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Download. This episode of TTT is a conversation about the future of the teaching and schooling in general.The idea for this week's episode of TTT came about when +Andrew McGuire, a student of +Chris Sloan's who had graduated from high school last year, told Chris that he wants to be an English teacher. But he wants a different kind of education than a lot of what he has received. Chris writes: He’s an education reformer at heart, and a lot of what he described as his ideal educational environment aligns with some of the people who’ve joined us on Teachers Teaching Teachers recently. He’s talking about connected learning in third spaces that involve a maker approach and is inquiry-based. So what would you tell an 18-year old who’s thinking about becoming an English teacher? Not only what Andrew and others like him should study, but how they should go about their teacher education? Along with Andrew we are joined by these educators: Meenoo Rami, Bryan Loftis, Troy Hicks, Scott Shelhart, Chris Lehmann. Enjoy! Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT Monika Hardy and her student, Cristian Leobardo lead us in a be lab update. We take a look at their revised Website, their book, and their travels http://redefineschool.com. Here's how Monika, her students and her colleagues describe their main foucus/premise: Public education could be the most accelerating venue for social change. Rather than waiting for any of the incredible [past, current and ongoing] innovations in redefining public education to scale, imagine we scale the individual. Imagine a new (old) narrative that can start anywhere because it begs no prep or training. Imagine we trust simplicity enough to give it a go. Imagine hastening equity, and ongoing sustainability.I’ve been working with youth the last four years, locally in Loveland Colorado, as well as virtually around the globe. We have been in an intense mode of experimenting with first, self-directed learning, and now, the intersection of city and school. We've been afforded an incubated space (sand box) within our city, as a connected adjacency (both in and out of) our school district. We are joined on this episode of TTT by Paul Allison, Scott and Kelsey Shelhart, Cristian Leobardo, Karen Fasimpaur, Gregory Hill, Monika Hardy, Mikhil Goyal Enjoy! This episode of TTT is also available at EdTechTalk.

Download. Find out more about Gooru http://goorulearning.org on this episode of TTT. This is the first in a series of webcasts in which we'll focus on Gooru, asking: How do you teach with Gooru? We'll be talking with teachers who use Gooru in their classrooms, asking them to share best practices and exchange ideas. And we'll dialogue with the Gooru team around what might be done to improve Gooru for all of us? If you're new to Gooru, here are three places to start your inquiries: You might take a look through the lens of Open Educational Resources (OER): Project Blue Sky: Big Boost to OER From . . . Pearson? Gooru Learning itself has a pedigree that is worth considering. Gooru is developed by Ednovo, the nonprofit education startup founded by Prasad Ram. Ram has a rich history in Silicon Valley, including work at Xerox PARC, Yahoo! and Google. While Director of Engineering for Google Research, Ram developed the concept for using search technology to discover educational content. Ram decided to leave Google in January 2011 and pursue this concept. Ram has started an education focused non-profit startup called Ednovo, which is going to build upon Gooru, a free web based education solution that was begun as a ’20% effort’ at Google, and piloted in India with 25 classrooms and 1000 students. Gooru allows teachers to use openly licensed web resources, find lesson plans on all subjects and topics and then customize it to their specific needs, with rich multimedia content including videos, slides, and simulations. You could take a dive into Kevin Hodgson's Meandering Mind and read his review, Gooru: Another Research Project Resource. So, this morning, I went to Gooru to poke around a bit and remember what it is about. When I had been there last, the site had recently launched and I wasn’t quite sure what they were up to. There didn’t seem to be a lot of content. Now I understand. The site is another way to help students streamline their research queries (sort of like Instagrok, which I use) and for teachers to build up “collections” of resources that can be shared. I like the overall feel of the site — it takes a few minutes to get a sense of what to do, but once you understand it, you will see there are powerful paths to follow. You might also go to Gooru themselves and find out that they want to help us "Spend More Time Learning–and Less Time Searching." Every day teachers and students scour the web to find the best resources to help them learn or teach, pulling from different resources scattered all over the Internet–but what if you could find and organize all the best web resources in one place? With Gooru, you can. Watch NASA videos about solar flares, play interactive games on PBS.com that teach about friction, and take quizzes on equations from Khan Academy. We aggregate the best of the web, giving you high-quality and free multimedia resources within seconds, so you can spend more time studying, and less time searching. When you find resources you love, you can then organize them into a playlist called a collection. You might also find out what you need to know to get started by listening to our inspiring guests for this episode of TTT: Paul Allison, Monika Hardy, and Chris Sloanhost Xenia Shih, Timothy Burke, and Jody Donovan from Gooru along with two amazing California teachers, Leah Jensen and Gail Desler. Enjoy! Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast and some important links to resources.

