21st Century Learning

21st Century Learning #71: Students Leading a School to a Support a More Sustainable Future

alex.ragone — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:01:06 -0500

21st Century Learning #71
Collegiate School's CENIC

Students Leading a School to Support a More Sustainable Future

Student April 16, 2008

Collegiate School's CENIC club has three areas of interest: reducing the school’s environmental footprint, spreading awareness of environmental problems and solutions, and taking part in the wider, global environmental movement.

James, the president, and Harrison, a key member of the CENIC joing us to discuss the club, it's founding and growth at Collegiate School.

If you're interested in learning more about CENIC, please contact James and Harrison through their web site contact form.

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21st Century Learning #70: Loving Moodle

alex.ragone — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:09:34 -0500

21st Century Learning #70
Loving Moodle*
With Guest Aaron Grill
April 9, 2008

This week we discussed the many possibilities of Moodle with Aaron Grill, Technology Coordinator at The Browning School.

* Thanks to Lisa Pedicini for the show name.

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21st Century Learning #69: Stewart Crais on the Laptop Institute

alex.ragone — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:28:11 -0500

21st Century Learning #69
Stewart Crais, Lausanne Collegiate School
on The Laptop Institute
April 2, 2008

Stewart Crais, Director of Technology at the Lausanne Collegiate School joined us to discuss the Laptop Institute.

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21st Century Learning #68: Christian Long from Think Lab

alex.ragone — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:04:43 -0500

21st Century Learning #68
Christian Long from Think Lab
on Teaching and School Design
March 19, 2007

An exciting conversation with Christian Long about his recent move from a school design architecture firm back to the English classroom. We discussed his teaching, design of schools, and what the great examples of inovative schools.

What are your thoughts on school design?

Christian mentioned a number of author's towards the end of the interview. Here are links to their books/writing:

Parker Palmer
Ted Sizer
John Dewey
Elliot Washer from The Big Picture Company

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21st Century Learning #67: Chris Bigenho on the Classroom of the Future Exhibit

alex.ragone — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:51:46 -0500

21st Century Learning #67
Chris Bigenho on the NAIS Classrooms of the Future Exhibit
March 12, 2008

Special Guest Chris Bigenho, Director of Academic Technology at the Greenhill School in Addison, Texas describes the process of planning and the results of the NAIS Classrooms of the Future Exhibit at their recent Annual Conference.

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21st Century Learning #64: U.S. Presidential Primaries and You

arvind — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:29:06 -0500

Alex, arvind and chatroom guests discussed all the technology surrounding the U.S. Preisdential Primary races. How can you use the Internet and online tools to understand the process? Tune in to find out...

21st Century Learning #65: NAIS Annual Conference Preview

alex.ragone — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:48:22 -0600

21st Century Learning #65

National Association of Independent Schools Annual Conference Preview

With Jeff Ritter and Mariam Mattew
February 28, 2008

Special Guests Jeff Ritter from St. John's School in Austin, Texas and Mariam Matthew from the American School in London.

We discussed the National Association of Independent School's Conference (NAIS), standardized tests, Upper School curriculum and much more in this 18 minute power packed conversation.

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21st Century Learning #63: EduCon 2.0 Review

alex.ragone — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:33:15 -0600

21st Century Learning #63

EduCon 2.0 Review
With Matt Montagne and Bill Knauer
January 30, 2008

This week we discussed the experiences of the in person and remote EduCon participant. A lively discussion with Matt Montagne, Tech Coordinator at the University School of Milwaukee, WI, and Bill Knauer, Director of Technology at Packer Collegiate School in Brooklyn, NY.

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21st Century Learning #62: Review of PBS's Frontline "Growing Up Online"

arvind — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:23:05 -0600

21st Century Learning #62

Review of PBS's Frontline Growing Up Online

January 23, 2008

We discussed PBS's excellent newspiece "Growing Up Online" which investigated the lives of the first generation of kids to grow up with Internet access their entire lives. We brainstormed a show with kids as well as covered the pieces of the news story which we felt were critical.

