More from the previous posts. I’m having a lot of fun creating that staff development wiki. The “Digital Arts for Multiple Intelligences” pages are coming along nicely, but unevenly, so your input would be great (thanks, Patrick and Diane!). I’ve also got a page called “Links to Real World Examples of 21st Century Educators.” I’ve [...]

Constantly risking absurdityand deathwhenever he performsabove the headsof his audiencethe poet like an acrobatclimbs on rimeto a high wire of his own makingand balancing on eyebeamsabove a sea of facespaces his wayto the other side of the day…. ….in his supposed advancetoward that still higher perchwhere Beauty stands and waitswith gravityto start her death-defying leapAnd [...]

We expect my presentation to start around 7.30 p.m. That would make it: Thursday 11 a.m. in London Thursday 12.30 a.m. (ouch) in Hawaii (sorry, Chris! I owe you! Or you can send me a YackPack voice message?) Thursday 4.30 a.m. (carrumba) in Denver (Karl, how about a YackPack message?) Thursday 5.30 p.m. in Bangkok [...]

Arapahoe HS (Denver – Karl Fisch’s Digs) I know this is short notice, but that’s half the fun. I’ve been quiet this week because life hasn’t been. We’re in our first week of school as a 1:1 Apple Laptop school; I’m in my first week as Tech Coordinator / AP Literature teacher; our IT Manager [...]

Following up on that last post questioning whether it’s time for the very idea (and institution) of “school” to die, a thought experiment: Create a real-world project with all the right ingredients: relevance: it’s not a school exercise that ends up just another class project on the web, primarily designed to make students learn content [...]

Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and others are discussing how to include student voices at NECC. While I admire Karl immensely, I find the scope of the idea inadequately ambitious. NECC means less (next to nothing, I would guess) to students compared to their daily school experience, and their participation in the larger world generally. They [...]

[This is Part 5 in a series. Click here for Part 1, here for Part 2, here for Part 3, and here for Part 4. Sometimes pushing a snowball starts an avalanche, and we need all the cool snow we can get for this. So please take a moment, and just push this snowball of [...]

[This is Part 4 in a series. Click here for Part 1, here for Part 2, and here for Part 3. Part 5 is a 5-minute video invitation to global teens that lays out the simple steps to making this happen by Earth Day 2008. Please simply forward this to high school students in your [...]

[Update 16 June 07: This is Part 2 of a series. See Part 1 here; see Part 3 for an invitation to students who can take the lead in your area; and see Part 4 for how this could be integrated into Understanding by Design - based "classroom 2.0" digital, flat classroom projects. Part 5 [...]

[Update 16 JUN 07: This post is a seed that won't stop growing any time soon. It grows here in Part 2, then in Part 3 with an invitation to students who can take the lead in your area; and here in Part 4, on how this could be integrated into Understanding by Design - [...]