Yea, I have accepted a new position as technology specialist at the Peaslee School (K-5). It should be a lot of fun being back in an intense learning environment. I can't wait to get started. I'll be looking after the IT lab and the schools technical infrastructure while helping teachers and students to leverage technology towards improved learning skills. Long list of secondary activities. Usually this position includes web sites, photography and AV stuff, which are fun also. Looks like they have not used LOGO to introduce math and programming concepts so I'll be trying to develop some reusable curriculum assets for them as well.
love to learn, learn to love.....its a good day.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Braggin on our daughter Allyson
Hey our daughter Allyson, an educator in New Hampshire, was selected to be one of those representing the state to this summers educational summit in Washington DC. She is a peach and will advocate for the 'right stuff'. Proud daddy.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Mass "Race to the Top" proposal
The Massachusetts proposal (PDF) for a portion of the 4.35 billion funding
was listed on the US DOE page here
The PDF at the Federal site is unreadable, probably someones secretary scanned it badly...
the original back at the statehouse is much better
was listed on the US DOE page here
The PDF at the Federal site is unreadable, probably someones secretary scanned it badly...
the original back at the statehouse is much better
Seymour Papert
Just finished Seymour's book "The Children's Machine" and posted my notes on my Edu 21st page, see link over there --> . Lots of really good stuff that we should have evolved towards a lot faster.He wrote it in 1993, and here we are 17 years later with the fallout of "Leaving More Children Behind than Ever" , having followed on the heals of the earlier "America 2000".
Hopefully the new administration will sponsor more variation and less hot air than the last.
In the course of writing my notes I came across this wonderful talk given by Seymour in 1999 for the Diversity Task Force convened by Vice President Al Gore. Check it out...I love this guy.
Turns out he is working still in Maine with at risk youth ( similar to the institution I was working for earlier RFK Children's Action Corps ) (and whose school unfortunately now is without teachers for technology, music, art, media due to state budget cutbacks)
Hopefully the new administration will sponsor more variation and less hot air than the last.
In the course of writing my notes I came across this wonderful talk given by Seymour in 1999 for the Diversity Task Force convened by Vice President Al Gore. Check it out...I love this guy.
Turns out he is working still in Maine with at risk youth ( similar to the institution I was working for earlier RFK Children's Action Corps ) (and whose school unfortunately now is without teachers for technology, music, art, media due to state budget cutbacks)
Friday, January 01, 2010
Open Learning Networks
http://ineducation.ca/
excerpt about: articles and reviews of works that explore ideas in teacher education, as well as broader and more inclusive discussions in education. We envision works that augment the latitude and significance of the idea of education, while acknowledging the ubiquitous growth of the digital arts and sciences in the everyday practice of life and how that might (in)form notions of formal and informal education.
excerpt about: articles and reviews of works that explore ideas in teacher education, as well as broader and more inclusive discussions in education. We envision works that augment the latitude and significance of the idea of education, while acknowledging the ubiquitous growth of the digital arts and sciences in the everyday practice of life and how that might (in)form notions of formal and informal education.
the first article in the first issue, the case for Open Learning Networks, provides the rational and research behind the teaching style that I just blundered into, by intuition. I moved the RFK library pages into the cloud in 2007 and began student assignments in the cloud in the 2008 summer session, continuing that fall. The RFK infrastructure at Google persists to this day (unfortunately I left prior to full transfer to teachers). Some of the newer operating systems coming down the pike for netbooks (Chrome OS, Jolicloud, Moblinux, Android) will really lend themselves to this model. The article goes deeper into functional partitioning which would be needed to implement on any kind of scale.
Happy New Year...rocky
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