented on some of their blog posts either.)

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The Great Remix Debate

Published on March 28, 2007, by in Uncategorized.

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I give all of the credit for this podcast to my amazing students. They were the ones that kept a debate on intellectual property, remixing, and mash-ups going for nearly thirty minutes. They were the ones that came up with the amazing examples to support their points. They were also the ones to inspire many thoughts on creating rules for how we use content in the classroom.

I am now convinced that each classroom of students should decide for themselves just what they want to be done with their content. Should teachers be able to use it for next year’s class? Should teachers remix their content into more polished work? We need to be asking the students to come up with what their own boundaries for intellectual property are, and we need to be teaching them where the boundaries are drawn already.

I have decided to split this podcast up into about 40 chapters because that is how many different ideas were thrown around (mostly by different students). I have attached each student’s blog to the chapters in which they spoke. The one request I have is that you comment on this post and tell us which side won the debate. (Although, I’m sure my students wouldn’t mind if you commented on some of their blog posts either.)

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