Our kids as workers who will create workplaces

The feature below, from GOOD magazine- http://www.good.is/ 
Pretty cool just to see profiles of 30 companies from all across the world of work,
http://www.good.is/post/30-places-we-want-to-work/

 however the longer I studied the list, I started thinking about what kind of people start these companies... what in their background (school, home, community, life experience) caused them to think and act in a way resulting in a company labeled as a "place we want to work"? Below the description of each company is a legend explaining how that company made it on the list of 30. The criteria used to select the companies is an interesting commentary on what the world of work looks like today and how it will likely evolve for us and more importantly for the young people we teach.

SO, here's a question for the COMMENT SECTION... how do we (how do our schools) prepare students, not just to work in companies like these, BUT how do we prepare them to do the TYPES of work described and MAYBE MOST IMPORTANTLY, how do we prepare them to be the FOUNDERS and ORGANIZERS of companies... ESPECIALLY our kids who will graduate and remain in ARKANSAS?

What does the future hold for baby Maxwell?

Here's an example of a media piece related to education that's not from an education source (from your assignments... remember?)


http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/10/26/pm-the-next-generations-job-market/


Anything sound familiar? 

Baby Maxwell will need to be a_a_ _ _ _ e?

Find your way in the Social Media Landscape

Cool Tools for your Team to Check Out...

 Top 100 tools for 2010 (earlier years are there as well)

http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html  

Google "social media landscape"

Examine the various charts and diagrams for examples of tools to try out with student and adult learners

Any other "tool sites" ilearntechnology, etc.

Educator's Guide for Integrating Social Media- http://emergentbydesign.com/2009/11/24/75-resources-educator-guide-for-integrating-social-media/

 

Follow on Twitter

Feeling a little overwhelmed by Twitter? No worries! Try following some of your tried and true educator pals:

Teacher Institute Facilitator, Amanda - aclinn

Lincoln High School Instructional Facilitator, Heather - hbhbottoms2

Both Amanda and Heather will tweet information that they feel are important for teacher leaders. There is no need to get bogged down by all the resources available on Twitter, steal the resources from someone else!! :)

Extra: Try setting up a phone account online. It will enable tweeting texts from certain important resources you would like to follow closely.

Resources for High School Teachers/Students

Audience Participation...I'll get you started.
Add your favorite resources- websites, blogs, even books, articles, humans... as a comment below

50 Web 2.0 tools to Tell a Story

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools

Resources for Middle School/ Junior High Teachers/Students

Audience Participation... I'll get you started.

50 Web 2.0 tools to Tell a Story

http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/StoryTools


Add your favorite resources- websites, blogs, even books, articles, humans... as a comment below

Resources for Elementary teachers/students

Audience Participation... I'll get you started.

Here's a link to Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for Young Learners....


http://thejournal.com/articles/2009/02/02/top-10-web-20-tools-for-young-learners.aspx


Add your favorite resources- websites, blogs, even books, articles, humans... as a comment below

Resources: Personal Learning Networks

 One blogger's point of view regarding the stages people go through when establishing their Personal Learning Network- http://www.thethinkingstick.com/stages-of-pln-adoption


http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/10-ways-to-help-students-develop-a-pln/

http://davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PLNSessionOutline

http://21clc.wikispaces.com/PLN

Blogs about Twitter

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/06/5-real-examples-of-using-twitter-for.html

Blogs and blog posts about using blogs for learning

http://www.teachingtips.com/blog/2008/07/21/50-useful-blogging-tools-for-teachers/

WHERE TO START: A few groovy edudorks or edugeeks

http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/

http://weblogg-ed.com/

http://teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/

http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/

http://onceateacher.wordpress.com/

http://theedublogger.com/

WHERE TO START: Blogs about Technology and Tech Tools

iLearn Technology - http://ilearntechnology.com/

Top 100 technology blogs for Teachers - http://www.onlinedegrees.org/top-100-technology-blogs-for-teachers/

 more Educational Technology- http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/

and even more... FOR FREE- http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

WHERE TO START: Education in General...

The Edublog awards - http://edublogawards.com/

50 Excellent Blogs About Education - http://www.onlineschools.org/2009/10/13/50-excellent-blogs-about-education-reform/

A List of Top 200 Education Blogs - http://www.guidetoonlineschools.com/tips-and-tools/top-education-blogs

WHERE TO START: Blogs by teaching area

Top 40 special Education Blogs - http://www.onlinedegrees.org/top-40-special-education-blogs/

Top 15 blogs for Science in the classroom - http://www.onlinedegrees.org/top-15-blogs-for-science-in-the-classroom/

Top 15 Blogs on Reading and Literacy - http://www.onlinedegrees.org/top-15-blogs-on-reading-and-literacy/

Top 50 blogs in Literacy - http://www.networkedblogs.com/topic/literacy/

Top 25 blogs for Math in the Classroom - http://www.onlinedegrees.org/top-25-blogs-for-math-in-the-classroom/

Incredible Art Blogs and Podcasts - http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/links/blogs.html

PLNs: Let's Start Getting Organized

Okay... don't freak out. There are lots of people here to help you...


Heather is talking about this at the front of the room... you can also follow her at-

http://prezi.com/5pw5ewh1l0pg/delicious/


Here's where you go to sign up for delicious...

http://www.delicious.com/

Go here for one woman's pretty sane explanation of Personal Learning Networks...

http://onceateacher.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/pln-your-personal-learning-network-made-easy/

And if you're ready to learn more right now... check this out-

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb09/vol66/num05/Learning-with-Blogs-and-Wikis.aspx

and remember...

There is nothing new about personal learning networks...

Your network is about to get a lot bigger and a lot COOLER :)

Gov 2.0 Summit 2010: Elizabeth Coleman, "Building Curriculum Around Rea...

Refocus education around stuff that matters...

It makes me happy when really smart people use words like "stuff"

Gov 2.0 Summit 2010: Karen Cator, "Learning Powered by Technology"

Karen Cator- the source of the quote used to open TLI session 2

put this on the flip chart

Let's talk.