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TOC 2012: Tim Carmody, "Changing Times, Changing Readers: Let's Start With Experience" - YouTube
Notes here by @tealtan:

"unusual contexts in writing / reading text

“In a hyperliterate society, the vast majority of reading is not consciously recognized as reading.”

“What readers expect is more important than what readers want.”

Bill Buxton: “every tool is the best at something and the worst at something else”

skills, path-dependency, learning effects

“…we actually like constraints once we're in them.”"

And notes from @litherland:

"11:40: “I do things like … just obsess about weird little details. So, for instance … like, how do you do text entry in a Netflix app on the Wii? You know? I think about this a lot.” Your many other talents notwithstanding, Tim, you may have missed your calling as a designer. /

18:30: “I think it’s a tragedy that we have not been able to figure out a good interface for pen and ink on reading devices.” Holy grail. My dream for years. I would give anything. I would give anything to be smart enough to figure this out."
design  reading  writing  journalism  history  timcarmody  toc2012  via:tealtan  constraints  billbuxton  bookfuturism  ebooks  stéphanemallarmé  paper  2012  media  mediarevolutions  sentencediagramming  advertising  photography  change  books  publishing  printing  modernism  context  interface  expectations  conventions  skills  skeumorphs  skeuomorph 
february 2012 by robertogreco
California Dreamin' | MetaFilter
"Undoubtedly libraries are a good thing. The access and training that we provide for technology isn't offered by any other public service (largely because public services are rapidly becoming a dirty word in this gilded age of decadence and austerity), and without our services it wouldn't be the end of the world, but it would be a significant dimming.

If you can take yourself out of your first world techie social media smart-shoes for a second then imagine this… [lengthy case study]

So that little melodrama right there is every minute of every day at the public library…The digital divide isn't just access, but also ability, and quality of information, , and the common dignity of having equity of participation in our increasingly digital culture."
policy  politics  society  participatory  digitalculture  budgetcuts  povertytrap  poverty  librarians  technology  california  survival  _learning  skills  access  informationaccess  information  digitaldivide  education  libraries 
february 2012 by robertogreco
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle on Vimeo
purpose  living  life  insight  doing  self-discovery  experience  modelessness  causes  craftsman  problemsolving  meaning  meaningmaking  specialization  skills  identity  rightandwrong  ideals  richardstallman  piaget  jeromebruner  alankay  dougengelbart  xeroxparc  terrycavanagh  larrytesler  activism  injustice  justice  morality  responsibility  animation  mediaconnection  teletype  computing  history  analogdesign  electronics  comparisons  data  space  understanding  search  visualization  time  braid  making  ideas  programming  2012  connection  discovery  coding  invention  creativity  principles  bretvictor  from delicious
february 2012 by robertogreco
Badges - MozillaWiki
"Today's learning happens everywhere, not just in the classroom. But it's often difficult to get credit for it.<br />
Mozilla and Peer 2 Peer University are working to solve this problem by developing an Open Badges infrastructure.  <br />
Our system will make it easy for education providers, web sites and other organizations to issue badges that give public recognition and validation for specific skills and achievements. <br />
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And provide an easy way for learners tomanage and display those badges across the web -- on their personal web site or resume, social networking profiles, job sites or just about anywhere.<br />
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The result: Open Badges will help learners everywhere unlock career and educational opportunities, and regonize skills that traditional resumes and transcripts often leave out."
education  learning  technology  games  online  gaming  gamification  badges  opensource  openbadges  recognition  achievement  credentials  skills  via:monikahardy  from delicious
july 2011 by robertogreco
Three Trends That Will Shape the Future of Curriculum | MindShift
1. Digital Delivery [explained]<br />
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2. Interest-driven: Though students typically have to wait until their third year of college to choose what they learn, the idea of K-12 education being tailored to students’ own interests is becoming more commonplace. Whether it’s through Japanese manga art, Lady Gaga, or the sport of curling, the idea is to grab students where their interests lie and build the curriculum around it.<br />
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The idea of learner-centered education might not be new — research from the 1990s shows that students’ interests is directly correlated to their achievement. But a growing movement is being propelled by the explosive growth in individualized learning technology that could feed it and we’re starting to see the outlines of how it could seep into the world of formal education…<br />
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3. Skills 2.0 [explained]"<br />
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[Related: http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-and-learning/ ]
education  curriculum  trends  technology  future  tcsnmy  lcproject  learner-centered  student-centered  teaching  schools  learning  criticalthinking  communication  innovation  collaboration  willrichardson  customization  democracy  digital  skills  content  projectbasedlearning  culture  from delicious
february 2011 by robertogreco
SpeEdChange: Toolbelt Theory for Everyone
"The only way to allow students to assemble this essential toolbelt for information and communication is to to throw open your classroom and let the world in. How will your students know which calendar works for them - the one on their phone, Google Calendar with SMS appointment texting, Microsoft Outlook, or any of a dozen paper systems unless you allow them to try them out? How will your students know whether they 'get' a novel better by listening to an audiobook, or reading it on paper, or using text-to-speech, if you don't let them experience all repeatedly and help them decide? Will their choice be the same when they are reading history texts? Math texts? Again, how will they know? How will they know which is the best way for them to write, by hand (either on paper or on a tablet system), by keyboard (and which keyboard), or by voice, if they do not get to try out all the kinds of writing they need to do with all these tools?"
