February 14th, 2008
iTunes University
I am very proud to say that rich educational content for use at home, in classrooms and on the go are up on itunes University. We currently feature content for the Teaching & Learning Celebration and for WIDE ANGLE. We will be expanding this list soon.
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Who Are We Celebrating?
By Deborah Meier. --I remember the first time I went to a meeting called by the Carnegie Corporation -- to start the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS). I was shocked at the luxury -- a huge platter of shrimps, elegant meals, in an elegant hotel! I kept thinking—more money was spent on those appetizers and drinks than I have to spend on my whole school! But I grew to appreciate it. But not so much that we gave up having our own chintzy staff retreats, at children\'s camps, with outdoor toilets and bunk beds!
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What Is a PLC?
By Rick and Becky DuFour. --It has been interesting to observe the growing popularity of the term “professional learning community.” In fact, the term has become so commonplace and has been used so ambiguously to describe virtually any loose coupling of individuals who share a common interest in education, it is in danger of losing all meaning.
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Where It’s At
By David Reisman. --When I was in graduate school at Teachers College (a few years before the Web), Ernest Rothkopf introduced us to an interesting framework for thinking about the settings where education takes place, in the context of considering when educational technologies should be used -- he divided them up into informal settings like museums or public television stations (the “arcade”); formal educational settings like schools (“contract”); and training programs in the military and businesses (“closed”).
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Getting Global with Kindergarten and First Graders
By Kim Mullaney. --As the director of early and family literacy at Thirteen, my team works closely with families, childcare providers and early childhood educators. We spend our time working on the magic that happens when television is really used for learning -- and we help families navigate that special journey between discovery and exploration to participation and education. And sometimes, it means bringing what I learn at work directly to a very eager young fan in my own home.
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The 21st Century: What’s a school to do?
By Ronald Thorpe. --Whatever educators try to do, it never seems to be enough. And since schools have so many paymasters -- it was hard enough when it was local, state and federal levels of government, but today the list includes an array of private foundations, corporations, and even individuals -- schools of all sorts are trying to make decisions while getting pulled in myriad directions.
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MySpace vs. Facebook
By David Reisman. --My 15-year-old daughter Jenny had a Facebook account long before I signed up, and she sneered (well, maybe “sneered” is too strong a word -- scoffed?) at MySpace since a lot of MySpace “friends” are strangers with no real connections other than a few common interests -- still, I signed up for MySpace first, partly because it seemed like a nice way of keeping up with some of my relatives and old friends.
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Garden Spots
By Christopher Czajka. --Before we gear up for the Teaching & Learning Celebration, my department at Thirteen, the LAB (it stands for “Life After Broadcast”. . .we handle educational and community outreach) is embarking on what we’re calling “World Tour 2008.”
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The Lure of Learning
By Ronald Thorpe. --I'm not sure the world needs another blogger, but my colleagues here at Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21 have convinced me that the Teaching & Learning Celebration has become so robust and so interesting that there is easily a year's worth of conversation and contemplation in all that the conference holds. Also, they've reminded me that the restrictions of geography and tight budgets means that many more people can be part of this conference through this blog than can ever attend the event itself. With that in mind, here we go!
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