This is a presentation I did at Educon 2.1 in January 2009. See the agenda page on the conference wiki. http://tinyurl.com/d6cmjg
Look for "Catalytic Designs for Learning," Session 4: Sunday, 10:00 am - 11:30 pm
1. Catalytic Designs for Learning ------------------------------------------------------------ Dennis Richards ------------------------------------------------------------ EduCon 2.1 - January 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License innovation3.edublogs.org
2. How do you imagine students are thinking in their classes? Banner in the cafeteria - Science Leadership Academy, a public school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
3. law_kevin: http://tinyurl.com/d8l8nf Teaching must be rooted in how we naturally learn (igniting, engaging, challenging and inspiring students) and in ways that we naturally organize for sustainability. If understanding and acting on this statement could save the world, what would you do? after Stephanie Pace Marshall, The Power to Transform
4. If we dont speak for children, all of them, who will? “ Desperate Children Flee Zimbabwe, for Lives Just as Desolate,” NY Times, Barry BearakPublished: January 23, 2009 http://tinyurl.com/andd4p
5. Can one voice change the world, for good?* * Barack Obama Presidential Campaign T-Shirt
6. If you aren’t making mistakes, are you trying hard enough? gadl: http://tinyurl.com/b93e8b
8. Imagine what good wireless thinking could do for learning. When do you think we will be there? Sukanto Debnath http://tinyurl.com/amzaj9
9. Can living a “new story of learning” change the map and landscape of learning for children ... forever? * Hamed Saber: http://tinyurl.com/dj78lk * Stephanie Pace Marshall
10. Garry: http://tinyurl.com/dcbepd If poetry is the language of life,* is learning the language of the mind? * Bill Moyers, The Language of Life
11. This I believe: every child on the planet has a right to Kevin Steele: http://tinyurl.com/bytep8 one inspiring teacher each year, whatever it takes. Do you believe? What should you do about that?
13. Is hope never having to say it can’t be done? creativesam: http://tinyurl.com/d4xwmh
14. Catalytic Designs for Learning ------------------------------------------------------------ Dennis Richards ------------------------------------------------------------ EduCon 2.1 - January 25, 2009 ------------------------------------------------------------ Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike License innovation3.edublogs.org
Notes de l'éditeur
New York Times January 24, 2009Desperate Children Flee Zimbabwe, for Lives Just as BleakBy BARRY BEARAKMUSINA, South Africa — They bear the look of street urchins, their eyes on the prowl for useful scraps of garbage and their bodies covered in clothes no cleaner than a mechanic’s rags.Near midnight, these Zimbabwean children can be found sleeping outside almost anywhere in this border city. A 12-year-old girl named No Matter Hungwe, hunched beneath the reassuring exterior light of the post office, said it was hunger that had pushed her across the border alone.Her father is dead, and she wanted to help her mother and younger brothers by earning what she could here in South Africa — within certain limits, anyway. “Some men — men with cars — want to sleep with me,” she said, considering the upside against the down. “They have offered me 100 rand,” about $10.