tools  assistivetechnology  technology  education  accessibility  irasocol  onlinetoolkit  toolbelttheory  learning  tcsnmy  cv  teaching  unschooling  deschooling  onesizefitsall  individualization  individuality  whatworks  toolbelts  environment  skills  learningtolearn  2008  from delicious
december 2010 by robertogreco
7 Essential Skills You Didn't Learn in College | Magazine
"1. Statistical Literacy: Making sense of today’s data-driven world.<br />
2. Post-State Diplomacy: Power and politics, sans government.<br />
3. Remix Culture: Samples, mashups, and mixes.<br />
4. Applied Cognition: The neuroscience you need.<br />
5. Writing for New Forms: Self-expression in 140 characters.<br />
6. Waste Studies: Understanding end-to-end economics.<br />
7. Domestic Tech: How to use the world as your lab."
arts  culture  education  wired  learning  lifehacks  skills  unschooling  deschooling  statistics  literacy  post-statediplomacy  diplomacy  remix  remixculture  appliedcognition  cognition  neuroscience  writing  twitter  microblogging  waste  saulgriffith  fabbing  science  diy  make  making  rogerebert  nassimtaleb  davidkilcullen  robertrauschenberg  jillboltetaylor  brain  barryschwartz  jonahlehrer  robinsloan  alexismadrigal  newliberalarts  from delicious
october 2010 by robertogreco
Doors of Perception weblog: Traditional knowledge: the dilemmas of sharing
"traditional and tacit knowledge does not lend itself to being codified, organized by knowledge managers, and put into an encyclopedia. It is is socially-owned and used. Like flowers that wilt when cut and put in a vase, indigenous knowledge tends to degrade quickly when removed from its context...
johnthackara  curation  knowledge  libraries  skills  context  knowledgeecologies  taxonomy  categorization  expertise  sharing 
august 2010 by robertogreco
What We Can Learn: An Excerpt from Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? -- In These Times [Quote from page 2. Via: http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2010/07/sometimes-we-try-japanese-model-of-work.html]
"Why are kids in Germany paying [union] dues, voluntarily [and in increasing numbers]?
germany  japan  us  johndewey  education  citizenship  democracy  socialdemocracy  socialism  unions  organization  labor  rights  apprenticeships  skills  politics  vocational  self-interest 
july 2010 by robertogreco
Microsoft Education Competencies: All Competencies
"Individual Excellence: Building Effective Teams, Compassion...Humor, Integrity & Trust, Interpersonal Skill, Listening, Managing Relationships, Managing Vision & Purpose, Motivating Others, Negotiating, Personal Learning & Development, Valuing Diversity"

[via: http://stevemiranda.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/what-big-companies-like-microsoft-are-looking-for-in-job-applicants/ ]
microsoft  development  education  training  hr  standards  competency  competencies  leadership  21stcenturyskills  management  skills  ambiguity  qualities  tcsnmy  learning  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject  whatmatters  administration 
june 2010 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: Common Core -> New Tests -> Curriculum Aligned to Tests
"Hirsch doesn't seem to understand plan being implemented. There's no pretense of going from standards to curriculum to assessments of understanding of the curriculum. There are standards, there will be assessments of standards -- of enumerated standards, not Common Core or anyone else's commentary on standards, not of knowledge of recommended texts. There will be curriculum, textbooks, etc. aligned to assessments. There will be increasing emphasis on online assessment which is detached from rest of curriculum...There will be increasing use of regular diagnostic tests at higher grade levels for specific reading standards, e.g., this group needs to work on comparing structured poems to free verse, while this one works on analyzing how a dramatic production of a work departs from original text. There will be standards-based assessment, where standards are not "understandings," "skills," or "knowledge," but tasks.
