Come see me at TIES - Its Personal!

This year I will be presenting one pre-conference workshop, one poster session (which was originally going to be a community of interest session), and co-presenting two general sessions at the TIES Conference in Minneapolis, MN. The theme of the conference is "It's Personal! Transforming Pedagogy with Technology."

I intend with these sessions to raise the question of what the difference is between personAL and personalIZED since from the keynote speaker and featured speaker lists it seems no distinction was made. Hopefully this was done intentionally with hopes of invoking a debate. In fact, School of One founder Joel Rose is giving the opening keynote address. In case you are unfamiliar with School of One, it is a new school model which takes testing, student profiling, and differentiated instruction to new heights of programmed instruction letting an algorithm determine a student's educational journey.


"I love the algorithm." That line always gets me. Anyway, with the keynote on Monday being Joel Rose and the keynote on Tuesday speaking about video games in education I sense a strong grip of scientific management taking hold with this agenda. In Seymour Papert's (1993) book Mindstorms he said, "In most contemporary educational situations where children come into contact with computers the computer is used to put children through their paces, to provide exercises of an appropriate level of difficulty, to provide feedback, and to dispense information. The computer programming the child." I want to see children programming the computer. I want to see children in charge of their own learning. Problem is, programming children is easily marketable, teaching children to program is not.

So, here are the sessions I will be presenting. I hope to see you there:

• "I Didn't Know I Could Do That with a Cell Phone!" (Pre-conference Workshop) - TIES Conference, December 11, 2011, MPLS, MN
• "Citizen Journalism in the Classroom" (session) - TIES Conference, December 13, 2011, MPLS, MN
• "Web 2.0 and Social Constructivism" (poster session) - TIES Conference, December 12, 2011, MPLS, MN
• "The Power of Many: How (and Why) to Organize Your Own Unconference" (session) - TIES Conference, December 13, 2011, MPLS, MN

Also, on another note, I just had a lesson plan on Citizen Journalism published at EDTECH: Focus on K-12. Check it out and let me know what you think.

• Transforming Students into Citizen Journalists

Weekly Tech Tips: Citizen Journalism

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related links:

• The Fix is In: Social Mobilization and School Reform (Wiki still under heavy construction)
• Qik
• Posrerous
• iPadio

Video Festival:

• Everything is a Remix Part 2 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.

• IDEO Global Chain Reaction from IDEO Labs on Vimeo.

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Link Stew:

• When test scores seem too good to believe
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• In Fight for Space, Educator Takes On Charter Chain (NYTimes)
• 'Value-added' teacher evaluations: L.A. Unified tackles a tough formula (LATimes)
• Collective bargaining law published despite restraining order (Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel)
• Losing Our Way (NYTimes)
• Members stage “grade-in” at Deptford Mall (New Jersey Education Association)
• 5 myths about teachers that are distracting policymakers (Washington Post)
  
• Research supports style of learning (Adelaide Now)
• Something to Fight For by Deborah Meier (Education Week)
• Resourcing the PYP, MYP, & DP
• Virtual School Symposium 2011 Request for Proposals Now Open
• Arts and physical education in schools: Necessities or extras? (Sun Sentinel)
  

Blog Carnival:

• I’ve created a LinkedIn profile…. Now what? by Mary Huston on Lexical Linguist: I'm just geeky that way!
• Are We Ready to Stop Labeling Ourselves Digital Immigrants? by Pam Moran on A Space for Learning
• Why build a PLN by Kevin Honeycutt on What a PLN is...
• Am I Making Any Sense? by Gary Stager on Stager-to-Go
• ACE and Pearson Collaborate to Transform GED Test, Aligned with Common Core State Standards, Based on GED 21st Century Initiative by Susan Ohanian on Susan Ohanian .Org
• Student revolts about Standardized Exam by Kathryn Coffey on Real Teaching Means Real Learning
• Ugh. Classic Politics Now Extends to Social Networking in Education. by Steve Hargadon on Steve Hargadon
• Compare and contrast: using computers to improve math education by Sylvia Martinez on Generation YES Blog
• The illusion of standardization by Joe Bower on Cooperative Catalyst
• Education is life: a call for more fabulous failures by Kelly Tenkely on Dreams of Education
• Constructing Empathy by Ira Socol on SpeEdChange
  

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