Haulin' 'Net   Where Information and Ideas Flow Freely . . . at no extra charge   by Joe Poletti Related Links • CCPSS TechMedia • Holiday on Sand • Mariner Musings Blog • How to be Heard • Loud Librarian • Mayo's Calculus Blog • Cougar Chronicle • Click o' the Mouse • Butler's Bio Blog • Lancaster's Late Edition • From the Books • HEAR ME! • Check It Out! • MMS Principal's Corner Titles 2/17 Haulin' 'Net 2006 1/21 Smart in America 1/18 Achieving our Destiny 1/3 Destiny Library 12/20 More Awesome Media 12/18 'Tis the Season 12/5 The Challenges Ahead 11/23 Student Voices: Deep Thinkers at Work 11/22 Oh Where, Oh Where Did My Computer Lab Go? 11/16 Student Voices from the Middle Ground 11/8 Student Voices: Poetry and Prose 11/3 Student Voices: A Political Teen Earns Readership 10/30 Rough Outlines, State-wide Recognition, and Formative Assessment as Qualitative Stories 10/17 Compelling Stories Told and Untold, Part II 10/13 Compelling Stories Told and Untold, Part I 10/9 Deep Dive 4: The Mayo Blogging Machine 10/6 Blogs are so five-minutes ago... 10/4 Our People's Voices on Web 2.0 9/27 Deep Dive 3: Comments Anyone? 9/26 David Warlick Kool-Aid 9/20 Deep Dive 2: A Purr-fect Response 9/10 Deep Dive 1: The Butler Did It! 8/23 Expanding our Students' Opportunities to Practice Literacy 8/14 Brain-based Futuring 8/10 You Say You Want a Revolution 8/9 The Learning Theory of Connectivism List 25, 50, all   Today is May 18, 2006 David Warlick Kool-Aid Last week, we drank the Kool-Aid. David Warlick came to town and for three days mixed a compelling brew...the digital elixir of our times. The recipe? Combine equal shots of social software and emergent models of literacy. Add innate curiosity as needed. Garnish with a twist of Wikipedia. Aggregate with XML and RSS. PING! You have a del.icio.us blog-grog sure to make heads spin. Here's the reaction of one workshop participant: "WOW!!! This man is an expert in his field. At the workshops I have attended this week he presented lots of challenging ideas that can help to improve all of the RAW (Reading, Arithmetic, & Writing) Skills. If teachers can incorporate blogging and enhance literacy, kids will become much more prepared for the 21st century. We have to prepare them with knowledge and literacy, not just technology—some of them can even teach us a few things as our learning never ends either. Today’s students are comfortable with IMing, websurfing, and blogging. Thus, in order to compete for their attention, we as educators have to support their creativity, challenge their critical thinking and encourage them to become communicators and investigators. In the not-so-distant future, they will no longer be handed a textbook that is assumed to be truth, but they will exercise their communication/literacy skills by exploring and proving the validity and authenticity of the digital information that they read." David alluded to The World is Flat (Friedman). Here is the link to Friedman's one-hour video lecture at MIT. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Comments The computer you are commenting from has an id number. It is 209.237.238.224! Name: Your comment will be delivered to the teacher, for approval. When it has been approved, the comment will be added to this author's blog. Thank you! E-mail: URL of Your Blog (optional): Your Comment: Enter the word to the right: About the Blogger: Whether a Yellow Jacket, a Yosef, an Achiever, a Cardinal, a Patriot, a Pirate, a Charger, a Cougar or an Eggie -- Joe has witnessed the power of technology as a tool to support and enhance teaching and learning. He is forever curious about such possibilities. He is an experienced collaborator, designer, and presenter of staff development for the successful implementation and integration of technology in learning environments. Technorati Profile Login Copyright (c) 2005 by Joe Poletti BlogMeister