tomhoffman  edhirsch  curriculum  commoncore  standards  standardizedtesting  assessment  2010  testing  tests  knowledge  skills  tasks  understanding 
april 2010 by robertogreco
Apprenticeship 2.0 Could Fuel 21st Century Learning | DMLcentral
"A number of educational theorists are advocating increased attention on teaching students skills, rather than merely focusing on their mastery of abstract content. Influential reports like Henry Jenkins, et al.'s "Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century" & the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project have outlined the skills that students need to be active participants in new media culture. As educators working with digital media, we need to begin to seriously think of our work as a form of apprenticeship, where we ask ourselves: what sorts of skills are we modeling for our students? And how are those skills preparing them for the future?
digitalhumanities  training  skills  teaching  henryjenkins  apprenticeships  memorization  rotelearning  schools  technology  tcsnmy 
march 2010 by robertogreco
Seth Godin’s “Linchpin,” excerpt 3 of 3 « Re-educate
“Leading is a skill, not a gift. You’re not born with it, you learn how. And schools can teach leadership as easily as they figured out how to teach compliance. Schools can teach us to be socially smart, to be open to connection, to understand the elements that build a tribe. While schools provide outlets for natural-born leaders, they don’t teach it. And leadership is now worth far more than compliance is.”
sethgodin  teaching  schools  leadership  tcsnmy  learning  skills  social  compliance  unschooling  deschooling  lcproject 
february 2010 by robertogreco
Leonardo da Vinci's resume
"From the Codex Atlanticus, this is a letter that Leonardo da Vinci wrote in 1482 to the Duke of Milan advertising his services as a "skilled contriver of instruments of war". From the translation:
leonardodavinci  kottke  cv  resumes  codexatlanticus  renaissance  self-promotion  skills  tcsnmy 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: Reverse Engineering [regarding: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2010/01/14/17hirsch-comm.h29.html]
"Alternately, E.D. Hirsch's proper response to any question about "standards" should be "I don't give a damn about standards. What's the curriculum?" He doesn't really want standards like Finland, which he praises in his piece -- their standards are exactly the kind of thing he hates, all about "skills and techniques in reading," pursuing the student's interests, etc. He may like the stuff other than standards, but basically he's just not into standards and really has nothing useful to say about them. Any more than I have anything useful to say about smartphones."
standards  finland  standardization  testing  assessment  edhirsch  tomhoffman  tcsnmy  skills  techniques  reading  education  curriculum 
january 2010 by robertogreco
Barbarians with Laptops - robertogreco {tumblr} [commenting on: http://beyond-school.org/2009/12/29/barbarians-with-laptops-an-unreasonable-fear/]
Hi Katie. Thank you for the mention over at Clay Burell's blog and thanks for all the thought provoking quotes and links. I’ve got a few thoughts directed to you in a comment that doesn't appear to have made it through Clay's comment filter (not surprising given the length). So, I put it together with my previous comment and posted it to my not-quite-a-blog on Tumblr.
comments  tcsnmy  laptops  1to1  learning  education  cv  clayburell  teaching  technology  content  skills  students  time 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Barbarians with Laptops: An Unreasonable Fear? at Beyond School [my comments here too: http://robertogreco.tumblr.com/post/309355692/barbarians-with-laptops]
"I’ll start with saying I’m still uncomfortable with the opportunity cost notion. As a history teacher — which to me means “preparation for informed citizenship” teacher — I’m not sure I want to sacrifice time that could be used learning and drawing conclusions from human history on the altar of failed web 2.0 experimentation. ... Whatever your subject matter, I’d love to see specific examples of digital tools and practices that, either through research-based evidence or your own direct observation, you think enhance the learning of content or the development of skills in the classroom."
comments  teaching  technology  1to1  laptops  education  clayburell  content  skills  learning  students  time  tcsnmy 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Healthier Testing Made Easy: The Idea of Authentic Assessment | Edutopia
"Assessment tasks must model and demand important real-world work. Focused and accountable teaching requires ongoing assessment of the core tasks that embody the aims of schooling: whether students can wisely transfer knowledge with understanding in simulations of complex adult intellectual tasks. Only by ensuring that the assessment system models such (genuine) performance will student achievement and teaching be improved over time. And only if that system holds all teachers responsible for results (as opposed to only those administering high-stakes testing in four of the twelve years of schooling) can it improve."
