I Need My Teachers to Learn

Version #1: If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s a video created by  Kevin Honeycutt and Shawn Gromley that highlights some of the digital disconnects that exist between students and teachers.  Kevin Honeycutt is a Kansa Educator.

Over 10,0000 hits on YouTube as of Dec 21.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxHb5QVD7fo

Kevin Honeycutt’s website: http://kevinhoneycutt.org/

Information R/evolution
By Michael Wesch, KSU

This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information. This video was created as a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, and create information effectively.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM

If you are interested in this topic, check out Clay Shirky's work, especially: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontolo...

Also check out David Weinberger's Everything is Miscellaneous:

http://www.everythingismiscellaneous....

Digital Footprints, Privacy and Information Disclosure

This course requires the creation and use of a variety of publicly available and accessible websites / web resources,  Before selecting, creating and using online accounts for this course, students are encouraged to consider the benefits of establishing and maintaining a professional digital footprint. By using a consistent username across multiple websites and web services, and consistently publishing high-quality, professional content online, students can craft their online digital footprint in ways that can open future doors of employment and work.

Students are encouraged, but not required, to create a consistent, professional digital footprint. For more thoughts along these lines, see:

1. •Jen Wagner's post, "If You Lead….Are You Ready For Them To Follow"
   

2. •Clarence Fisher's post, "Losing Your Footprint Sucks"
   

3. •Wesley Fryer's post, "Google Profiles, Online Reputation Management, and Digital Footprints"
   

4. •Notes from Robyn Treyvaud's presentation, "Our 21st Century Challenge: Developing Responsible, Ethical and Resilient Digital Citizens"
   

5. •The YouTube video, "Digital Footprints – Digital Dossier"
   

Education & Technology Quotes
By Tony Vincent

19 quotes by educators and thinkers.

http://www.slideshare.net/tonyvincent/education-technology-quotes

Learning to Change – Changing to Learn

To emphasize the importance of education to the nation’s future and to drive home how much schools need to change in order to educate the children of tomorrow, the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA), and the National Education Association (NEA) have teamed up to develop a public service announcement (PSA) campaign aimed at the presidential candidates. [More...]

YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tahTKdEUAPk&feature=player_embedded

A few other video about Education

Progressive Education in the 1940s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opXKmwg8VQM&feature=fvw

Change the World in 5 Minutes - Everyday at School
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oROsbaxWH0M&feature=related

21st century pedagogy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l72UFXqa8ZU&feature=related

A Vision of Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o&feature=related

1.     Cyndi;s Site:  http://www.cyndidannerkuhn.info
   

2.     Newsletter: http://cyndidannerkuhn.info/CDK/Newsletter/Newsletter.html
   

3.     Student Websites:  http://cyndidannerkuhn.info/CDK/Student_Websites/Student_Websites.html
   

Link to a recording of the Introduction Class

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/3973307

recorded during the 12:30-2:20 class on Thursday, Jan 14, 2010