Category Archives: student 2.0

Podcast: Three Schools Discover the 21st Century!

March 22, 2008 – 1:07 am

One for the MiniLegends

[Update: I was out of the loop preparing for my wedding when Australian Al Upton’s MiniLegends and Qatar’s Jabiz Raisdana got hit by two shockingly reactionary hammers. Since this podcast features Noel Thomas, an Australian high school principal representing all that is most forward-thinking and impressive about Australia’s educational system, I’d […]

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Another Brilliant Student Blogger: Beatrice’s 30-page Comic Life Satire on Grade Mania

March 16, 2008 – 2:50 am

If I’m sharing a lot of student bloggers on Beyond School lately, it’s because we only launched our high school-wide blogging program back in mid-January. Two short months later, I’m seeing sparks of genius here and there.
Here’s another one: A 30-page Comic Life comic book from Beatrice. I featured it in my […]

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Quantum Shifts Happening? Students and Administrators Driving

March 7, 2008 – 2:31 am

Shifts are happening more and more quickly in my world. I’ve seen too many inspired visions crash on the shoals of reality to celebrate these shifts yet, but they do make me hopeful.
They’re happening with a few select students: Lindsea in Hawaii (I often want to call Lindsea “my favorite student,” but I’ve […]

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Quality Student Podcast: Patrick Interviews Bill Farren for Project Global Cooling

March 2, 2008 – 1:53 pm

As my 1:1 MacBook laptop school drives further into 21st century education - attempts to, anyway, despite getting stuck in the deep mud of 20th century teachers, parents, and students - I’m more and more realizing that it’s the early adopters who are the exponential change-agents.
Among the adults at my school, the early adopters fueling […]

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Open Lesson to Students Everywhere: This is Real Learning, Quick-in, Quick-out

February 29, 2008 – 3:53 am

Thanks to Jeff Utecht and the students in my activity block for this little demonstration of what real learning can look like now. Jeff’s in Shanghai. I’m in Seoul. We’re both in Twitter and Skype, though, so distance doesn’t matter.  This kind of international travel is free. And no airport waiting.
Read the tweets, then […]

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