professionaldevelopment  performance  21stcenturyskills  assessment  tcsnmy  testing  education  edutopia  teaching  learning  skills 
december 2009 by robertogreco
21 Steps to 21st Century Learning by Bruce Dixon #ok1to1 » Moving at the Speed of Creativity
"the skills that are easiest to teach and test are also the ones that are easiest to digitize and outsource
education  teaching  laptops  1to1  learning  unschooling  deschooling  self-education  schools  tcsnmy  lcproject  wesleyfryer  technology  skills  criticalthinking  georgesiemens  stephenheppell  seymourpapert  alankay  uruguay  olpc  marcprensky  henryjenkins  planceibal 
december 2009 by robertogreco
Half an Hour: An Operating System for the Mind [Stephen Downes on the Core Knowledge "Challenge to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills"]
Two quotes (not the whole story): "When you teach children facts as facts, & do it through a process of study & drill, it doesn't occur to children to question whether or not those facts are true, appropriate, moral, egal, or anything else. Rote learning is a short circuit into the brain. It's direct programming. People who study & learn, that 2+2=4, know that 2+2=4, not because they understand the theory of mathematics, not because they have read Hilbert & understand formalism, or can refute Brouwer & reject intuitionism, but because they know (full stop) 2+2=4." ... "We are in a period of transition. We still to a great degree treat facts as things & of education as the acquisition of those things. But more and more, as our work, homes and lives become increasingly complex, we see this understanding becoming not only increasingly obsolete, but increasingly an impediment...if you simply follow the rules, do what you're told, do your job & stay out of trouble, you will be led to ruin."

[summary here: http://www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/2818 ]
knowledge  literacy  criticalthinking  skills  connectivism  education  stephendownes  programming  brainwashing  cognition  automatons  directinstruction  cv  tcsnmy  history  future  agency  activism  learning2.0  change  gamechanging  information  learning  truth  relevance  infooverload  filtering  unschooling  deschooling  psychology  brain  attention  mind  diversity  ict  pedagogy  e-learning  theory  elearning  21stcenturyskills  21stcenturylearning 
september 2009 by robertogreco
UptownMaker: 18 Essential Skills for a Maker
fabrication  make  diy  geek  edg  electronics  hacks  making  skills  howto  lists 
august 2009 by robertogreco
Do You Have These Core Human Skills? [via: http://www.kottke.org/09/07/core-human-skills]
"If you’re interested in improving the quality of your life and work, there are the 12 primary areas of “Core Human Skill” you should focus on developing…Information-Assimilation...Writing...Reading...Speaking...Mathematics...Decision-Making...Rapport...Conflict-Resolution...Scenario-Generation...Planning...Self-Awareness...Interrelation...Skill Acquisition"
skills  learning  education  life  selfimprovement  lifehacks  careers  curriculum  tcsnmy 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Common Core » The Partnership for 19th Century Skills [via: http://nycpublicschoolparents.blogspot.com/2009/07/importance-of-19th-century-skills.html]
"love of learning...pursuit of knowledge...ability to think for oneself (individualism)...work alone (initiative)...stand alone against crowd (courage)...work persistently at difficult task until finished (industriousness/self-discipline)...think through consequences of actions on others (respect for others)...consider consequences of actions on one’s well-being (self-respect)...recognition of higher ends than self-interest (honor)...ability to comport oneself appropriately in all situations (dignity)...recognition that civilized society requires certain kinds of behavior by individuals & groups (good manners/civility)...ability to believe in principles larger than own self-interest (idealism)...willingness to ask questions when puzzled (curiosity)...readiness to dream about other worlds, other ways of doing things (imagination)...ability to believe that one can improve one’s life & lives of others (optimism)...to speak well & write grammatically using standard English (communication)"
dianeravitch  learning  education  schools  teaching  children  21stcenturyskills  values  skills  curriculum  tcsnmy  glvo 
july 2009 by robertogreco
Finland: It’s Not Just For Reindeer Anymore. | The Line [Finnish standards, in English, are here: http://www.oph.fi/english/page.asp?path=447,27598,37840,72101,72105 AND http://www.oph.fi/english/SubPage.asp?path=447,27598,37840]
"need & desire of students for life-long learning must be reinforced. Cooperation, interaction, communication skills...different forms of collaborative learning...abilities to recognize & deal w/ ethical issues involving communities & individuals...recognize personal uniqueness...stimulate [them] to engage in artistic activities, participate in artistic & cultural life & adopt lifestyles that promote health & well-being...capable of facing challenges presented by changing world in flexible manner, be familiar w/ means of influence & possess will & courage to take action...create prerequisites for experiencing inclusion, reciprocal support & justice...important sources of joy in life...learn how to adapt to conditions of nature & limits set by global sustainability...reinforce students’ positive cultural identity & knowledge of cultures. Technology is based on knowledge of laws of nature...observe & critically analyze relationship btwn world as described by media & reality."
