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Sir Ken Robinson’s keynote today at CiTE 2008 was refreshing and stimulating. His thoughts on how our antiquated education system squashes creativity led my mind down a lot of paths. Add this keynote together with the Educon 2.0 conference, and my mind has way too much to chew on.

So – here’s a thought. What if we started an un-school?

What if we leverage the power of social-networking and web 2.0 (3.0?) technologies to assist students to learn and measure their learning. Not asses – measure. What if teachers weren’t teachers in this un-school. What if, instead, we become learning coaches? Helping students to identify what they want/need to learn and then help them harness the power of the Network to gain their instruction and understanding. What if we charge ourselves with motivating and encouraging instead of “instructing”?

What would it take to do this? Who would it take to do this?

This might get dangerous…and very, very interesting.

Pete Rettler and Lisa Rameker
Moraine Park Technical College
Wisconsin

Worked with Purdue

OMG – They are using a “talking rabbit” and citing that they like to use “Cutting Edge Technology”.
Hare Raising. (Their joke – not mine)
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I had the opportunity to sit down with Glenn Moses at the recent CiTE eCollege Users conference in Denver, Colorado. Glen (Mr. Moses to you, thanks so much) is the Assistant Principal at Odyssey Charter High School in Las Vegas, NV. I asked him for his thoughts on the state of online learning overall. Given the amount of experience he has attending and speaking at conferences such as these, he’s had a lot of exposure to what’s going on out there. We also discussed the dichotomy he lives everyday: teaching kids in a constructivst social-networking style within a school system that lives and breathes standardized testing results. Glenn’s views are – as always – insightful and strong. Enjoy!

 

 Glenn Moses Interview: CiTE 2008 [6:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download