Yes, I’m still reading The World is Flat and thinking about implications for my work in videoconferencing. Consider this! If President Bush is looking for a similar legacy project, there is one just crying out — a national science initiative that would be our generation’s moon shot: a crash program for alternative energy and conservation [...]
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Ever since the Keystone Conference last year, I’ve wanted to try out an idea I learned from Carol Fleck and Kim Perry, two teachers who videoconference together on a regular basis to team teach a class. Their presentation at Keystone was titled, Together in the Trenches: Two Teachers Share the REAL Story of Daily Videoconferencing. [...]
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p. 244 Quoting Bill Gates: Our university system is the best … Our university system is competitive and experimental. p. 245 Coupled with America’s unique innovation-generating machines – universities, public and private research labs, and retailers – we have the best-regulated and most efficient capital markets in the world…. Seems clear from this we must [...]
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So this week I’ve also been team teaching a workshop with Bennie Tschoerner, Paris ISD, and Ken Conn, Lamar Consolidated ISD in Texas. Today we learned about the MysteryQuest project – and did the first professional development version of MysteryQuest…… MQ Beaches! Each of the three sites was assigned two areas of the world and [...]
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Still reading The World is Flat! p. 177. Introducing new technology alone is never enough. The big spurts in productivity come when a new technology is combined with new ways of doing business. It took several decades for electrification to kick in and have a big economic and productivity impact. Why? Because it was not [...]
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Here’s a question for you! If kids have never seen a VC, are they disadvantaged because they can’t imagine talking to someone through a TV, computer, or cell phone? Does access mean advantage? I’m still reading The World is Flat. P. 169. “Young people are using our mobile phones today as two-way video-phones,” explained Tamon [...]
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While reading The World is Flat, I’m noticing some unique uses of academic skills in the real-world work place. It would be wonderful to arrange/create/organize a VC for students on these topics/issues. Here’s a sampling: p. 128 Describing the Wal-Mart supply chain: Call it the Wal-Mart Symphony” in multiple movements – with no finale. It [...]
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In the section on running with the gazelles and lions in Friedman’s book, The World is Flat, (p. 114-127) I started thinking about some of the frustration that’s been growing in me on how the latest ed tech technologies are changing so fast! How can a teacher keep up? And is it worth spending time [...]
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So, I’ve been slowly working my way through The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. I know others are blogging on this too, but I’m interested in the business uses of videoconferencing, and other applications I see from the book for VC use in schools. I’m still not finished the book, but thought while I’m [...]
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