Posts in Imagine a World

May 2nd, 2010 in Feature Content, Imagine a World

Revisiting All Good Teachers Need Agents

This is the seventh in a series of posts where we re-visit articles I penned for our Imagine a World series. In each of these repostings, I share some background for the original article and we also provide audio responses from guest contributors. In this post, we explore my article on the idea of teachers not receiving traditional tenure, but rather having agents that negotiate their contracts, posted originally on January 16th, Read Article

May 1st, 2010 in Feature Content, Imagine a World

Revisiting CampusRecorder for Easy Studying

This is the fifth in a series of posts where we re-visit articles I penned for our Imagine a World series. In each of these repostings, I share some background for the original article and we also provide audio responses from guest contributors. In this post, we explore my article on a potential device that would capture all conversations, images, and writings that take place in a classroom, posted originally on February 12th, Read Article

April 30th, 2010 in Feature Content, Imagine a World

Revisiting 3D Lectures

This is the fifth in a series of posts where we re-visit articles I penned for our Imagine a World series. In each of these repostings, I share some background for the original article and we also provide audio responses from guest contributors. In this post, we explore my article on future of lecture settings, posted originally on January 29th, Read Article

April 29th, 2010 in Feature Content, Imagine a World

Revisiting the Game Props as Learning Devices

This is the fourth in a series of posts where we re-visit articles I penned for our Imagine a World series. In each of these repostings, I share some background for the original article and we also provide audio responses from guest contributors. In this post, we explore my article on game props as future learning devices, posted originally on December 11th, Read Article

April 28th, 2010 in Feature Content, Imagine a World

Revisiting Embedded Communication Devices

This is the third in a series of posts where we re-visit articles I penned for our Imagine a World series. In each of these repostings, I share some background for the original article and we also provide audio responses from guest contributors. In this post, we explore my article on embedded communication devices (ComE’s), posted originally on January 24th, Read Article

April 27th, 2010 in Feature Content, Imagine a World

Revisiting Real-Life Portfolios

This is the second in a series of posts where we re-visit articles I penned for our Imagine a World series. In each of these repostings, I share some background for the original article and we also provide audio responses from guest contributors. In this post, we explore my article on Real-Life Portfolios, posted originally on February 19th, Read Article

April 25th, 2010 in Feature Content, Imagine a World

Revisiting Facebook University

This is the first in a series of posts where we re-visit articles I penned for our Imagine a World series. In each of these repostings, I share some background for the original article and we also provide audio responses from guest contributors. In this post, we explore my article on Facebook University, posted originally on January 8th, Read Article

March 26th, 2010 in Feature Content, Imagine a World

The Gifted Educator Program

Imagine a world where educators stand and declare – “Every child in our school is gifted.” It’s a world where Gifted Student Programs are tailored to recognize and encourage each child’s unique giftedness, a world that flourishes as individual students come to believe in their equal ability to contribute along with their peers. Now imagine this world is just around the corner Read Article

March 19th, 2010 in Feature Content, Imagine a World

The Human Turing Test

Imagine a world where invigorating, robust ideas are splashed across the news rags at the check-out stand, where it never occurs to family and friends to ponder the personal, private tragedies of others, where individual mental discourse lifts the world higher and higher … Read Article

February 26th, 2010 in Imagine a World

RKM and the Master Learner Movement

Imagine a world where learning is measured in terms of understand and actual proficiency as opposed to rote memorization or isolated skills and flat information. Imagine a new system, widely supported, that asks teachers to become Master Learners and in which traditional tests lose their importance Read Article