by Wesley Fryer, Moving at the Speed of Creativity
This morning on The Today Show, hosts interviewed a San Diego family which was challenged to give up cell phones, computers and TV for an entire day. In addition, Tony Schwartz (author of “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance” addressed the need we have to take proactive control over the technology devices which seem to direct many of our lives.
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The statistic from this segment which really got my attention was the following, from Tony:
7 out of 10 families do NOT set limits for text messaging.
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“more technological power in their pockets than sitting on the desks”
By Brad Flickinger of the School Technology blog.
Yesterday, I went back to school shopping with my soon-to-be 16 year-old daughter, and somehow we ended up in the AT&T store with my daughter explaining to me that the new iPhone 4 was at the top of her list…
- iPhone 4
- notebooks
- pencils
- new backpack
- etc.
Get the idea?
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Education Nation: Six Leading Edges of Innovation in our Schools (Jossey-Bass) by Dr. Milton Chen, senior fellow and executive director emeritus at the George Lucas Educational Foundation. In it, he poses this challenge: “Imagine an Education Nation, a learning society where the education of children and adults is the highest national priority, on par with a strong economy, high employment, and national security.”
In Education Nation, Dr. Chen has curated and organized the Edutopia.org collection of films and articles according to what he sees as the six “edges” of innovations redefining K-12 schools, teaching, and learning. They are:The Thinking Edge
- The Edge of Curriculum
- The Technology Edge
- The Edge of Time and Place
- The Co-Teaching Edge
- The Youth Edge
Education Nation is the book for information about the most innovative learning environments, addressing Edutopia’s core strategies of project-based learning, cooperative learning, technology integration, social and emotional learning, comprehensive assessment, and teacher development for implementing these practices.
Education Nation embraces a new age of 24/7 learning, with students at the center, supported by teachers, parents and community members.
Read more and order your copy of Education Nation today!
Register for an upcoming webinar (8/26) with Milton Chen on Education Nation. Read more about this webinar.
Follow Milton’s blog on education innovation on Edutopia.org.