Download. On this episode of TTT, re-mix and get ready for EduCon 2.5 http://educonphilly.org with George Mayo, Harry Costner, and Bill Fitzgerald along with our friends Scott Shelhart and Kelsey Shelhart. A few weeks ago, George wrote in an email: Another teacher and I have this experiment for this year's Educon called @remixeducon http://educonphilly.org/conversations/remixeducon . We're planning on creating a structure for participants to share, download and remix media created throughout the conference. The other teacher's name is Harry Costner. He's a really cool middle school film teacher in Virginia. Would it be possible for us to pitch our @remixeducon idea on a TTT show sometime after the new year as we get closer to Educon? I'm trying to think of ways to spread the word about our project before the conference. How do you turn down an offer like that? In addition, Harry and George are doing a second session at Educon on Video Production and Social Media http://educonphilly.org/conversations/Video_Production_and_Social_Media:A_Powerful_Combination That's not all! When we heard that Bill Fitzgerald would be remixing at Educon too, we asked him what he’s up too. Here was his reply: We are definitely running a pre-Educon event – the details (and some of our thoughts about what we hope to achieve, big picture) are linked in this post: http://funnymonkey.com/when-we-talk-about-open-content-this-is-what-we-talk-about Our Educon session on this is at http://educonphilly.org/conversations/Adopting-Using-and_Reusing_Open_Content We are also doing a second session on starting a non-profit: http://educonphilly.org/conversations/So_You_Want_To_Start_an_Educational_Non-Profit Sounds like fun doesn’t it? Enjoy! This webcast is also available at EdTechTalk.

Download We are joined by colleagues from England and Australia on this episode of TTT as we follow-up with them on an earler conversations about blogging in elementary schools: http://edtechtalk.com/node/5156. Our goal is simple: we want to make plans for elementary school students to find and respond to each others blog posts this spring. Joining us on this episode of TTT are Makewaves’ Cliff Manning, KidBlog’s Matt Hardy, Sue Waters from EduBlogs, and some of us are from Youth Voices. We are also joined by David Mitchell, the Quadblogging guru and Linda Yollis an elementary school teacher in Los Angeles who Quadblogs her own way. Suzie Boss describes Quadblogging like this in a September 25, 2012 post in Edutopia: The idea is deceptively simple. Four teachers agree to have their students comment on each other's blogs in an organized fashion. Each week, one of the four gets a turn as the spotlight class. The other three classes visit and leave comments. Over the course of a month, every student's work gets read and commented upon. Along the way, students learn about respectful online communication. They may decide to revise their thinking if a commenter shares a perspective they haven't considered. On this episode of TTT Paul Allison, @paulallison is joined by Cliff Manning, @cliffmanning, Sue Waters, @suewaters, David Mitchell, @DeputyMitchell, Gail Desler, @gaildesler, Linda Yollis, @lindayollis, Matt Hardy, @hardy101, and Suzie Boss, @suzieboss. On his blog, David Mitchell describes Quadblogging like this: QuadBlogging is a leg up to an audience for your class/school blog. Over the last 12 months 100,000 pupils have been involved in QuadBlogging from 3000 classes in 40 countries…. A Blog needs an audience to keep it alive for your learners. Too often blogs wither away leaving the learners frustrated and bored. Quadblogging gives your blog a truly authentic and global audience that will visit your blog, leave comments and return on a cycle. Here’s how it works: You sign up using the form below, shortly after, you will be allocated a Quad four schools/classes including your own. Each Quad has a co-ordinator who is responsible for making sure each of the quad members know what is going on and when. Each week one blog is the focus blog with the other three blogs visiting and commenting during that week. In week two, another school/class blog is the focus with the other three visiting and commenting. This is repeated until each of the classes/schools has had their week in the spotlight. The cycle is then repeated. However, this time, your pupils know what is coming – They will work harder than you have seen them work in order to get content on their blog! QuadBlogging has been mentioned very highly in recent OfSTED Reports here in the UK and praised for offering opportunities for:“profound impact in developing pupils’ team working, communication and problem-solving skills.” It’s simple – Give it a try, sign up here. This webcast is also available at EdTechTalk.

