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"TeacherTube Isn't How We Were Taught in School!"

TeacherTube will revolutionize the way you think of school. Schools continue to educate our students like we did 75 years ago: 30 kids to a room, all the same age, and same grade level. Why? Great Question. Our world is changing faster than our school systems. Our government's, No Child Left Behind plan, is doing just that, leaving our kids behind.

Read my lips, the ability to pass a test is no prediction of how our kids will do in the future. Life isn't about test scores, it's about life scores. The USA is the land of opportunity and innovation. Or are we the land of standardized testing?

Are we teaching our kids to be readers, writers, thinkers, and entrepreneurs? Will they work for their dreams or will they work for someone else's dreams?

Grant Elementary School in Glenrock, Wyoming, is implementing a no homework practice.

No more Homework!

 

How will we teach problem solving and teamwork? How do our kids finish this sentence,  "When I grow up..." ? 

Why is Home Schooling one of the fastest growing sectors in education today?

What are virtual high schools? Teenagers can sleep in and study when they are awake, maybe at midnight.

So Why Teach technology?

My goal is to get you to ask why? How? When? Where? What?  Who?

Enjoy, be empowered and have fun!

To your success,

Kelly Wissink

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Shake it Up! 

Education Today and Tomorrow

This video was created by Tom Woodward of Henrico County schools in Virginia. Tom used the work of Karl Fisch from Colorado who created a PPT using various quotes and statistics from "flat world" thinking. Used with permission

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Digital Learners 

Pay Attention

Since most of today's students can appropriately be labeled as "Digital Learners", why do so many teachers refuse to enter the digital age with their teaching practices? This presentation was created in an effort to motivate teachers to more effectively use technology in their teaching. Please see http://t4.jordandistrict.org/payattention to learn how you can become a better teacher.

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Why Change? 

Did You Know; Shift Happens - Globalization; Information Age

Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization and The Information Age -- edit; This video was not on youtube during the time I uploaded it, and now, it has become a very popular topic of comments. I hope you enjoy the work of these fine gentlemen's video presentation. Music Credits: (1992) "The Last of the Mohicans" off the soundtrack the song is (Elk Hunt/The Kiss), which appears at the end of the film during the cliff scene. [if you haven't seen the film, you should watch it]

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Tony Wagner: Making the Grade 

From Publishers Weekly
Decades of school reform efforts have led only to the consensus that American education needs improvement. The problem, Wagner argues, is that people are confused about what's really wrong with public schools. Worse, many of the accountability systems established in the last five years to improve schools are having the opposite effect. The standards movement, once touted as the cure-all for failing schools, "has degenerated into the `standardized testing movement,' " in which teachers teach to the test, students become scores, and everyone feels less motivation to learn and achieve. Inadequate attention gets paid to the development of the complex reasoning and problem-solving abilities necessary in a rapidly changing world or to the citizenship skills needed in a pluralistic society. And perhaps most troubling, high stakes testing attached to grade retention has led to increased dropout rates, especially among minorities. Wagner, a codirector of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, may decry the same old demon, but he also offers a number of solutions that move the dialogue beyond tired debates. He favors accountability systems that focus on what students can do with their knowledge, rather than what they can remember for a test; localized authority that holds teachers and administrators accountable for student learning, but allows them choice in curriculum and methodology; and smaller schools, where teachers and students know each other and children feel valued. None of these ideas is revolutionary; each has merit in the struggle to make schools places of genuine, relevant learning.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Tony has worked for more than thirty-five years in the field of school improvement, and he is a frequent keynote speaker and widely published author on education and society. Prior to assuming his current position at Harvard, Tony was a high school teacher for twelve years; a school principal; a university professor in teacher education; co-founder and first executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility; project director for the Public Agenda Foundation in New York; and President and CEO of the Institute for Responsive Education. He earned his a Masters of Arts in Teaching and Doctorate in Education at Harvard University.

http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~clg/aboutus2.html

Stop Homework 

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Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools

Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools

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The Homework Myth

The Homework Myth

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The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and

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The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It

The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It

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Why Change? 

Dr. Tony Wagner
Tony Wagner has served as Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group (CLG) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since its inception in 2000. An initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, CLG is an "R & D" center that helps teams to be effective change leaders in schools and districts. He is also on the faculty of the Executive Leadership Program for Educators, a joint initiative of Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Business School, and Kennedy School of Government. Tony consults widely to public and independent schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally and has been Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the past eight years.

Why Change? 

Dr. Bill Daggett
Dr. Daggett has spoken to hundreds of thousands of educators and education stakeholders in all 50 states. His enlightening, entertaining, and motivating messages have helped his listeners to look at education differently by challenging their assumptions about the purposes, benefits, and effectiveness of American schools. Dr. Daggett inspires his audiences both to embrace what is best about our education system and to make the changes necessary to meet the needs of all students in the 21st century.

What do the Experts Say? 

HGSE News: ?Unlearning? to Improve Public Education--The Change Leadership Group Launches a Coach Learning Program
A feature story on the Coach Learning Program recently launched by the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

TeacherTube Links 

TeacherTube | Edutopia
A new site for educators, TeacherTube, takes the sharing, production, and community-building aspects of YouTube and offers an educator's version. According to TeacherTube's founders, "We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners."
Beth's Blog: Teacher Tube: Fear of YouTube? Fear of Technology?
A place to capture and share ideas, experiment with and publish links about nptech, educational technology, information design, visual thinking, creativity, ICT in the developing world, and much more.

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    NancyOram NancyOram Jun 3, 2008 @ 10:01 am
    So refreshing to hear likeminded thinkers. So much of homeschooling is "playing school" at home. Homeschooling has been a solution for us, but real solutions are needed in the school system. It's not possible to homeschool all children.
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    sdtechteacher sdtechteacher Jul 27, 2007 @ 7:35 pm
    Excellent lens. Thank you for adding shift happens - I have been meaning to add it also. You raise excellent points.

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    debweave debweave Jul 5, 2007 @ 4:06 pm
    Why do teachers "refuse to enter the digital age ...?" Easy answer: at my school, many teachers have to fight over one projector just to do a PowerPoint presentation. We've got few tech resources, little knowlege of making and editing vids,
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Kelly and Curt both have a background in teaching and a passion for using their gifts to empower others to work from home.



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