The MacArthur Foundation hosted an event at New York City's New School on May 17, 2010, which included discussions and project demonstrations focused on re-imagining learning for the 21st century.
This video (one of three from the event) features Karen Cator, Director, Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Dept. of Education (seek to 04:25), with opening remarks by Keith Krueger, CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (00:30).
View a playlist of all three videos from this event at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6A14474690DDA20E
The ideas presented in this lecture are great but the federal government has failed to provide any clear guidance that demonstrates they have the ability to fund these ideas. Instead, they are continuing the legacy of NCLB and handcuff districts' abilities to create authentic learning environments for their kids, under the auspices of "metric evaluation."
I am growing tired of the double talk in education. The feds want success but are restricting the ability to be successful.
LT1VegaGT 7 months ago
How can teachers remain "connected" if the learning is personalized along the long tail? This assumes that the "personalization" is not contextualized in deep learning. In other words, it's not just Johnny on page 34 of the text book and Chantelle on page 199.
It's Johnny engaged within a mystery about the London Fog while Chantelle is enthralled by deep ocean currents and the effects of lava exposure on nitrogen based life forms (context for the math).
How will teachers be experts in all?
RobertCleggRC 10 months ago