How Did I Learn Today?

Yet another fruitful line of inquiry is this - how do I myself learn?

How did I learn today?

1) I went to the K12 Online Conference blog and found an archived presentation that sounded interesting. I viewed it on Elluminate, and listened to the VoiceThread responses that followed... Scott McLeod's presentation on leadership being ill-prepared to cope with disruptive innovations
2) I downloaded to my Kindle an electronic sample of a book Scott mentioned, Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation WILL Change the Way the World Learns
3) I logged into the Great Conversation Ning and found out that I had missed the first Paideia seminar in Second Life!
4) I read the seminar text, Kurt Vonnegut's EPICAC
5) I Check out the archived USTREAM at www.bookosphere.net/ and the photos here in the Ning.
6) I logged in late to Classroom 2.0 Live Talking K12Online, but was able to listen to the after-talk discussion. I familiarized myself with Elluminate features since I had not really used this before. 
7) I finished reading an eBook I had previously downloaded, Curtis Bonk's The World Is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. I had just seen that Curtis Bonk will be on Classroom 2.0 Live  this coming Thursday night.
8) I copied several events from Classroom 2.0 Live calendar onto my Google calendar to which I have a link on my professional learning community's wiki to help inform my group members about learning opportunities.
9) I read new blog posts via my feeds in Bloglines.
10) I blogged. This is my first attempt at blogging, and I am still learning!


I guess that's it. None of this was in a traditional classroom. I paid no tuition. I will receive absolutely no credit for my learning today.
What about you? How did you learn today?

Who Are The Learners?

Let's start at the beginning. Before we can figure out how to change education for the better, we might want to ask just who are we trying to educate?

Don Tapscott gives an eye-opening look at who is currently in our classrooms in Grown Up Digital. Reading this has changed the way I think about my students.

Don Tapscott's Website - Grown Up Digital

Open Access Education?

I wonder if we should be thinking more along the lines of open access education?
The video below makes a rather good case that an open access approach has helped the human race with regard to the H1N1 outbreak this year...

Jennifer Gardy's H1N1 TEDxTerry talk

The Question We Should Be Asking

What should Career Center 2.0 be like?

Preparing to move our school to a new location and new building in 2011 presents a perfect opportunity to reevaluate our education model. Time to ask a bunch of questions.

21NOV2009 Winston-Salem Journal article about Career Center move

Some questions asked and answered by Allen Manser in the video below

Conscious Learning in the Conceptual Age TEDxTerry talk