Shift Happens!

Don’t let this scare you.  Just be aware that constant learning has to be the way we GROW along with the change.

Crystal O’Connor Interviews Angela Maiers with Maiers Education Services

Bored with 21st Century Skills? Get over It

By: Mike Sansone

Blogs and Social Media as Conversation Stations
I hear a lot of business people, teachers, educators — and some edubloggers — who are already tired of the term “21st Century Skills.”  Get over it!  The term is going to be around for a long, long time. The definition? Possibly ever-evolving.
I remember [...]

Don’t Teach your kids this stuff..Please??

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Don’t teach your kids this stuff. Please?
By Scott Mcleod, J.D, PH.D.

dear parent
teacher
administrator
board member
don’t teach your kids to read
for the Web
to scan
RSS
aggregate
synthesize

don’t teach your kids to write
online
pen and paper aren’t going anywhere
since when do kids need an audience?
no need to hyperlink
make videos
audio
Flash
no connecting, now
no social networking
or online chat
or comments
or PLNs
blogs and twitter?
how self-absorbed
what a bunch [...]

Reading WITHOUT Meaning – The Conversation Continues

Reading WITHOUT Meaning – The Conversation Continues
By: Angela Maiers

One of the things that I love most about the blogosphere is that the conversation never ends.  We deepen understanding when we revisit and reflect on our words and they way in which they are heard by another.  It is exciting to [...]

Crystal O’Connor interviews Angela Maiers with Maiers Education Services

Do Schools today Kill Creativity?

Passion..a Difference Maker

Passion is the most critical, creative and disruptive force in teaching and learning.

Close your eyes for just a few minutes and recall your favorite teacher of all time – anyone from kindergarten to graduate school. Now, consider what brought that individual to mind. What about that person made a difference [...]

Where Conversations are Hushed, Creativity is Stunted

In this TED talk video, Clay Shirky says we are witnessing the end of the era of top-down control, and a big reason is the social prowess of tools such as Facebook, Twitter, and SMS and TXT messaging.
There is an important message not to miss here: Where conversation is hushed and (attempted [...]

Drowning in Social Media?

By Angela Maiers
Maiers Educational Services
Drowning in Social Media? – Just Breathe!
Tweets, wikis, blogs, Nings, links, networks, ahhhh! I sometimes feel like I could drown in social media! This was the topic of our discussion on a recent turn of Steve Hardagon’s Classroom 2.0 Live Show. Inspired by Merlin Man’s Inbox Zero, an action-based mantra for [...]

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