finland  curriculum  well-being  tcsnmy  education  learning  schools  skills  teaching  lifelonglearning  lifelong  ethics  community  communities  interaction  communication  lifestyle  change  flexibility  culture  arts  media  perception  criticalthinking  via:cburell 
june 2009 by robertogreco
Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soul Craft. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine [see also: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html?pagewanted=all]
"When Matthew Crawford finished his doctorate in political philosophy at the University of Chicago, he took a job at a Washington think tank. "I was always tired," he writes, "and honestly could not see the rationale for my being paid at all." He quit after five months and started doing motorcycle repair in a decaying factory in Richmond, Va. This journey from philosopher manqué to philosopher-mechanic is the arc of his new book, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work. ... maybe, five years from now, when they [graduates] can't understand why their high-paying jobs at Micron Consulting seem pointless and enervating, Crawford's writing will show them a way forward"
books  work  careers  well-being  cubicles  economics  mechanics  philosophy  meaning  education  skills  life  happiness  cv  learning  macroeconomics  matthewcrawford 
may 2009 by robertogreco
The importance of stupidity in scientific research -- Schwartz 121 (11): 1771 -- Journal of Cell Science
"Productive stupidity means being ignorant by choice. Focusing on important questions puts us in the awkward position of being ignorant. One of the beautiful things about science is that it allows us to bumble along, getting it wrong time after time, and feel perfectly fine as long as we learn something each time. No doubt, this can be difficult for students who are accustomed to getting the answers right. No doubt, reasonable levels of confidence and emotional resilience help, but I think scientific education might do more to ease what is a very big transition: from learning what other people once discovered to making your own discoveries. The more comfortable we become with being stupid, the deeper we will wade into the unknown and the more likely we are to make big discoveries."
science  methodology  agnotology  education  learning  academia  thinking  research  skills  creativity  philosophy  motivation  gradschool  phd  via:migurski 
march 2009 by robertogreco
When 21st-Century Schooling Just Isn't Good Enough [via: http://education.change.org/blog/view/standardized_incoherence]
"One last point. We will of course continue to talk earnestly about the need for a curriculum that features “critical thinking” skills – by which we mean the specific proficiencies acceptable to CEOs. But you will appreciate the need to delicately discourage real critical thinking on the part of students, since this might lead them to pose inconvenient questions about the entire enterprise and the ideology on which it’s based. There’s certainly no room for that in the global competitive economy of the future. Or the present."
alfiekohn  snark  21stcenturyskills  schools  education  economics  21stcentury  competitiveness  satire  skills  humor  tcsnmy 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Tuttle SVC: Retention
"the retention issues Dan isolates here are in my observation the force that bends teachers in a more progressive direction over a long career (noting that inertia is generally very, very strong in teaching practice). You get down the process of navigating most of your kids through the courses you're assigned to teach, everything seems fine, then at some point you realize it doesn't really stick, and small tweaks don't help. This is when you start understanding how important "less is more" is, question the balance between covering content and things like "habits of mind," see how interdisciplinary work can reinforce and recontextualize important concepts, etc., etc."
education  teaching  retention  philosophy  progressive  assessment  tcsnmy  cv  content  skills  students  learning  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling 
february 2009 by robertogreco
Education for the 21st Century: Balancing Content Knowledge with Skills | Britannica Blog
"Clarion calls for more attention to 21st-century skills brings to mind a familiar pattern in the history of education: pendulum swings between an emphasis on process (analysis, critical thinking, cooperative learning) which fosters concern that students lack knowledge and generates a back-to-basics movement that emphasizes content, which fosters concern that student are merely parroting facts with no idea of how to use their knowledge, and so on. In calmer moments, everyone agrees that students must have both content knowledge and practice in using it, but one or the other tends to get lost as the emphasis sweeps to the other extreme. To watch a successful balancing act, keep an eye on Massachusetts."
