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Scary Thoughts & Some Possibilities

Scary Thoughts
Schools wound kids and adults. Our answer: more of the same.
Executive power over schools is expanding without checks and balances from teachers, parents, or students. Democracy is virtually extinct within schools outside of civics and government standards. It’s not impossible that scripted instruction and instructional designs from virtual and F2F content providers will [...]

¶ Posted 08 April 2010 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: #rea, #revolutioned, Ad-hoc schools, Charter schools, Collaborate with the competition, Democracy, Democratic education, DIY schools, Education innovation, Education reform, Home-schooling, Maker, Open-source education, Project-based learning, Service learning, Student entrepreneurship, The Race Back Home Initiative, Unschooling, Virtual schools, Wounded By School

It Is Decidely So

My sources say these predictions for 2010 are pretty sound. Network macronodes will ditch the hubs and spokes and explode into clouds as learners carry new learning with them from opportunity to opportunity.

Social reading
I want synched e-readers with color screens and robust tablet features for annotation and audio/visual mark-up, and I want them licensed [...]

¶ Posted 02 January 2010 † Chad § Blog post ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: 2010, Authentic learning, Authentic work, Book challenge policy, Career & Technical Education, e-Reader, Edmodo, Flexbook, Innovation, Inquiry by RSS, Instructional technology, Karin Perry, Laura Oldham, Magic 8-Ball, NCLB, Patacritical Demon, Predictions, Skype, Social media, Social reading, SpecLab, Teacher evaluation, Teacher pay, The Educational Optimists, TwitterKids of Tanzania, Website challenge policy