Posted in Edutech on Nov 29th, 2005 1 Comment »
Lynn, the Huron Heights literacy facilitator came into the Community Resource & Learning Room today and we had a great talk about what I am doing and what she is doing regarding improving literacy at Huron Heights. I started sending her an e-mail with some links, then thought a blog post would be more appropos.
She [...]
Posted in Edutech, Learning Landscape on Nov 27th, 2005 Comments Off
I finally heard from a Federal govenrment department that a grant that I (on behalf of my organization) submitted 15 months ago has cleared the last review hurdle and that the “cheque is in the mail”. This is great news for the Community Resource & Learning Room as if gives us the means to continue [...]
Posted in Edutech on Nov 18th, 2005 Comments Off
This is the description found on the York Region District School Board web site of the the Quest Conference held November 15, 16, 17 at the Sheraton Hotel in Richmond Hill.
“The Quest For Communities That Work: Sustaining Student Improvement” Conference
Educators are increasingly aware of the importance of building community capacity as [...]
Posted in Edutech on Nov 17th, 2005 2 Comments »
Reading Gardner Writes (Gardner Campbell) the Explaining Voice got at those moments when you are expressing yourself in such a clear way and your very words are making the ideas real and tangible not ony to your listerner but coming alive as you speak was extemely meaningful to me. I never read anything that captured [...]
Posted in Edutech on Nov 12th, 2005 Comments Off
growing up in a culture of fear: from Columbine to banning of MySpace - What a great post from Danah Boyd
She has written clearly and acutely on the suppression and control of youth culture by media and our societel structures (school, business, malls etc). Here is an excerpt from her Apophenia blog.
I’m tired [...]
I asked my mother, “do you think Rosemary would volunteer with our youth mapping team”? She asked me what would she do. I told her that Rosemary would hang out at the planning meetings, tell stories about her life, work with them on their community mapping projects and help me keep things moving forward.
Well she [...]
Posted in Edutech on Nov 8th, 2005 Comments Off
From E-School News Online - an online survey that is reaching 250,000 K-12 students and teachers across the United States. I didn’t realize the that the US was tracking the use of ICT in schools so closely. I am heartened that the questions include issues related to natural disasters, disease, global poverty, homeslessness and more. [...]
Posted in Edutech on Nov 6th, 2005 5 Comments »
I had an interesting time with a group of students from the alt ed program in my school. These students were in the grade 9-12 range but firmly immersed in the alt ed special programs. The alt ed focus is to prepare the students for eventual survivial in the community and eventual independence from care [...]
Posted in Edutech on Nov 4th, 2005 Comments Off
What an an astounding statement from the New Scientist journal. I don’t know much about the source, however on all appearances it looks like a reputable source in the science community. What does this mean and imply for how new products and choices are made? For our mapping project and how we are engaging youth and adults on basic issues [...]
Posted in Edutech on Nov 3rd, 2005 Comments Off
Here are two videos (one short, one long) of Etienne Wenger found on the Knowledgelab site. Learning, social networking, meaning, communities of practice are some of the subjects covered. It looks very good and I will be giving it a good listen as the material is solid looking stuff for solidifying our youth community mapping [...]
Picked this article up from Stephen Downes Oldaily and it is a gem.
This is a major article that covers digital literacy in the Australian E-learning community. It’s breadth is wide and deep. The links given at the end are awsome as the resources cover such a range of ICT thinking and practices. Of [...]
Posted in Learning Landscape on Nov 1st, 2005 Comments Off
Here is a great article from apophenia :: making connections where none previously existed. I liked this article because it has implications to our mapping ideas and what we may do and why we will do it. The article is about designing social software in the context of the author’s (Danah Boyd) theories of 3 critical [...]