21stcenturyskills  via:hrheingold  education  literacy  knowledge  cognition  balance  learning  tcsnmy  content  skills  contentvsskills  trends 
december 2008 by robertogreco
Education Sector: Research and Reports: Measuring Skills for the 21st Century
"New assessments like the CWRA, however, illustrate that the skills that really matter for the 21st century—the ability to think creatively and to evaluate and analyze information—can be measured accurately and in a common and comparable way. These emergent models also demonstrate the potential to measure these complex thinking skills at the same time that we measure a student's mastery of core content or basic skills and knowledge. There is, then, no need for more tests to measure advanced skills. Rather, there is a need for better tests that measure more of the skills students' need to succeed today."
cwra  assessment  21stcenturyskills  evaluation  education  technology  future  accountability  skills  research  change  reform  testing  nclb  via:cburell 
november 2008 by robertogreco
Note-taking: A fundamental skill of the independent learner [via: http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=46478]
"Yet referring to my original question again, how many schools actually teach students to do effective note-taking? Note-taking is a basic skill that everyone needs if he is to be able to learn effectively. Through effective note-taking, the student learns to make decisions about what is important about th learning that he is undergoing. Effective note-taking implies that a lot of thinking is done by the student to help him sort out the relevant from the irrelevant and to get the information into some organized and effective structure. A student will also be a very much more active learner if he makes his own notes. Independent learners need to be active learners, in fact they have to be pro-active about their learning."
notetaking  classideas  tcsnmy  learning  skills  understanding  education  pedagogy 
september 2008 by robertogreco
Official Google Blog: Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning
"At highest level...looking for non-routine problem-solving skills...primarily look for...analytical reasoning...communication skills...willingness to experiment...team players...passion & leadership...Learning, it turns out, is a lifelong major."
google  education  learning  careers  work  collaboration  problemsolving  curriculum  creativity  leadership  jobs  skills  professionaldevelopment  assessment  lcproject  management  innovation 
july 2008 by robertogreco
Conceptual Trends and Current Topics - Unthinkable Futures - "Believing in the improbable is quickly becoming a survival skill."
List of outrageous (for then, not all now) scenarios imagined by Kevin Kelly & Brian Eno in 1993 including several some school related: "American education works" "Schools abandon attempt to teach 3 Rs" "Schools completely abandon divisions based on age"
predictions  blackswans  nassimtaleb  kevinkelly  brianeno  future  futurism  gamechanging  flexibility  adaptability  survival  education  schools  learning  games  play  human  society  politics  history  technology  children  parenting  skills  teaching  classideas  lcproject  change 
june 2008 by robertogreco
Rob Stafford: Five Things Students Really Should Know Before They Get To College - Living on The Huffington Post
"ability to listen; ability to read for comprehension; ability to speak, spontaneously, specifically, and with concrete examples; ability to write down what they just said above, and add a parenthetical citation; understand you still can learn"
education  life  skills  learning  students  unschooling  deschooling  curriculum 
june 2008 by robertogreco
tutpup - play, compete, learn
"Our aim is to provide simple, fun, competitive games that help children learn and gain confidence with Maths, English and other key skills and knowledge."
math  games  spelling  literacy  english  competition  online  learning  practice  children  teaching  skills  elementary  education  reading  puzzles 
june 2008 by robertogreco
URGENT: 21st Century Skills for Educators (and Others) First ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
""how can we talk seriously about 21st Century skills for kids if we're not talking 21st CS for educators first?"...exactly why I have been much more interested in teaching people about personal learning and how to be a good learner"
stephendownes  willrichardson  technology  schools  internet  ict  learning  personallearning  online  socialnetworks  skills  leadership  change  reform  teaching 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Obsolete Skills: Main/Home Page
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technology  obsolescence  culture  skills  history  work  lists  wikis 
march 2008 by robertogreco
Teens not so cyber-obsessed after all - but they're more social than oldsters [more digital native clarification]
"research...challenges conventional assumptions...about technological sophistication of teenagers...spend far less time online than adults...very limited number of activities...attitudes surprisingly unsophisticated"
digitalnatives  technology  online  internet  teens  youth  web  social  socialsoftware  networks  privacy  security  skills  blogs  myspace  facebook 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Obsolete Skills: Skills/Skills
history  technology  change  culture  society  norms  knowledge  obsolescence  nostalgia  skills  retro 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Coroflot's Creative Seeds Blog: Questioning the Cult of the Sketch
"With few exceptions, when book or exhibit highlights great product design...sketches associated with them are brought out sparingly...partly because design...realm of general public awareness...also because a lot of them aren't that good."
