That Networked Learning elective “English Seminar” class I taught last semester ended two weeks ago. (Sift through the archives for related posts.) For new readers or simply people not tuned in here during the last six months, here’s a recap: Ten students of mixed grades (9-12, ages 15-18), each with a MacBook laptop (the school [...]

In my third month of writing here about 21st century education, way back in March 2007, I put the pom-poms down, stopped cheerleading, and started thinking about all the ways schools can kill the learning that is possible when students have a simple laptop and a blog. This snippet from a post from back then [...]

Jaeho and Younsuk were gracious enough to give me a half hour of their time this Monday night for this Skype interview about the Basketball Without Borders blog and podcast project. I’ll go ahead and re-embed the video interview I shot with them directly after their Skype interview with their college basketball hero KJ Matsui [...]

It’s been about six weeks since my last update on the ten-week-old Networked Learning class I created with the help of so many of you in the initial Open Thread post and Twitter. Students are still grading themselves and justifying it – and showing the same fondness for grade inflation as so many of our [...]

I’m going to let the pictures speak. If you’re new to this blog, you have to know that I’m reporting from my 1:1 Apple Laptop classroom in Seoul, South Korea. Natural “Un-Lesson” Planning (or, “Goodbye, Teachery Headaches”) Type A personalities, you’d better sit down before reading further. This lesson planning consisted of little more than [...]

A snapshot from kwout of Younsuk’s self-assessment in the project-based PLN class. It’s interesting to me. Click to read it all, and feel free to comment to Younsuk. (He’s interesting, by the way: Korean, but grew up in Japan, which is fascinating to anybody who knows the modern historical relations between these two countries. Speaks [...]

Background to a class that might, in its own small way, move educational history forward into the 21st century: Students in a 1:1 Apple Laptop school take my Networked Learning elective. They all have Macbooks with iLife for easy podcasting, movie-making, photography, and multimedia blogging. My open school network allows access to Twitter, Skype, YouTube, [...]