21st Century Learning #61: Our Plans for 2008

alex.ragone — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:24:38 -0600

21st Century Learning #61
Our Plans for 2008
January 16, 2008

A discusison of our goals for 21st Century Learning in 2008.

Goals!

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21st Century Learning #60: Demetri Orlando and Fred Bartels on the ISENet Ning

alex.ragone — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:25:03 -0600

21st Century Learning #60
The Independent School Educators Network (ISENET) Ning
A discussion with Demetri Orlando and Fred Bartels
December 19, 2007

We discussed the Independent School Educator Ning network with Fred Bartels and Demetri Orlando. What is a social network? How do we expand it? How do we bring the other 98% of teachers into the world of their students. A fun conversation.

Happy New Year!

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21st Century Learning #59: Students Discussing Social Networking between Faculty and Students

alex.ragone — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:45:46 -0600

21st Century Learning #59
Students Discussing Social Networking Between Faculty and Students
with Special Guests, Laurie Bartels, Andrew ('09), and Kristi ('10) from Rye Country Day School and Banoo ('10) and Kari ('08) from Hewitt School.
December 12, 2007

We continued our conversation about appropriate boundries between teachers and students in social networks with students from Rye Country Day School and Hewitt School.

What are you experiences with Facebook, Twitter, or any other social network and your students? What boundries do you draw?

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21st Century Learning #58: A Discussion of the Issues Surrounding Social Networking Between Faculty and Students

alex.ragone — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:20:33 -0600

21st Century Learning #58
A Discussion of the Issues Surrounding
Social Networking Between Faculty and Students
with Special Guest, Lucy Gray
December 5, 2007

We had an exciting conversation about the appropriate boundries that teachers should have between their personal and professional lives with their students, and how the Internet and Social Networking tools effect this relationship. Lucy Gray joined us about half way through our show to discuss Facebook and how college students are using it as a tool to learn, communicate and even get jobs.

Next week we'll be attempting to have a few students join in the conversation.

What are you experiences with Facebook, Twitter, or any other social network and your students? What boundries do you draw?

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21st Century Learning #57: NEIT2007 Unconference Reflection

alex.ragone — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:15:24 -0600

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #57
NEIT2007 Unconference Review

November 28, 2007

This week we had special guests Barbara Swanson, Associate Director for Professional Development for NYSAIS and Matt Lipstein, Director of Technology at Brooklyn Heights Montessori School. We discussed the unconference model at NEIT2007 and how the conference was received.

Next week, a discussion of social network between faculty and students. What's your take? Join us on December 5, 2007 at Noon EST, 5pm GMT.

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21st Century Learning #56: Conference Web 2.0 Setup

alex.ragone — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:31:23 -0600

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #56
NYSAIS Information Technology Conference Web 2.0 Setup

November 7, 2007

This week we discussed setting up our web presence for the 2007 NYSAIS Conference for Managers of Information Technology at Mohonk Mountain House in New Paltz, NY.

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21st Century Learning #54: K12 Online Review

alex.ragone — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:12:23 -0600

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #53
K12 Online Review

October 24, 2007

Today was the our K-12 Online Review Show.

We reviewed a number of the presentations that had been published so far. Enjoy the show!

Links:

K-12 Online: http://k12onlineconference.org/

21st Century Learning: K-12 Online Presentation

alex.ragone — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:31:55 -0500

Welcome to Alex Ragone and arvind grover's K-12 Online Presentation.

Thanks to all of our EdTechTalk co-hosts and participants on this presentation.

These Include:

Jeff Lebow
Dave Cormier
Jennifer Maddrell
John Schinker
Doug Symington
Lee Baber
Paul Allison
Susan Ettenheim
Cheryl Oakes
Jennifer Wagner
Vicki Davis
Sharon Peters
Lisa Durff
Jose Rodriguez
Alice Mercer
Cathy Evanoff
Jeff Flynn
Vinnie Vrotny
And the entire EdTechTalk community!

