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Monthly Archives: July 2010
What leadership looks like
Scott McLeod of the Dangerously Irrelevant blog has declared today, July 30, 2010 as Leadership Day 2010. He’s been doing this for three years now, and each year I’ve participated with a post. 2007 – Leaders of the Future where … Continue reading
Amazing speaker lineup for TEDxRedmond, all youth ages 10-16
TEDx Redmond is shaping up to be a great event! Generation YES is a proud co-sponsor of this first ever TEDx event created, planned, and run by youth for youth under age 16. TEDx Redmond will be held September 18, … Continue reading
Posted in conferences, Generation YES, student voice
Tagged empower, inspirational, student, TED, TEDx, TEDXREDMOND, teen, youth
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Tinkering and creativity
In my Tinkering talk at ISTE (slides coming soon!), I shared the French word for tinkering which is “bricolage”. It’s a great word because it doesn’t just mean tinkering, it also carries a connotation of playfulness, art, and using found … Continue reading
Posted in education reform, In the news
Tagged bricolage, creativity, Newsweek, Sherry Turkle, tinkering
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Do you sleep with your cell phone? Pew Study on Millennials
Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials — the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium — have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to … Continue reading
Posted in education reform, In the news, research, student voice
Tagged children, education, educational technology, millennial, Pew, student, student voice, technology
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Project-ing Tech Literacy
More reaction to the new whitepaper Assessing Technology Literacy: The Case for an Authentic, Project-Based Learning Approach (Read more or download PDF) From Education Week: “A new whitepaper addressing recent calls for technology literacy education argues any such education should … Continue reading
Posted in constructivism, education reform, Generation YES, technology literacy, TechYES
Tagged authentic, constructivism, edchat, edtech, PBL, project-based, research, student, technology, technology literacy, whitepaper
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