Download. Enjoy our first show in 2013 on TTT with +Karen Fasimpaur @kfasimpaur. Karen talks about a new opportunity she is providing for youths on P2PU: Youth Maker Space – Jan.-Mar. 2013 p2pu.org/en/groups/maker-space This group is for youth (13 and over) and teachers. It is a place to make stuff — like digital stories, food, electronics, apps, robots, rockets, clothes, and more — and to share with others. There are short projects that just take an hour or so and bigger projects that might take several days. Just choose whatever you want to work on and go! (With thanks for support provided by the Shuttleworth Foundation) Karen describes more here: k12opened.com/blog/archives/1170 On this episode of TTT, Paul Allison @paulallison was joined by Karen Fasimpaur @kfasimpaur, Paul Oh, @poh, Terry Elliott @tellio, and Timothy Burke @Gooruteacher for a lively start to the New Year on TTT! Happy New Year!   This is also published at EdTechTalk.

Download. So you want your K-6 students to blog because you want them to have an audience beyond your classroom. What do you do? Do you set up a blog for each student or for your class, perhaps using http://edublogs.org? Do you join us at http://youthvoices.net or do you join http://kidblog.org ? And there are plenty of other choices. But here's the rub: How do you get your students' posts out there in the world to get responses from K-6 students like them? How can be build a stronger community of elementary school teachers whose students are blogging together? We would like to invite you to help us consider some of these questions with the amazing educators on this episode of TTT. Gail Desler, Gail Poulin, Kevin Hodgson, Margaret Simon, Matt Hardy, Paul Allison, Suzie Boss, and Tony Iannone Consider QuadBlogging and other complications around having your own class EduBlog or working in a community like Youth Voices or KidBlog, and the problems and delights of having different ages working together, or not? Gail Desler and Kevin Hodgson started this conversation in November at NCTE and they would like to see if it might not be possible to get something started with NWP elementary school teachers around some sort of community that gets more and more comments flowing. Here's Gail's recent email that led us to schedule a TTT around this topic: I would love to head into the New Year with some shared discussions on creating an elementary community of digital kids/digital writers that would lead into YouthVoices, but would actually be its own community. As I mentioned to both of you at NCTE, I'm spurred on by Suzie Boss's (who will be joining us on TTT) recent Edutopia post: http://www.edutopia.org/blog/quad-blogging-technology-classroom-suzie-boss Just seems like a perfect NWP project – that would be pretty easy to initiate and maintain. That's not all! On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, we plan a follow-up conversation with many of the same people on this episode. Join us at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday, 1.9.13 at 5PM ET/2PM PT/World Times: http://goo.gl/024pD </center> Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT, two students, Erika Auger (9th Grader from Wiscasset, Maine) and Kelsey Shelhart (8th Grader from Wheatfield, Indiana) join Paul Allison (NYC) and Monika Hardy (Loveland, Colorado) to tell stories that answer a couple of questions posed by our friends at One Day on Earth: What do you have? What do you need? On the TTT episode before this one TTT#326, we met founder Kyle Ruddick and Co-Author of One Day on Earth Educational Materials, Daniel Lichtblau: TTT#326 Think Global, Act Local with Youth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZR4ZwWfkCU&feature=youtu.be&t=4m04s . This episode of TTT is our contribution to One Day on Earth 12.12.12: two teachers learning by listening to two students, all thousands of miles away from each other. Enjoy! Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT, we do our best to help Eighth-grader Kelsey make connections with people like Leah Qusba from the Alliance for Climate Education: and Kyle Ruddick, the founder of One Day On Earth. Enjoy the conversation, and consider ways of collaborating with us on some our plans together. Paul Allison, Scott and Kelsey Shelhart, Monisha Nelson, Daniel Lichblau and Kyle Ruddick, Leah Qusba, Monika Hardy, and Cristian Buendia On the previous episode of TTT#325 – Youth Night with Monisha Nelson, Kelsey Shelhart, Cristian Buendia, Jessica Morgan, Tommy Buteau, Jeff Lebow 11.28.12, we asked a few youths what changes they wanted to make happen. Kelsey said that she wanted