Trust in a Complex World @ CPS

Essential Question: How do we know information is true?

Link to today's after-school Learning and Technology workshop

Thoreau, Whitman & Mr. Fooster, Traveling on a Whim

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." ~Walt Whitman

Nicole Ouellette brought this beautiful book to my attention on Facebook. Check out her post on it at her blog, Breaking Even.

Tom and Craig at Google Talk

How is your school system helping students prepare for the future employment?

by Olga LaPlante

This is a very interesting set of data from Department of Labor statistics, which might have an especially significant effect on Maine employment, given the leading industries in the state. This might also be timely given the debate over going 1-to-1, it being either a wise investment or a big squander. Please read the post and share your views.
http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2009/04/immunizingyourgraduates.html

Chronology

Timeline at LIM Resources

Safety

How can we stay safe?

MLTI Spring Math Training

Brief Description of Session:

This workshop is designed to introduce participants to a range of online applets, tools, and web-based resources that utilize content centered technology application to support mathematics teaching and learning. The primary focus will be on the use of high quality yet freely available resources to support teaching and learning goals in mathematics at the middle and high school level including the use of the OER tool GeoGebra.

Additionally, the content will include the use of formative assessment and activities with interactive applets specific to areas of known student misconception and errors as informed by research. This is an interactive, hands-on workshop that engages participants with tools and activities that can be used directly with students.

Please bring your laptops!!

Facilitator: Pam Buffington

Times: 8:00 - 2:30

Date/Location:

• April 27 - Lewiston High School
  
• April 29 - Jefferson Village School
  
• May 15 - Wiscasset High School
  
• May 22 - William Cohen School
  
• June 4 - Noble High School

MISTM
MISTM Math Portal
Online Registration

"Pictures Sounds Numbers Words"

The 2009 MLTI Spring Teacher Leader Institute will take place during May 4-7, 2009, and be entirely online using Adobe Connect Web-Conferencing Software and other technologies. Proposals for presentations are being accepted now. More Information

The Emperor's New Clothes

Wikipedia: The Emperor's New Clothes

The Annotated Emperor's New Clothes

Tonight's Bedtime Story

Audio Story

Wikipedia: Transparency (behavior)

Will Richardson: "Transparency = Leadership"

Dean Shareski: "Advocating for More Transparency"

22nd Century Schooling

"Even those who talk about 21st-century schools invariably follow that phrase with a reference to “the need to compete in a global economy.” The goal isn’t excellence, in other words; it’s victory. Education is first and foremost about being first and foremost."

Read Alfie Kohn's full article title "When '21st-Century Schooling' Just Isn't Good Enough: A Modest Proposal" at Teacher. net . . . and here at District Administration.

Maine Connects with the World

LMS Links

"Decades" Links

"Inservice Insanity - One Year Later"

Wicked Decent Learning Episode 62


WDL Blog



Photo Credit

MICDL Website Up and Running

The Maine International Center for Digital Learning site is now open for business. Open up an account here.

Decades Research Project at Lewiston Middle School

I'm listening to the introduction to the LMS 7th grade language arts research project today. Teachers, Patricia Langlier and Susan Grondin, are enthusiastic and pushing the boundaries in developing this unit. I'll be working with their students tomorrow in developing research skills and in helping them to find specific websites that can help them. We'll also make use of stickies in taking notes and look at ways of saving time and energy in citing sources.

Decades at LIM Resources Wiki
MARVEL - Maine's Virtual Library
Research at Lim Resources Wiki
Finding and Organizing Internet Resources
Who(m) Do We Trust?
Lewiston Middle School Website

Arne Duncan on $100 Billion for Education

Technology Adoption: 4 Step Process

from Marc Prensky at Edutopia: Adopt and Adapt: Shaping Tech for the Classroom

1. Dabbling
2. Doing old things in old ways.
3. Doing old things in new ways.
4. Doing new things in new ways

Marc Prensky's Essential 21st Century Skills
Marc Prensky's Open Letter to the Obama Administration

MLTI 2009

Shayna Malyata

On Thursday I had the pleasure of meeting and working awhile with Shayna Malyata of Lewiston Middle School. It became immediately clear that she believes in connecting personally with students and finding ways to engage them in the learning process. As part of her work, we spent a few minutes looking at iMovie. Shayna already had an educational purpose and raw footage available. She only desired a crash course in editing . . . which is what we did. In my line of work as an integrator, that sequence is ideal: Just-in-time learning with a reason in mind for using a tool. See Grappling's Technology & Learning Spectrum.

Check out the links below to some of Shayna's work:

Kavango Connection

Lewiston Middle School Civil Rights Team

Memoirs for Change: The Lewiston-Auburn Memoirs Project (LAMP)

Memoirs for Change

Storytellers for Peace

Sun Journal: "LMS Students Share Stories As They Write Memoirs"

College Course Videos

Arne Duncan on Education Stimulus

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ~ George Orwell

Education Week Interview with Education Secretary Arne Duncan from Education Week on Vimeo.