Again encouraging that cultural shift in education that the teacher is the holder of all knowledge

This article does a nice job of making statements about what classrooms need to be doing to support technology in the classroom. It backs it up with explinations but it would be nice to have the additional resources of which activities or programs to use.

Agreed.

I don't know how much I agree with this statement. Henry Ford and Steve Jobs were innovative and neither of them really developed those skills in a school setting. So is there a connection between education and innovation?

Jenkins also addresses this change in classroom design, or rather the importance of not falling into the trap of using technology to replace other forms of assignments that "becmoe one more thing we grade, one more way of measuring whether everyone in the class has learned the same material and mastered the same skills."

Even young students have ideas about how to balance the needs of the many with the needs of the few. Using this type of approach to classroom instruction can generate many solutions to these serious issues and connects learning to students lives.

I'm impressed with how this process created very specific goals like this one, that address a wide variety of issues and encourages further discourse and more indepth investigation

Important to remember as we help students set their own goals

This is an nice clarification on why goals are important to any process.

I hope this is one of those things we can start to change about American culture. I appreciated how Jenkins addressed this danger by pointing out that "seeing students as consumers rather than participants within the educational process" is developing attitudes/ behaviors that limit a students participation.

I love goals like this. Creating a classroom environment that asks students to take a risk and try something new, because it might be an undiscovered talent, is engaging and promotes growth mind-set.

How does one develop an attitude in someone else?

Beliefs about affinity spaces and participatory cultures

To see the purpose of education and its goals spelled out in these lists is very enlightening. But one wonders who decides what is a worthy use of leisure?

Participatory learning.

Interesting to see the key events that have been shaping education laid out like this. (the Commission in 1918, America 2000, the Space Race). To take into consideration all the different pieces that have made education into this mismatched quilt of good intentions.

How successful was this program?

I'm afraid I don't know much about this.

The story of Sesame Street was very inspirational to me in terms of deciding to go into teaching. They were so successful in their goal of bringing basic literacy awareness to preschool age children that 25 years later they had to lower the demographic for their viewers.

This early influence on the aim of public education continues to be part of the mythology that public education prepares students for the responsibility of adulthood when in fact many of the practices of public education don't promote this type of thinking.

Book smarts verses practical experience.

In order to change education into a more participatory culture we will need to shift the hierarchical and pre-structured relationship between teachers and learners.

I would have believed that the Coomon Core came from an empirical source with its ideals of economy, citizenship and democracy giving direction to our goals, but part of the problem with the educational system is how certain philosophical ideas about students and their abilities have influenced benchmarks and tracking - people and ideas that often bias.

Caution must be used here: who are these "great" thinkers, what are their agendas really like?

This is true for the individual goals students may have to create a podcast, up to the goals the classroom may have to create "public service announcements", to district goals for teaching persuasive writing, all the way up to nationally recognized common core practices.

Was recently reading an article by Henry Jenkins talking about "breaking down the walls that isolate classroom teaching from the larger learning ecology surrounding schools, incorporate outside perspectives" etc. by incorporating technology and affinity spaces in the classroom.

When I look at my classmates blogs and posts I see this discovery of community but I don't feel I have found mine yet.

Will we be opening Pandora's Box on this one?

Check this out. It's been 3 years since her last post but read what she had to say about her final blog. (It's been 11 years since this report). Fascinating

As long as there is some protection from preditors I am okay with thie exploration and discovery taking place online.

And these studies are 10 years old. What's different now?

I think this ties into a classmates comments about wondering who these people were - the strangers following us on Twitter. Why us? Who they?

As a writing teacher this is helping me see how I can make grammer reliavent to students today.

Virginia Woolf was a self publisher. If you ever get a chance to look into how artists over time have funded their own projects it might amaze you have how socially active those actions can be.

This is what interests me first, self-publishing second. But I don't really get excited about networking. That's what makes these new social spheres so interesting is how they do expose us to things we otherwise wouldn't be considering.

Rally the troops and restrategize

Books to reaad! You know I love that <3

So very important to have the right kind of support. Remembering that sometimes when we talk to our friends and they tell us how awesome we are we are less likely to be successful (because the brain mistakes the talking for the doing). But the right kind of support can hold us accountable and help us replan and learn from our mistakes.

Like I said earlier, sometimes we put a lot of effort into making our goals but when at first we don't succeed we rarely reflect and come up with Plan B and try again. This process of trying a second time, and learning from our mistakes, and planning to avoid those things. Will help us out immensely.

Yes. Dieting is a frustration of mine. I feel athletic and strong on the inside but my outside doesn't match that image and I do get discouraged and down on myself. But changing routines and rituals will help me stay on track.