design  sketching  drawing  skills 
february 2008 by robertogreco
Employers want new way to judge graduates beyond tests, grades - USATODAY.com
"Forget transcripts, multiple-choice tests or institutional scores. The surveyed business leaders want faculty assessment of internships, senior projects or community-based work."
assessment  education  skills  colleges  universities  testing  jobs  work 
january 2008 by robertogreco
russell davies: reskilling for an age of things
"I suspect it's my unconscious telling me that I'm not equipped for the world we're going to be living in. My core skill is probably using PowerPoint to persuade people and businesses to do their advertising slightly differently. That's an increasingly ab
learning  skills  russelldavies  future  things  objects  make  diy  gardening  powerpoint  change  adaptation  parenting  soldering  fabrication  gamechanging 
january 2008 by robertogreco
Half an Hour: Things You Really Need to Learn [also here: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/09/11/how_to_be_successful_stephen.htm]
"How to predict consequences; read; distinguish truth from fiction; empathize; be creative; communicate clearly; learn; stay healthy; value yourself; live meaningfully" - resonse to Guy Kawasaki's 'ten things you should learn this school year'
stephendownes  advice  learning  lessons  life  philosophy  perspective  skills  pedagogy  teaching  education  psychology  creativity  happiness  lifehacks  self  schools  survival  success  strategy  howto  productivity  management  gtd  self-improvement  homeschool  unschooling  deschooling 
january 2008 by robertogreco
dy/dan » Blog Archive » Sleep-Drunk Commentary
"Storytelling is the skill. Everything else is just its instrument."`
storytelling  learning  education  skills  schools  teaching  design  communication  lcproject  marketing  technology  danmeyer 
january 2008 by robertogreco
The Top 5 Reasons to Be a Jack of All Trades | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
*more fun, in most serious existential sense *Diversity of intellectual playgrounds breeds confidence, not fear of unknown *Boredom is failure *In world of dogmatic specialists, generalist runs show *Jack of all trades, master of none = artificial pairing
generalists  entrepreneurship  confidence  diversity  specialization  jobs  learning  life  skills  philosophy  perspective  careers  work 
december 2007 by robertogreco
HobbyPrincess: Draft Craft Manifesto
"I’ve been trying to pin down what is driving the increasing popularity of crafting for a while now. This is what I’ve got so far"
activism  crafts  craft  diy  manifestos  making  make  sustainability  society  skills  selfpublishing  hobbies  hacks  hacking  community  gadgets  fun  gamechanging  trends  interaction  opensource  longtail  glvo  build  design  culture  creativity  create  howto 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Ten things holding back tech - ZDNet UK
"1. Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop 2. Operator lock-in 3. Input methods 4. Battery life 5. The mania for speed 6. Intellectual property law 7. Skills inequalities 8. Web 2.0 9. National interests 10. The current lack of global wars and/or disaste
future  innovation  technology  trends  progress  information  development  change  microsoft  speed  input  batteries  ip  skills  web2.0  disasters  war  twitter  skype  facebook  leapfrogging  qwerty 
november 2007 by robertogreco
apophenia: my long lost handwriting
"My handwriting skills have decayed. My ability to communicate without editing has decayed. My patience for creating text at a rate slower than I think has decayed. Typing is fast, handwriting is slow. So is handwriting all that important?"
danahboyd  handwriting  penmanship  skills  technology  education  internet  typing  keyboarding 
november 2007 by robertogreco
How to Save the World - The Future of Education: A Conversation with Rob Paterson
'I think we have a complete mismatch between the education establishment and the kind of people we will need to get through peak oil, overpopulation, all those kind of things."
education  learning  future  schools  apprenticeships  children  students  deschooling  unschooling  johnholt  homeschool  society  lcproject  technology  knowledge  skills  business  colleges  universities  military  organizations  credentials  testing  social  socialnetworks  networks  learningnetworks  boys  peakoil  overpopulation 
november 2007 by robertogreco
Majors for high-schoolers aim to focus learning | csmonitor.com
"More states are requiring 'career pathways' to lower dropout rates and engage students better."