to start an environmental club in her school. On this episode we do our best to help her! Our guests this week offer ways to help Kelsey — and all of us with something to DO around climate change and taking a global perspective. Here are some notes added by our guests during the live webcast: It's appropriate to be talking about this while the UN Climate Change Conference in Doha, Qatar http://us.oneworld.net/doha?gclid=CKur-47QhLQCFYuZ4AodxyUA6A One Day on Earth – next event on 12-12-12 http://www.onedayonearth.org/page/participate Participation Information on the above link. Together, we are showcasing the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occurs in one day. We invite you to join our international community of thousands of filmmakers, hundreds of schools, and dozens of non-profits, and contribute to this unique global mosaic. One Day on Earth is a community that not only watches, but participates. Global Song project http://www.onedayonearth.org/group/globalsongDownload the guide tracks, and on 12.12.12, record yourself on video playing an instrument, singing or dancing along with the guide track and send us your video/audio. A facebook event exists for this as well at: http://www.facebook.com/events/178722825599845/ Download Trash Bash Action Plan-great questions to guide planning! https://www.box.com/s/l08l15njn9fy5vl0nu4l and http://acespace.org/waste/projects/trash_bash Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. How can we get out of their way even more? http://youtu.be/LsMew9Bamhg Recently on TTT we've been inviting students to join us. Our recent interest in putting young people at the center of our conversations was re-sparked on this episode of Youth Night on TTT. Our guests are: Monisha Nelson Jeff Lebow Kelsey Shelhart             Cristian Buendia Jackie Morgan Tommy Buteau Perhaps you know a student, a son or daughter, brother or sister who might want to join our efforts on TTT to turn our show over to youths to plan impromptu and scheduled webcasts via Hangouts On Air that will allow them to deepen their conversations with each other and to amplify their voices. Enjoy this week's open, chaotic, ground-level planning session, and invite a student to join us soon in this ongoing set of conversations.   Links for taking action: Jeff Lebow's Guide to Streaming, Recording, & Publishing a Hangout On Air: http://jefflebow.net/how-to-stream-record-publish-google-hangout-on-air Hangouts On Air: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/google-hangouts-on-air-broadcast-your.html Activating Hangouts On Air if your school has Google Apps for Education: http://goo.gl/BznY6 Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download Enjoy this special episode of TTT, recorded in Las Vagas. We live-streamed our session and this is a recording of that event. Here's the program description: This panel will discuss innovative models of professional development that include peer collaboration, self-directed learning, active involvement, and learning communities. We will give models for using social media for professional activities and we'll share a wide variety of resources and brainstorm how to involve teachers in driving their own personal learning to improve student learning and the profession as a whole. Chair: Karen Fasimpaur K12 Open Ed, Portal, Arizona - Speaker: Paul Allison The Bronx Academy Senior High School, New York - Speaker: Harry Brake American School Foundation Librarian, Mexico City, Mexico - Speaker: Christina Cantrill National Writing Project, Berkeley, California - Speaker: Paul Oh National Writing Project, Berkeley, California - Karen's reflections and notes, posted on her blog K12 Open Ed on November 26, 2012: Last week, I had the privilege of facilitating a panel at NCTE called “Open Learning: Empowering Teachers Through Professional Development.” Anyone who knows me knows that I have become a big believer in open models of professional learning through spaces like Twitter, P2PU, TTT, Digital Is, and others. This session was all about that. (Slides below. Also, we live streamed the session, thanks to Paul Allison, and the video is here.) To me, these new models of professional learning are all about value, openness, self-direction, agency, and authenticity. It’s time to reject PD that doesn’t achieve these goals. At the end of the session, we asked everyone to choose a few words that summarized what they thought the future of professional learning should be. Here they are.   Please add a comment with your own thoughts on this and join us in one of the many online spaces to explore this further.

