Madeline Brownstone
Teachers Teaching Teachers #98 - Learning to be Unschooly - 04.02.08
Submitted by Paul Allison on Wed, 2008-04-23 13:57.44:35 minutes (10.19 MB)
Earlier this month, on Youth Twitter, a student in South Korea, Soojin wrote, "just my opinion about youthtwitter: schooly. concrete."
A bit later, Hannah, a student in Philadelphia, answered on Youth Twitter, "I think Alan's survey is a good example of how not to be 'schooly'. Students should ask questions of each other and interact."
Wow,
we thought this would be an interesting conversation on Teachers
Teaching Teachers. Perhaps we could have more of a Students Teaching
Teachers show.
We invited Soojin,
Hannah, Alan, a student from Queens, NY, Lindsea, a studnet from
Honolulu, and Ben, a student from NYC to talk about the possibilities
and problems with http://youthtwitter on our live webcast, Teachers Teaching Teachers.
What a great a conversation we had about Youth Twitter, and blogging, and social networking and blogging-beyond-school.
OH! We also invited some of the students' teachers. Their insights were invaluable.
We were excited to have Clay Burell, Madeline Brownstone, and George Mayo join us for this conversation as well.
Here's
the first paragraph of a blog post that Soojin wrote the day after the
webcast. (Click the link to read the whole post, and the responses.)
Enjoy! And pass this podcast on to your students for inspiration.
Unschooly-Youths Conversations Reflection
Posted on April 4th, 2008 by SoojinApril 3rd, 2008 10:00 AM GMT+09, something new happened to my life. Well, yes to quote me that was my “first time Skyping for real-purposes” and, of course, “with bunch of White-people” that lasted more than an hour hosted by a group called TeachersTeachingTeachers (not to forget mentioning Clay Burell’s impression that it was more like StudentsTeachingTeachers :-). Many feelings crossed my heart. Oh well, yes, I was pretty nervous at first I won’t deny (so childish!). And at the same time I was very honored to join this group of 9 out of 6 billion, members consisting of Clay Burell, Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, Madeline Brownstone, Lindsea, Hannah, Alan, Mr.Mayo, and Ben, talking about the leading form of education that all world will eventually have (sorry that I couldn’t link all names; please tell me your addresses). Paul told me during the conference that my tweet in YouthTwitter: just my opinion about youthtwitter: schooly. concrete was one of the key inspiration for opening such meeting. Actually, when I decided to tweet that I was afraid if I offended anyone in YouthTwitter but I decided to become honest because I wanted YT to improve. I’ve been blogging since last year, connected since about a month ago, and now I made a difference. Very meaningful.
No Music No Civilization » Unschooly-Youths Conversations Reflection
Teachers Teaching Teachers #97 - Foxfire for the Firefox Generation - 03.26.08
Submitted by Paul Allison on Mon, 2008-04-14 00:04.45:00 minutes (10.34 MB)
This podcast be
gins with a focus on the work of two technology teachers and two students from The Baccalaureate School for Global Education
(BSGE) in Astoria, NY. Madeline Brownstone and Shantanu Saha describe
their two-year technology curriculum that has students doing global,
multimedia projects.
Madeline and Shantanu have been working with
schools here in the US through the New York City Writing Project and
World Bridges/EdTechTalk. And their students have been participating in
a project with a school in the Netherlands with iEarn.
More recently
their students have also begun working with teachers and students
involved with the Horizon Project,
which was founded by Vikki Davis and Julie Lindsay. Listen to hear how
these teachers and students integrate these national and international
projects with the curricular expectations of a technology
concentration that leads to an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma.
That might be enough, but Madeline and Shantanu and their students also
found wonderful ways to relate their work to the collaborative study of
rural culture that is being planned by Lee Baber in Virginia and Woody
Woodgate in Alaska. Woody tells his students that they are natives of
Alaska and the digital worlds.
In this podcast we explore all of these ways of connecting urban, rural, global, and digital youths!









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