Even in our own goal setting, figuring out what you value so you stop wasting energy on goals you don't care about will help you be more successful all around. If you don't care about your weight or hiking every 14er isn't really important to you, take them off your to-do list. If writing your lesson plans in a certain format is important to your boss then figuring out how to align more with their values will help you meet your own goals of doing well on your evaluations.

This idea of regaining control is important for anytime we feel helpless or hopeless, and I'm going to look for more ways to create this in my own life. "Food works for me, I don't work for food," is a good example of one of the attitudes I need to adopt to gain control again over my diet.

I'd like to keep this in mind while working with students. There has to be a way to give students a feeling of being more in control of their goals so that they feel they can do more to help themselves.

I like to believe I have a very healthy growth mind-set but I know their our goals I've had that I've moved away from because they just feel so far away. Reading this I am going to revisit those ideas and see what can be done.

I had never really thought about this before but this connects back to fixed mind-set. We internalize our failures, we internalize the unconscious ways we hear others or ourselves talk about ourselves, and it changes what we think we can or can't do.

Resilience and grit are two of my favorite words, and this article grabbed my attention from the first line because how often do we focus of setting on what happens leading up to a big event or goal and not enough on what we will do if we are not successful?

Understanding what we are actually spending our time doing and how that work actually moves us closer (or perhaps away from) our goal is important in organizing ourselves.

Ditto.

Time. Again, so well said. It does take time to develop a talent. If I can help 6th graders start this process maybe by the time they are in college they will have a voice they are confident expressing.

You have just the right way of saying things, I totally connect with the feeling you are expressing here.

Isn't it amazing how this shift in focus happens, the event I went to at the library has dominated my imagination in terms of using it in class next "year".

I may know some books but you know so much about art. You help me see art past the splatters of paint, and I'll help you see past the typing to the literature.

One week down, seven more to go

I imagine anything you put your mind to ;)

Thank you for your honesty, I think it helps to hear that we all struggle when we start something new. Your hard work shows.

I think your blog looks really professional. It's clean and easy to follow, I need to play around with some of my settings too (I hadn't even really thought to before).

Glad to hear I am not the only one. I have been stressing about this class since before it started but after ten days of getting use to Twitter and a messy desktop I also feel more confident.

I have to tell you, I love the cat. And I've felt the same way many times this week too. Glad we are in this together.

Yes we do, we know if its meaningful to students they will do their best, but if its not they are disengaged.

An interesting discourse, looking for ways that incoming information can benefit us. I often have my students in the back of my mind, not just at the museum but also the grocery store. I'm always looking for a way to help them understand too.

Awesome insight. Thanks for sharing (and for being willing to take a risk).

This is what I love about the reflection part of goal setting. How did it go, did it work out just like you thought it would? What was different? What could we change? And then setting out on another voyage.

Getting students to get this, life goal.

Truth. It's our Tribes that help us, support us, get us. (Oh and I'll have to finger snap for #ilt5430 because this is straight up what they are saying about this whole internet thing bringing us closer together)

Reflection and Revising Goals is such a forgotten or overlooked part of being successful.

Interesting way of looking at things. Collaboration. Delegation is such an interesting thing to look at in terms of prioritizing and goal setting.

Slogans.

Remind myself why am I doing this.

This ties into intrinsic motivation, if its important then its worth doing.

As a teacher how do you connect 52 individuals to these ideas within themselves?

We need to show people through action what they mean to us. Putting them at the top of your list shows that. Knowing your name shows that you matter, putting you on my list shows that you are important; students, teachers/coworkers, friends, family.

Somewhere there is a book (it maybe this one but I can't remember right now) that has you focus on your roles (career, wife, daughter, artist) and select goals that way. Helpful to have a wife goal, you'd be surprised what you learn about yourself.

Love this.

"A person rush-ing an email message to head office as she hands her boarding pass to the airlineattendant at the entrance to the aircraft boarding ramp is recognizable (to othersand herself ) as a particular kind of person ."

That was from my required reading for a class I am taking and it reminded me of a few things.

Being busy is not the same as being productive.

Where we focus our attention and how is important.

Have you ever focused on the right thing in the wrong way? I know I have, and it only made things worse. Self help books offer a variety of ways to prioritize or organize your day but you have to experiment with the method that works best for you, that focuses on the things that matter to you.

Trying to get rock my daily creates, here's Numero Dos The creative parts are starting to flow but the technical issues continue to concern me. Am I getting around to all the different posts, am I tagging everything correctly? Did I remember to spell check?

Nightmare! But here is my first Daily Create