Download. Learn more about the Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA) democraticeducation.org on this episode of TTT , with our guests: From the IDEA site: Democratic education is not a type of school or research-based practice. It isn’t one kind of learning program or philosophy. It is a frame. It’s a way of gathering together a vast and powerful set of ideas, philosophies of learning, research, school models, teaching practices, policies, and community visions so that a powerful story can be told that reclaims the “public” in public education—that is, education owned by all of us. This is an ongoing discussion on TTT and we invite you to join us any Wednesday evening to reclaim the public in public education. Come on over to TTT edtechtalk.com/ttt at 9PM ET/6PM PT Until the nuanced story is clear, truthful and told by and large by those who are experiencing the greatest suffering (ie: young people), the solutions generated will not be the ones our city needs. —Jayeesha Dutta Click Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. On this episode of TTT, we learn more about EduCon2013 with our guests: Meenoo Rami, Chad Sansing, Mary Beth Hertz, Paul Oh, Sam Reed, and Chris Lehmann What's EduCon? http://educonphilly.org "Educon is both a conversation and a conference." It is an innovation conference where we can come together, both in person and virtually, to discuss the future of schools. Every session will be an opportunity to discuss and debate ideas – from the very practical to the big dreams. The Axioms: The guiding principles behind Educon: 1) Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members2) Our schools must be about co-creating – together with our students – the 21st Century Citizen3) Technology must serve pedagogy, not the other way around4) Technology must enable students to research, create, communicate and collaborate5) Learning can – and must – be networked Questions? Comments? Email: educon@scienceleadership.org Register to attend EduCon 2.5 educonphilly.org Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.

Download. Teachers Teaching Teachers #323Reclaiming the public in public education (part#2) November 14, 2012 Participants Links Mentioned The Disruption Department: http://thedisruptiondepartment.org/ Gregory's Cookie Cheat Tweeter: http://thedisruptiondepartment.org/node/148 TED Talk: A Basic Human Right http://www.democraticeducation.org/index.php/blog/article/abasichumanright/ “People need to have the power to solve their own problems” – Kosta Grammatis Kosta Grammatis believes if you provide a person with a mobile device and access to the internet their learning space can be anywhere. Support a person’s curiosity to question, reason and create within whatever space they are in and their learning can become anything. Learners of the 21st century need these things: a space, a device, a connection, a facilitator, a motive. Yet over 5 billion people on this planet don't have internet access. Loggie's Blog: http://loggiesblog.blogspot.kr/2012/10/teaching-questions.html Erika's blogs: http://erikajeanxo.blogspot.com/ AND http://passiondschool.blogspot.com/ https://twitter.com/erika_auger #sschat Social Studies Tweetchat http://sschat.ning.com/ Go to EdTechTalk to see the chat logs for this episode of TTT.

Download On this episode of TTT, we re-mix Karen Fasimpaur's Keynote for the K12 Online Conference strand: Visioning New Curriculum. Welcome to day one of the 2012 K-12 Online Conference! All presentations are listed and linked on our main conference schedule. Presentation Title: Visioning New Curriculum Presentation Description: This keynote session by Karen Fasimpaur for the “Visioning New Curriculum” strand talks about the unique opportunities presented by Common Core, digital tools, openness, and innovation. The time for one-size-fits-all, top-down curriculum is over. This session gives examples of curriculum that is personalized, real world, iterative, and collaborative. It is time for a new era in curriculum — one that is digital, open, innovative, and built by and for our community. This video includes reflection questions which can be explored collaboratively athttps://p2pu.org/en/groups/k12-online-2012/ The ideas in this video were developed collaboratively with a group of many people much smarter than me. Thanks to everyone who played along. This process was a testament to the power of collaboration and of creation as way to reflect and learn. iPod video http://blip.tv/file/get/K12online-VisioningNewCurriculum681.m4v mp3 audio http://blip.tv/file/get/K12online-VisioningNewCurriculum464.mp3     ———————————————————————– Link to presentation’s supporting documents https://p2pu.org/en/groups/k12-online-2012/content/visioning-new-curriculum-strand/ Additional InformationP2PU K12 Online group – https://p2pu.org/en/groups/k12-online-2012/ Maker Faire – http://makerfaire.com Junior FIRST LEGO League –http://www.juniorfirstlegoleague.org Supercomputing Challenge – http://www.challenge.nm.org National Writing Project – http://www.nwp.org Youth Voices – http://youthvoices.net NanoWrimo – http://www.nanowrimo.org P2PU – http://www.p2pu.org Common Core State Standards – http://www.corestandards.org SETDA “Out of Print: Reimagining the K-12 Textbook in a Digital Age” – http://setda.org/web/guest/outofprint OER for K-12 – http://content.k12opened.com PhET Simulations – http://phet.colorado.edu YouthVoices curriculum challenges and grid – http://youthvoices.net/play Go to Ed Tech Talk to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.