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Learning to Change & Changing to Learn:
(5 min video)
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Keith Krueger:
CEO, Consortium for School Networking
US Dept of Commerce ranked 55 industry sectors by their level of IT intensiveness. Education was ranked number 55, the lowest, , below coal mining.
<but coal-mining is for-profit, schools aren't & lives depend on the technology used in coal-mining, education doesn't directly kill people, although I can produce a handfull of 7th graders who would say otherwise.>
Greg Whitby
Director of Schools, Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Parramatta, Australia
"Schools are like factories. It's about control & order."
Greg Black
CEO education.au limited, Australia
"Kids are having a much more stimulating environment outside of school"
Julie Evans
CEO, Project Tomorrow
"Kids are very rich content developers today through their social networking sites. They're big communicators through email, and instant messaging, and text messaging. And yet all of those things are banned from their schools."
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Stephen Heppell
CEO heppell.net LTD, UK
"turned off device is potentially a turned off child"
Yong Zhao
University Distinguished Professor & Executive Director
Confucius Institute, College of Educ., Michigian State Univ
"Technology is not a choice ... it has emerged a new completely new environment"
Greg Whitby
"it's about relationship, community, connectivity, access,"
Stephen Heppell
"It's a space where kids can reflect" ... "It's a GREAT world for learning"
Barbara S. Nielson
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"If I could remodel a classroom, I'm not sure it would be a bricks and mortar classroom"
Cheryl Lemke
CEO, Metiri Group
"Student is at the center & school is just one of the places that they learn, but they also learn through community, at home, through museums, In libraries &, of course, online"
Susan Patrick*
CEO, NACOL North American Council for Online Learning
"It's about providing the best quality teachers no matter where a student lives. And making those bridges"
Chris Dede
Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"it's wandering around the city with their cell phones and collecting data. things kids will be doing outside of school"
(what if texting actually got the kids focused and excited to a level we never saw before?)
Barbara S. Nielson
Might be the place where you come together to do joint projects...
Karen Greenwood Henke
Writer and Consultant, CoSN Board Member
Nimble Press
"We have a classroom system, when we could have a community system"
Susan Patrick*
It's about opening the door to NASA resources, to the labs being developed online at MIT, & connecting these students to the kinds of opportunities that will fundamentally shift, their academic, experience, and make them better prepared, not only for college, but for life."
Deborah Baker
Superintendent, Leroy CSD, NY
"You start with the techer. If I want my students to be making global connections, then I'm going to give the tools to my teachers first, and provide them with opportunities to connect with other teachers around the world. Or other teachers around the country.
break @ 3:10 in video...
Daniel Pink
Author, "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future"
Ken Kay
President, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, e-Luminate Group
Keith Krueger:
CEO, Consortium for School Networking
Greg Whitby
Director of Schools, Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Parramatta, Australia
Greg Black
CEO education.au limited, Australia
Julie Evans
CEO, Project Tomorrow
Stephen Heppell
CEO heppell.net LTD, UK
Yong Zhao
University Distinguished Professor & Executive Director
Confucius Institute, College of Educ., Michigian State Univ
Barbara S. Nielson
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Cheryl Lemke
CEO, Metiri Group
susan Patrick
CEO, NACOL North American Council for Online Learning
Chris Dede
Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Karen Greenwood Henke
Writer and Consultant, CoSN Board Member
Nimble Press
Deborah Baker
Superintendent, Leroy CSD, NY
Daniel Pink
Author, "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future"
Ken Kay
President, Partnership for 21st Century Skills, e-Luminate Group
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