schools  curriculum  highschool  students  careers  education  learning  skills  change  reform 
october 2007 by robertogreco
blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
"Trying to plan your career is an exercise in futility that will only serve to frustrate you, and to blind you to the really significant opportunities that life will throw your way."
careers  skills  life  work  employment  tips  management  jobs  advice  risk  risktaking 
october 2007 by robertogreco
blog.pmarca.com: The Pmarca Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education
"This post discusses skills acquisition throughout your lifetime, including your formal education. So I will start with college and move on from there."
education  colleges  universities  careers  skills  life  work  employment  tips  management  jobs 
october 2007 by robertogreco
eSchool News online - Parents, kids don't see need for math, science skills
"Report reveals a disconnect between what policy makers believe is important for students--and what parents and kids think they need for themselves"
education  learning  math  science  parenting  children  schools  curriculum  skills  us 
september 2007 by robertogreco
27 Skills Your Child Needs to Know That She’s Not Getting In School | zen habits
"What follows is a basic curriculum in life that a child should know before reaching adulthood. There will probably be other skills you can add to this list, but at least it’s a starting point."
adolescence  awareness  childcare  children  parenting  childhood  education  learning  lessons  life  lifehacks  lifestyle  skills  social  success  schools  money 
august 2007 by robertogreco
Studio Schools | Launchpad
"The idea of a studio school hangs on the central feature of a series of operating businesses run by the students themselves. As small schools closely linked to particular industries, participant numbers would be capped at 300 14–19 year olds per school
schools  learning  innovation  education  curriculum  alternative  lcproject  schooldesign  skills  practical 
july 2007 by robertogreco
Artichoke: Bring out your sheep bladders the “key competencies” have arrived.
"Hijacking Taleb’s interpretation it seems entirely plausible that that the few “life long learners” amongst us are mostly a product of happenstance, of luck and nothing to do with the key competencies."
learning  schools  competencies  education  policy  change  reform  human  nature  humannature  nassimtaleb  habits  behavior  skills  attitudes  standards  blackswans 
july 2007 by robertogreco
Needed Skills for New Media ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
play, multitasking, networking redifined
skills  play  multitasking  networking  future  learning  media  education  stephendownes 
june 2007 by robertogreco
Weblogg-ed » Bigger Challenges
"moving away from school reform conversation...not so interested in figuring out what School 2.0 means/is...just looking at my own kids and asking what are the skills and literacies that they are going to need...and what’s the best way to help them acquire them."
reform  change  schools  education  homeschool  future  children  yearoff  technology  learning  skills  lcproject  larrylessig  cv  gamechanging 
june 2007 by robertogreco
Life-Long Computer Skills (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
"Schools should teach deep, strategic computer insights that can't be learned from reading a manual."
children  schools  teaching  computers  concepts  learning  globalization  jobs  lifelong  curriculum  education  technology  skills 
february 2007 by robertogreco
training kids with skills for participatory culture
"Our goals should be to encourage kids to develop the skills, knowledge, ethical framework, and self confidence needed to be full participants in the cultural changes which are taking place in response to the influx of new media technologies."
collaboration  culture  curriculum  education  future  literacy  media  creativecommons  networks  participatory  skills  teaching  technology  thinking  training  students  learning  publishing  creativity  ethics  online  internet  video  photography  writing  literature  social  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  schooldesign  alternative  lcproject 
january 2007 by robertogreco
Christopher D. Sessums :: Weblog :: Skills for 21st Century Learners: Preparing ourselves for participatory culture
"a set of preliminary and emerging skill sets that they feel “kids” need in order to be full participants in the new media ecology"
collaboration  culture  curriculum  education  future  literacy  media  creativecommons  networks  participatory  skills  teaching  technology  thinking  training  students  learning  publishing  creativity  ethics  online  internet  video  photography  writing  literature  social  socialsoftware  socialnetworks  schooldesign  alternative  lcproject 
january 2007 by robertogreco
ReadWriteThink
curriculum  english  language  literacy  reading  resources  skills  teaching  tools  writing  free  web  technology  interactive  schools  education  learning 
october 2006 by robertogreco
Suddenly, vocational training back in vogue | csmonitor.com
"Enrollment soars in 'career technical ed,' as demand grows for workers with specific skills."
education  learning  technical  colleges  universities  students  economics  skills  vocational  schools 
october 2006 by robertogreco

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