Learning is Change

I have become dissatisfied with talking about School 2.0 only among educators. It seems to be this feedback loop that creates a lot of noise, but in the end, really doesn’t create any massive change. So, I am proposing a change in tactics. We need to begin talking to anyone who has the time to listen about School 2.0. We need to show them artifacts of authentic learning so that they know just how effective it can be. We need to get outside of the blogosphere and podcast communities, and talk to the parents that don’t get it yet. Although “consciousness raising” is important amongst teachers, it really should be our only tactic in bring about a transformation in education. Most of this is why I will be starting up another podcast over at The Podcast Network. I am looking for educators and non-educators alike to interview, anyone who is willing to think critically about the shared vision of student-centered education. Please contact me for details.

• 00:00:00: Introduction to Busy Week
  Academy of Discovery Model

• 00:01:14: Blogging Class
  Blogging in the Classroom Presentation

• 00:02:16: The Podcast Network
  My Interview with Cameron Riley

• 00:04:47: The School 2.0 Movement

  The Discovery -Ism Project

• 00:06:48: Learning without Gatekeeping
• 00:09:04: Home vs. School 2.0
• 00:11:05: Plea for Interviews
  My e-mail address

• 00:12:49: Conclusion with info.
  The podcast blog

Core 1:

1. Who do you think the animals represent in a society?
   • Boxer
   • Clover
   • Benjamin
   • Muriel
   • Squealer
2. Read Chapter 5:
   • What does a societal shift look like?

Core 2:

1. How do you start a movement?
   1. Steps
      
   2. “You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he’s really sick and they won’t take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they’re both [idiots] and they won’t take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. They may think it’s an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day, walking in singin a bar of Alice’s Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.” -Arlo Guthrie
2. Work on your -Ism with a purpose.

Core 3:

1. Read about “gold.”
2. Why do we want to hold on to our “gold” for longer than we can?

Core 4:

1. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.
2. How does the concept of beauty function in your utopia? (What is beautiful according to your citizens?)

Cores 1-4:

• Guess how much of our Academy of Discovery budget was set aside for us at the meeting last night?

Core 1:

1. Should leaders have more privileges than followers? Why or why not?
2. Read chapter 4 in Animal Farm.
   • How does the farm change over time?
   • Can any society keep the passion and ideal of the first few days/years?
3. Work on your Utopias with a specific goal for your 15 minutes.

Core 2:

1. How do you promote the societal good of justice in your everyday life?
2. Work on your -Isms with a specific goal in mind.

Core 3:

1. If you could, would you change the way life works so that you would:
   • Remain a child forever
   • Be Born into adulthood
   • Slow down or speed up the transition from childhood to adulthood
2. Read the rest of the chapter:
   • What is gold?

Core 4:

1. Check out the front page!
   
2. What is the safeguard on corruption in your utopia? Can anyone get around it?
3. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.

Cores 1, 2, 4:

1. Watch Inquiring Minds Need to Know and introduce the Academy of Discovery:
   • What should we change before we go to the parent committee and ask for money?
   • What questions would you have after our presentation?
2. Work on your Blog or Wiki and submit a del.icio.us post for Sem2_Week13.

Core 3:

1. Why is your physical identity so valuable to you?
2. Do you think that one decision should affect you for the rest of your life?
3. Do you have an anti-hero that you look up to, like Johnny does to Dally?
4. What would you have picked up from the grocery store if you knew that you might have to hide out for a long time and you didn’t bring anything with you?
5. What would being a fugitive from the law be like?

Core 1:

1. What is the easiest way to hide corruption within a society?
2. Read Chapter 4 in Animal Farm.
3. Work on utopias.
   • Who in your utopia is corruptible?
   • Figure out your 7+ Commandments.

Core 2:

1. If this were your metaphor for life, how would you describe it?
2. Check-In with -Ism. How many projects do you have done (including audio essay)?
3. Work on -Ism with specific goals.

Core 3:

1.  What is the one thing that you have hidden from people, hoping that they would never find out about?
2. Read about Ponyboy and Johnny’s transformation.
   • Can you still be a greaser without the grease?
   • What are the essential parts of your identity?

Core 4:

1. How do you balance luxury vs. utility in your utopia?
2. Work on a part of your utopia that hasn’t gotten a lot of love yet:

   1. I. Origins

      II. Population and Demographics

      III. Culture, Social Customs, and Family Structure

      C. Arts and Entertainment:

      IV. Industry, Agriculture, and Geography

      V. Government

      VI. Infrastructure

      VII: Reaction to Society and Other Utopias (You may want to wait until you have finished your reaction novel in order to complete this section)

      IX. Unique Features of this Utopia

Core 1:

1. Creating interactivity on your wiki using sPresent.
2. Wiki work and troubleshooting.

Core 2:

1.  How was your -Ism shaped by the following events:
   • 9/11
   • The first time you got the wind knocked out of you.
   • Your first break-up (with a friend or boy/girlfriend).
   • Your first fight with your parents.
   • A time when you got mad at God or the universe.
   • A time when you thought things were unfair.
   • The first time you got made fun of.
   • [Insert a specific event that you think changed your outlook on the world].
2. Work on belief statement essays and sPresent interactive answers.

Core 3:

1. How do you resolve the dilemma of a fight without resorting to violence?
2. Read “The Good Part.”
   • When is self-defense not really self-defense?

Core 4:

1. What will you do with your Utopia once it is created?
2. Work on your Utopia with specific goals like:
   • Finishing a sPresent
   • Finishing the Origins (or another category)
   • Take a screenshot of your planet, flag, etc.

Core 1:

1. What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why?
2. Distilling your Utopian ideals into a set of 7 (or more) commandments:
   • What kinds of commandments did the Pigs paint on the barn?
   • What rules do you want everyone to follow in your utopia so that everyone can coexist.
3. Setting up a utopia e-vent!
4. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.

Core 2:

1. Enhancing your -Ism:
   • sPresent
2. Take a look at some Belief Statement Essays.
3. Work on your -Ism, with the specific goals in mind.

Core 3:

1. What is the difference between a problem and dilemma?
2. What are some problems in the story so far and what are some dilemmas?
3.  Look for them in finishing Chapter 3.

Core 4:

1. Setting up a Utopia e-vent!
2. Work on your Utopia with specific goals in mind.

Core 1:

1. Write-On: What is your anthem, and how has it persuaded you to be who you to be who you are?
2. Read and Discuss chapter two.

Core 2:

1. What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why?
2. The ultimate spam fighting tool: You.
3. Work on Belief Statement Essays.

Core 3:

1. Debate Question:
   • Solved: You should have more respect for women than men.
2. Are all problems created equal?
3. Chapter 3

Core 4:

1. What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why?
2. Check out Spresent.
3. Work on your Utopia project.

Cores 1, 2, and 4:

1. What is your Digital Legacy?
2. Work on your wiki edit that you will use for your weekly authentic, or blog for your weekly authentic (Sem2_Week12).
3. Post to del.icio.us

Core 3:

Outsiders Blogging:

• What do you think the difference between innocent and “not dirty” is?
• How do you think your intelligence level actually affects your friends?
• What does, “Things are rough all over” mean?
• What was the best time you ever had at a drive-in movie?
• What was the story that caused everyone to be speechless?