At my school, we’re a week away from spring break, which couldn’t come at a better time.
Of course, this year spring break means “taking 18 students to London as part of a course with a colleague.” It should be fun (and educational!), but it doesn’t sound like a break!
(Pro tip for London in March: Make sure everything’s waterproof!)
But that’s a week away still.
- David Wiley’s posted his notes from his recent TEDxNYED talk on openness in education: Education has to some degree lost its way; forgotten its identity. We’ve allowed ourselves and our institutions to be led away from our core value of openness – away from generosity, sharing, and giving, and toward selfishness, concealment, and withholding. To the degree that we have deserted openness, learning has suffered. (The slides are available, too!)
- Jim Groom draws on The Wire to explain what any child should grasp–the impossibility of doing more with less: And herein lies the crux of my argument, we cannot effectively do more with less, rather we need to re-think our relationships as thinkers, learners, and teachers apart from the institutions rather than within them.
- We are awfully fond of Mozilla’s JetPack project, so seeing this story about their poaching a design was distressing (via Daring Fireball)
- Mimi Ito has posted a smart talk on social media, playing to learn, and intergenerational tension/anxiety: Instead of shutting out these out-of-school experiences through regulation and monitoring, instead of complaining about the corrosive effects of entertainment media and kids peer culture, we need to work proactively to close this gap and change the role that schools play in kids’ learning. (via Clay Shirky on delicious)
- New from Google: Public Data Explorer lets you visualize public information in interesting ways.
Finally, for this week’s video: David Allen, whose Getting Things Done methodology lurks behind a lot of this site, explains the essence of GTD:
All this productivity stuff is moot, though–in the long run, we’re all DOOOMED.
(Image by me.)
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