Motivation, Discrimination, and Social Learning #TechEquity Breakout-Session

Today I will be facilitating a break-out discussion session at our Technology & Equity in Education Symposium at Hamline University. Our discussion will focus on this video:



Compare differences and similarities we face today with education and technology.

• Have things changed?
  
• What do the issues raised by these three men mean for educators?
  
• What do they mean for schools?

Any response to these questions in the comments below will be shared with the group and greatly appreciated.

Weekly Tech Tip - Self Organizing Learning Environments in the 3rd Grade (inspired by Sugata Mitra's TED Talk)

Weekly Tech Tip:



Related Links:

• Sugata Mitra's TED Talk: The Child-Driven Education
• Sugata Mitra's Newcastle University Faculty Website
• Sugata Mitra's Blog
• Sugata Mitra's Wiki

Video Festival:

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• Dr. Tae — Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning from Dr. Tae on Vimeo.

• REEP, KIPP and TFA Lecture Series from Jon Paul Estrada on Vimeo.

• Google For Educators on Prezi

• Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden trailer from lost people films on Vimeo.

Link Stew:

• Great Glogster resources with lots of examples
• What is the purpose of school survey by Bill Genereux
• Q&A: Diane Ravitch Skewers Every Education Reform Sacred Cow
• The Attention-Span Myth (NYTimes)
• The New Normal: Doing More with Less -- Secretary Arne Duncan's Remarks at the American Enterprise Institute
• 2010 Global Education Conference Session Recordings (Tons of Free Conference Session Recordings Here, TONS!)
• Skype in the classroom (beta) - A free directory that connects teachers and helps them use Skype to enrich students' educational experience.
• The Digital Access Project supports technology access and digital literacy efforts in the Twin Cities.
• EduCon 2.3 Philadelphia — January 28–30, 2011
• TweetTree - Great tool for monitoring your Twitterstream. Displays images and videos, not just links. Also shows replies to posts in your stream as a threaded discussion.
• MeetingWords: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing - Etherpad clone that supports up to 32 simultaneous collaborators.
  

Blog Carnival:

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Joe Bower on for the love of learning
• How I Planned a Successful Unconference in 6 hours - and You Can Too on ReadWriteHack
• What was school like 80 years ago? by Joe Bower on for the love of learning
• Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich by Henry A. Giroux on truthout
• Educators need learning advocacy, not technology advocacy by Scott McLeod on Dangerously Irrelevant
• Faux Nostalgia and the Damage it does to Education by Ira Socol on SpeEdChange
• Why? by Aaron Grimm on Grimm Adventures
• The Best Articles & Posts On Education Policy — 2010 by Larry Ferlazzo on Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
• Being a "tech" advocate is meaningless By Doug Johnson on The Blue Skunk
• When it comes to ed tech, we're cutting off our noses to spite our faces by Scott McLeod on Mind Dump
  

On November 22nd tons of education bloggers blogged their ideas for real education reform. Paula White has published a huge list of those who participated in this event here: You Want Ideas? We Have Ideas!

Weekly Tech Tip - Social Media & Social Constructivism

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Related Links:

• Twitter Book Club - Seymour Papert's "The Children's Machine" Chapter 1
• Twitter Book Club - John Taylor Gatto's "Dumbing Us Down: The hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling"
• The Real Disruptive Innovation

Link Stew:

• Personal Learning Networks By Will Richardson (2007)
  
• Story of Stuff, Full Version; How Things Work, About Stuff
• 7 Tips for Building Collaborative Learning Spaces

Retweetable Tweets:

Can You Copyright A Tweet? http://j.mp/aGBgeb and http://www.canyoucopyrightatweet.com/less than a minute ago via HootSuiteTweetSmarter
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Jon Becker shares a list of education researchers on Twitter:

@pcwoessner 10 to start: @mcleod, @SchlFinance101, @edjurist, @shermandorn, @mkbwsu, @courosa, @schwier, @gsiemens, @asbruckman, @ksquireless than a minute ago via TweetDeckJonathan Becker
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@pcwoessner there's also @WayneDLewis, @punyamishra, @marclamonthill, @chrisemdin, @dumilewis...I'm sure I'm missing some...less than a minute ago via TweetDeckJonathan Becker
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Being remixed is an honor...much like being quoted in a newspaper, a blog post, a podcast. #blc10less than a minute ago via TweetDeckJeff Utecht
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Blog Carnival:

• The Importance of Mobile Phones in Education Teenager Ethan Davids describes how essential his phone is to him. on ICT in Education

• Family education or homeschooling as a commons-based economy by Michel Bauwens on P2P Foundation

• Least Restrictive Environment By Chris Lehman on Practical Theory

• Beyond Gutenberg by Kelly Tenkely on Dreams of Education

• bandwagonesque: homophily, vuvuzelas, and the rhetoric of lists By Scott Schwister on Higher Edison

• Let kids use the Internet for non-school purposes By Doug Johnson on The Blue Skunk

• Web 3.0 By George Siemens on elearnspace