Rethinking Learning

Rethinking Learning

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Barbara Bray

be creative, innovate, take risks, unlearn to learn

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Being Innovative
By Barbara Bray January 10, 2008 -- 08:06 AM
Do you ever feel that you have already seen everything? Then I see what artists and animators can do with their computer and I�m amazed. Here�s what an animator (Alan Becker) created using flash and stick figures. Took him three months but he says it was worth it. Click below: Animator vs. Animation by alanbecker on deviant ART more...*

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How does your brain interpret what it reads?
By Barbara Bray December 30, 2007 -- 10:29 AM
I received this and found that I could read it. I was surprised. Let me know if you can read it. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno�t mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but ... more...

Comments: 2 Last Comment By Jim Siering January 8, 2008 -- 12:18 PM

The Unlearning Curve
By Barbara Bray December 8, 2007 -- 09:33 AM
Just read Will Richardson�s blog post "Unlearning Curve" and the 10 things to unlearn. I truncated his list so please go to his blog to read his full list. Some things from his list that you might want to think about: We need to unlearn that we are the sole content experts in the classroom... the premise that we know more than our kids... that every student needs to learn the same content and at the same pace.. our fear of putting ourselves and our students �out there� ... that we continually have to block and filter access to the sites and experiences they need our help to navigate. the ... more...

Comments: 1 Last Comment By Kathleen Scott Meske January 3, 2008 -- 11:31 AM

Some fun blabbering
By Barbara Bray December 5, 2007 -- 07:06 PM
How about Blabberizing your pictures? Over the holidays, you might want to have some fun. How about Blabberizing your pictures? Blabberize is a free program that lets your pictures talk. Upload a Picture for your Blabber Generally you want to pick a picture where you can see a person, animal, or picture of someone or something facing the camera with their mouth closed. As that has gives the best results but feel free to experiment! ... more...

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Social Networking or Self-Promotion
By Barbara Bray November 27, 2007 -- 09:00 AM
How many of you post to your blog regularly? Do you put your blog on Technorati or have RSS? Are people commenting on your posts? I read Steve Dembo�s post this morning Self-Promotion: Where do you draw the line? and it got me thinking. Why do many of the EdTech world blog? Since funding cycles have changed, the educational technology world is struggling. There is not as much money going around for many of the same people. So Web 2.0 tools (most free) give you an opportunity to publish, share, give your opinions, comment on others, link to and from, and even embed in your blog. Because the power ... more...

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Report says Americans are reading less
By Barbara Bray November 19, 2007 -- 07:34 AM
The National Endowment for the Arts study "To Read or Not to Read" was just released and found that an increasing number of adults in America have not even read one book in a year. [source] Some of the findings include: In 2002, only 52 percdent of Americans ages 18 to 24 read a book voluntarily, down from 59 percent in 1992. Money spent on books, adjusted for inflation, dropped 14 percent from 1985 to 2005 and has fallen dramatically since mid-1990s. The number ... more...

Comments: 2 Last Comment By Kathleen Scott Meske January 3, 2008 -- 11:34 AM

Future of the Global Student
By Barbara Bray November 11, 2007 -- 08:30 AM
Collaboration - always learning - rethinking how we learn and connect is important, especially today with instant information, everyone and anyone a journalist, actor, writer. So what does this mean for our students and for their future. Kim Cofino presented at the Teach IT conference in Singapore and shared her presentation on SlideShare. Curious what you think... \| View \| Upload your own more...

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Framing Change: providing a place and time to wonder
By Barbara Bray October 29, 2007 -- 09:21 AM
Ben Wilkoff, a 7th/8th grade Language Arts teacher at Cresthill Middle School in Colorado presented Obstacles to Opportunities �Starting From Scratch: Framing Change for All Stakeholders� presented at the K12 Online Conference. Ben designed a school model called The Academy of Discovery. He shares about framing change for schools, teachers, students, administrators, and parents. If you think of school in its present form, then the thought of any change is monumental and overwhelming. He explains very clearly that you need a new framework of pedagogy and his focus at Cresthill is a singular concept ... more...

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Importance of Critical Thinking Skills
By Barbara Bray October 14, 2007 -- 08:37 AM
I just read "Changing the way we think about learning" article in the SF Chronicle by Linda Hammond-Darling. One of the central lessons of No Child Left Behind is that if school sanctions are tied to test scores, the testing tail can wag the schooling dog. And a key problem for the United States is that most of our tests aren't measuring the kinds of 21st century skills we need students to acquire and that are at the core of curriculum and assessment in high-achieving countries. While a debate rages about whether our tests should be created at the national or state level, th... more...

Comments: 1 Last Comment By Cheryl Vitali October 17, 2007 -- 07:19 AM

What will learning look like in the future?
By Barbara Bray October 3, 2007 -- 07:59 AM
I was very lucky to be invited to participate in the first convening of Innovation for the KnowledgeWorks Foundation with a very prestigious group of people from around the country. One of the goals for this convening was to develop a new vision for Professional Learning Communities in the future. The questions that kept popping up was about the future of teaching and learning. One article we read was Why Teacher Networks (Can) Work by Tricia Niesz from Phi Delta Kappan where she talks about Communities of practice in which learning and teaching are interwoven in social networks, and someday ... more...

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