In this episode Alan speaks to Eric Marcos, BLC presenter and middle school teacher in Santa Monica, CA. Eric explains how one individual screencast tutorial made to help a student with homework blossomed into a robust tutorial site called MathTrain. Through this site, students have been empowered to create math tutorials for students in their [...]
In this six part series Alan and Richard Halkett, Director of Strategy and Research in Global Education for Cisco, explore the issues facing today’s educators. Topics include: Do public schools have time to change or is it too late? A researched based look at 21st century skills Schools who have begun the change process Informal [...]
This is the second half of Alan’s discussion with Rahaf Harfoush, New Media Expert and Member of Barack Obama’s Social Media Team. In this segment, Rahaf explains gender differences on the Web and the skills and practices that should be basic as we move forward in our digital world.
This is the first of a two part interview between Alan November and Rahaf Harfoush, New Media Expert and Member of President Barack Obama’s Social Media Team. In this segment, Rahaf explains how she became a part of the Obama campaign and how important the Web was in the 2008 presidential election. Alan and Rahaf [...]
This episode is the conclusion of a three part conversation between Alan November and Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University. In this segment, the two discuss the myth of the digital native and the importance teachers still bring to assignments that have gone digital. Finally, Dr. Wesch [...]
This episode is the second of a three part conversation between Alan November and Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University. In this segment, the two empathy as an essential 21st century skill. Additionally, Alan and Michael discuss the motivating nature behind having students publish their work online [...]
This episode is the first of a three part conversation between Alan November and Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University. In this segment, the two discuss the need for teaching social responsibility to students and what important basic skills students and teachers need to know. Additionally, the [...]
This is our second of two episodes with Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Professor of Learning Research, head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Laboratory and BLC10 opening keynoter. In this episode, Mitch discusses the need for schools to find a balance between being open to new ideas and being able to focus again [...]
The Learning Spiral, Scratch and Global Community - Part 2 [ 14:52 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadThis is our first of two episodes with Mitchel Resnick, LEGO Professor of Learning Research, head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Laboratory and BLC10 opening keynoter. In this episode, Mitch discusses the origin of the visual programming tool, Scratch. Additionally, he explains how the “creative thinking spiral” and this engaging tool [...]
In this episode, Alan talks to Lona Jack-Vilmar, Literacy Coach at International High School at Lafayette in New York. The discussion centers around a Wikipedia-based article that Lona created on the Wodaabe, a nomadic group that resides in Africa. Similar activities have the potential for modeling appropriate use of Wikipedia within schools.
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