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[|Senior Project Blog] This blog comes from the Senior Project Center. Do we need to look into training and certification? Dorothy, this sounds like a great avenue for you! You can also follow them on Twitter.

[|Excerpts from students essays on "senioritis"] (from Brian's Tech Apps II class)
 * Martin Haberman, "The Pedagogy of Poverty vs. Good Teaching"**

[|The Lost Opportunity of Senior Year: Finding a Better Way]

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/18/nyregion/18SENI.html?pagewanted=1

http://bul.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/65/445/111

Patrick Bassett, President of NAIS, makes a case for [|"Demonstrations of Learning"]
"The “essential demonstrations” that follow could be gathered in a student’s electronic portfolio that follows him or her through the various stages of education, documenting and preserving stages of learning and presenting in ways far more comprehensively than standardized testing a student’s preparedness for the next level of schooling. What we believe is that demonstrations of learning marry skills with content, develop the multiple intelligences, connect thought with action, and exemplify the skills and values for the 21st century that students will need from schools and colleges.

Here’s a first draft of the demonstrations that we very quickly identified as key to graduating students who will be well educated and well prepared to solve the problems they will need to address as citizens in the future:


 * 1) Conduct a fluent conversation in a foreign language about a piece of writing in that language.
 * 2) Write a cogent and persuasive opinion piece on a matter of public importance.
 * 3) Declaim with passion and from memory a passage that is meaningful — of one’s own or from the culture’s literature or history.
 * 4) Produce or perform a work of art.
 * 5) Construct and program a robot capable of performing a difficult physical task.
 * 6) Exercise leadership.
 * 7) Using statistics, assess whether or not a statement by a public figure is demonstrably true.
 * 8) Assess media coverage of a global event from various cultural/national perspectives.
 * 9) Describe a breakthrough for a team on which you served and to which you contributed to overcoming a human-created obstacle so that the team could succeed in its task.
 * 10) Demonstrate a commitment to creating a more sustainable future with means that are scalable.

That list of six essential skills cited earlier in this article? Demonstrations of learning are how we would know them to be manifest in schools and colleges. And deciding what the right list would be for individual schools and colleges would be a meaningful conversation for faculty and educational leaders. So here’s the charge: At your school or college, what is your list of //10 Demonstrations of Learning// that should be the exit ticket indicating the school’s work is done, validating the student readiness for the next stage of schooling or life?"

Will Richardson, [|"Footprints in the Digital Age"]
"It's a consequence of the new Web 2.0 world that these digital footprints—the online portfolios of who we are, what we do, and by association, what we know—are becoming increasingly woven into the fabric of almost every aspect of our lives. In all likelihood, you, your school, your teachers, or your students are already being Googled on a regular basis, with information surfacing from news articles, blog posts, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, and Facebook This may be the first large technological shift in history that's being driven by children. Picture a bus. Your students are standing in the front; most teachers (maybe even you) are in the back, hanging on to the seat straps as the bus careens down the road under the guidance of kids who have never been taught to steer and who are figuring it out as they go. In short, for a host of reasons, we're failing to empower kids to use one of the most important technologies for learning that we've ever had. One of the biggest challenges educators face right now is figuring out how to help students create, navigate, and grow the powerful, individualized networks of learning that bloom on the Web and helping them do this effectively, ethically, and safely. The new literacy means being able to function in and leverage the potential of easy-to-create, collaborative, transparent online groups and networks, which represent a "tectonic shift" in the way we need to think about the world and our place in it (Shirky, 2008). This shift requires us to create engaged learners, not simply knowers, and to reconsider the roles of schools and educators."

==John Sealy Brown and Richard P. Adler, [|"Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0"]== "The latest evolution of the Internet, the so-called Web 2.0, has blurred the line between producers and consumers of content and has shifted attention from access to information toward access to other people. New kinds of online resources—such as social networking sites, blogs, wikis, and virtual communities—have allowed people with common interests to meet, share ideas, and collaborate in innovative ways. Indeed, the Web 2.0 is creating a new kind of participatory medium that is ideal for supporting multiple modes of learning."

"In a traditional Cartesian educational system, students may spend years learning about a subject; only after amassing sufficient (explicit) knowledge are they expected to start acquiring the (tacit) knowledge or practice of how to be an active practitioner/professional in a field.9 But viewing learning as the process of joining a community of practice reverses this pattern and allows new students to engage in “learning to be” even as they are mastering the content of a field. This encourages the practice of what John Dewey called “productive inquiry”—that is, the process of seeking the knowledge when it is needed in order to carry out a particular situated task."

"Learning occurs in part through a form of reflective practicum, but in this case the reflection comes from being embedded in a community of practice that may be supported by both a physical and a virtual presence and by collaboration between newcomers and professional practitioners/scholars."  Report on Student Engagement media type="custom" key="5204999" media type="custom" key="5205007"

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 * Video: Students vs. Learners 2.0: "The Quiz"**


 * Reading Other Teachers' Blogs

[|dy/dan: Math Blog]**

Ideas for how to use web 2.0 tools with [|Drive's "Two Questions"] Classroom 2.0 Webinar: [|Interview with Daniel Pink]

===**Laura Deisley, //Architecture of Ideas.// Blog.** [|"Student Researchers: Looking for Authentic Audience and Expert Voices"]=== Students at the Lovett School in Atlanta use wikis and video to establish expert panels to review their research.