constructivism

Title: Beyond "Schooly" Flat Classroom Projects to "Natural" Networked Learning

Description: My guest for this podcast is Dean Shareski, instructor of a 21st Century Education class at University of Regina, Canada, and Technology Coordinator of the Saskatchewan School District. This wide-ranging talk focuses primarily on creating _natural_ global collaboration for students, project-based and student-designed, in order to get away from the one-size-fits-all model informing most globally collaborative projects.

Format: 256Kbps MP3

collaboration, constructivism, education, flat classroom, project-based learning, Skype, Twitter

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Title: Networked Learning Podcast with International Educators

Description: Here’s another Skype conference call, “quick-in, quick-out,” with people who simply answered a Twitter invitation from me here in Seoul, Korea, to discuss ways to make my Personal Learning Network / Communication Arts English Seminar better. Most of the conversation is with Corrie Bergeron of Cleveland, Ohio - “educator, husband, father, musician, aviation nut” - and a very smart man, with whom I’ve never spoken before submitting a one-line tweet to my Twitter network. He’s interested in this class, and took 40 minutes to discuss it with me instantly. Other people in my Twitter network came in later: George Mayo of Maryland, USA; Jabiz Raisdana, an international school teacher in Doha, Qatar; and Madeline Brownstone, a teacher and New York City National Writing Project advisor. I’ve talked to George a couple of times, but this was the first voice-to-voice with Jabiz and Madeline. Let me spell a couple things out: Twitter, Skype, and this blog have very quickly combined into an instant-meeting medium for me to learn from people around the world who are interested in helping me succeed at what I’m trying to do in my own project-based learning - which just happens to be about using the new tools to allow students to learn in new ways. This podcast is at once a datum of and a discussion about Personal Learning Networks.

Format: MP3 (other)

constructivism, education, networks, pln, project-based learning, Skype, Twitter

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