Thanks to our EdTechTalk webcasters for their gracious Creative Commons licensing on their content. Specifically:

EdTechTalk #40

EdTechTalk#27

EdTechBrainStorm 2007.09.27

21st Century Learning #53: K12 Online Preparation Show #2

alex.ragone — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:52:47 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #53
K12 Online Preparation Show #2

October 10, 2007

Today was the second of our two K-12 Online Planning Shows.

We're asking you, the EdTechTalk community to tell us what the community means to you in an audio recording in order to represent the community for our K-12 online presentation.

Here are the questions:

* Tell us your name and what you do
* How did you find out about EdTeahTalk?
* Why do you listen to EdTechTalk?
* What kinds of benefits have you found by participating in the community?
* Why do you broadcast live? (if you do)

We answered these questions today and discussed the status of our presentation.

Leave us a voice mail message at: 206-984-2569

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21st Century Learning - K-12 Online Intro...

alex.ragone — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:09:37 -0500

Here's the beginning of our presentation. Comments are appreciated.

21st Century Learning #52: K12 Online Preparation Show #1

alex.ragone — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:27:41 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #52
K12 Online Preparation Show #1

October 3, 2007

Today was the first of two K-12 Online Planning Shows.

We're asking you, the EdTechTalk community to tell us what the community means to you in an audio recording in order to represent the community for our K-12 online presentation.

Here are the questions:

* Tell us your name and what you do
* How did you find out about EdTeahTalk?
* Why do you listen to EdTechTalk?
* What kinds of benefits have you found by participating in the community?
* Why do you broadcast live? (if you do)

Leave us a voice mail message at: 206-984-2569

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21st Century Learning #51: The Goals Show

alex.ragone — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:05:30 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #51
The Goals Show

September 26, 2007

Today was our Goal Show! We began by discussing our K-12 Online Presentation. We're asking you, the EdTechTalk community to tell us what the community means to you in an audio recording in order to represent the community for our K-12 online presentation.

Please send your record your audio and send it to us as at 21 [at] edtechtalk.com. You can also just post a link to the audio via the comment field on this post. In your recording, please answer the following questions: Who are you? How did you hear about ETT? What does the community mean to you? What is the most important thing that you have learned as part of the ETT community? Thanks!

In the goals part of our show, we went on to discuss why goals are important and then to discuss our goals, and the goals of our audience. Lisa Durff, Lee Baber, Alice Mercer, Joshua Sommermeyer, and Jeff Lebow posted their goals up on the EdTechTalk forums.

For the next two weeks, we'll be discussing and creating our K-12 Online Conference presentation. Please come by for conversation about online presentation creation.

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21st Century Learning #50: Webcaster Graduation, Preview of the Goals Show, and Conference Mania

alex.ragone — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:03:53 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #50
Webcaster Graduation, Preview of the Goals Show, and Conference Mania
September 21, 2007

We're back after a busy beginning of September. Today we did our Webcaster Graduation.

We also previewed next week's goal show where we're going to collect the goals of our community and have a discussion of what they are. So please post your goals for the year in the EdTechTalk Discussion Forums Here.

21st Century Learning #48: Peter Gow: Online Professional Learning Communities

alex.ragone — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:57:26 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #48
Peter Gow: Online Professional Learning Communities
July 3, 2007

This week, we discussing Online Professional Learning Communities with Peter Gow, creator of Independent Educator and Director of College Counseling and Special Programs and a former Academic Dean at Beaver Country Day School.

21st Century Learning #45:Jeff Mao, Maine Coordinator of Educational Technology

alex.ragone — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:20:28 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #46
Jeff Mao, Coordinator of Educational Technology, Maine
June 12, 2007

This week, we discussing Maine's 1:1 program with Jeff Mao. This is a must listen with many wonderful insights into using technology appropriately in the classroom.

Our apologies for taking so long to post this audio. The end of the year got to us!

To contact us, please submit a comment on this post or send us e-mail at 21 [at] edtechtalk.com.

Click here for the show notes

21st Century Learning #47: Live from NECC with Vinnie Vrotny in the Bloggers Cafe

alex.ragone — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:59:14 -0500

EdTechTalk: 21st Century Learning #47
Live from NECC with Vinnie Vrotny in the Bloggers Cafe
June 26, 2007