Monday, April 27, 2009
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Welcome
Welcome to the book study blog for Daniel Pink's A Whole New Mind. Thank you for joining our first ever community-wide professional learning circle, joining students, educators, business leaders, and parents in powerful conversations about learning with a “whole new mind.”
Who We Are
Shelley Bailey
I have been in education since 1989 as a business teacher, administrator and currently as Coordinator of Career and Technical Education in Elmira. I believe that the key to motivating all students to succeed at higher levels is to help them connect their learning to their lives including their interests, skills and future career plans. “A Whole New Mind” helps us to better understand people, especially students, and what will be needed for their achievement and ultimately, our ability to prosper as a nation. I am excited about the implications that this innovative book study project can have on our students, teachers and community!
Gina Beirne
I am a technology-obsessed Library Media Specialist who went to library school in the "dark ages" before the Internet existed. My love of technology encompasses every aspect of my life. My two most faithful companions are my iPhone and my Kindle. I am married, have two children, and am owned by the world's most beautiful yellow lab.
Heather Lutz
I am a school counselor at SHS. I love my job because it is magical to watch students grow into young adults during the brief four years they spend in high school. I enjoy reading, gardening, and cooking. The youngest of my three children has recently departed for college so I am finding more time for these hobbies and for spending time at the lake with my husband, Bill.
Kathy Pilling-Whitney
I am an art teacher at Southside High School. I teach ceramics, Drawing & Painting, and Studio in Art. I have been in a continual search and study for ideas and inspiration in teaching and learning. I also have a personal interest in right and left brain research.
Maggie Thurber
I am an assistant principal at Southside High School, working in the area of professional and student learning. I am devoted to promoting adolescent literacy and to supporting collaborative professional learning. In fact, this book study & blog would not have happened without the passion and impetus provided by great teacher leaders, and I am humbled and proud to be a part of the endeavor. I am excited about working together with students, parents, educators, and the business community to explore the needs of the 21st century learner. I am – the consensus is – quite right brained myself!
I have been in education since 1989 as a business teacher, administrator and currently as Coordinator of Career and Technical Education in Elmira. I believe that the key to motivating all students to succeed at higher levels is to help them connect their learning to their lives including their interests, skills and future career plans. “A Whole New Mind” helps us to better understand people, especially students, and what will be needed for their achievement and ultimately, our ability to prosper as a nation. I am excited about the implications that this innovative book study project can have on our students, teachers and community!
Gina Beirne
I am a technology-obsessed Library Media Specialist who went to library school in the "dark ages" before the Internet existed. My love of technology encompasses every aspect of my life. My two most faithful companions are my iPhone and my Kindle. I am married, have two children, and am owned by the world's most beautiful yellow lab.
Heather Lutz
I am a school counselor at SHS. I love my job because it is magical to watch students grow into young adults during the brief four years they spend in high school. I enjoy reading, gardening, and cooking. The youngest of my three children has recently departed for college so I am finding more time for these hobbies and for spending time at the lake with my husband, Bill.
Kathy Pilling-Whitney
I am an art teacher at Southside High School. I teach ceramics, Drawing & Painting, and Studio in Art. I have been in a continual search and study for ideas and inspiration in teaching and learning. I also have a personal interest in right and left brain research.
Maggie Thurber
I am an assistant principal at Southside High School, working in the area of professional and student learning. I am devoted to promoting adolescent literacy and to supporting collaborative professional learning. In fact, this book study & blog would not have happened without the passion and impetus provided by great teacher leaders, and I am humbled and proud to be a part of the endeavor. I am excited about working together with students, parents, educators, and the business community to explore the needs of the 21st century learner. I am – the consensus is – quite right brained myself!
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Wow. My favorite quote from this is, "We live in exponential times," because it really is a profound and accurate way of stating technology in the world. When I think of exponants, I always think of a graph. While it begins going up very slowly, there is a point at which it becomes a line going nearly vertical (if you follow it long enough). As this applies to technology, it would mean that advancements would be coming faster than we could possibly measure. Except, maybe, by using technology.
ReplyDeleteI shared this with my husband a retired teacher and he immediately shared it with the grand kids mother (also a teacher). I have seen this video before and found it interesting the second time around. The video reinforces that there is a tremendous amount of information out there and not we have it literally at our finger tips, due to the technology. If we are to prepare children for this, we need to ask parents what are you doing to prepare you child for this future. If they asked me what to do I would say read to your child and instill in them a love of reading.
ReplyDeleteI shared this with fellow educators who have a passion for using technology to motivate students to learn. I also shared the video with friends who hate technology. The responses were facinating.
ReplyDeleteI watched the video compare the technology shift from 10 years ago to now on my front porch recliner with a wireless laptop (definately not possible 10 years ago. As I watched I was feeling pretty good about the ways we integrate technology into education at BMS; but also feeling like we 'drill and kill" to prepare them for the assessments and this leaves little time for truly creative tech-rich projects and learning.
The video also challenges us to rethink copyright. Are kids who take video, images and sound from the internet and use it to produce a unique project that they post online violating copyright? The law on this is currently under review and there are good arguments on both sides. The video states that 1/2 of our students have created web content, but is it content that helped them to learn, or helps others or learn or is it just silly webpages that list their favorite things? I love technology and I love using it with students, but we need to use it in a meaningful way, and we really need to help kids start to teach themselves and to work on problem solving when the tech doesn't do exactly what they need. Many of my kids shut down too easily with no problem solving or say "the computer won't let me", so just having lots of access does mean an increase in thinking or learning!
I have seen this a few times: once from my nephew and then last night at a Horseheads School District Core Team meeting, where we are planning for the next 10 years. We actually addressed how we as a team can help kids move into the 21st century in light of the rapidly developing technology in the world. We have 6 different task forces who are and will be looking at how to prepare our students.
ReplyDeleteI watched this video a couple of years ago and came away feeling frightened about my role as a teacher who must prepare the students of today for the 21st century. Clearly our educational systems are beginning to see that teaching the "same ole, same ole, in the same ole way" is not going to work, and yet we have so far to go to change the way we teach in order to truly prepare our students. I so agree with Jill E's comments above. State tests have become such a deep part of all that we do. In addition, we often place students in front of computers and say we are using technology, yet we need to truly teach students how to use technolgy in the most effective ways in order to produce true learning.
ReplyDeleteI have also seen this video before as part of a faculty meeting. We are not doing enough to prepare students for the future. How can we instill a love for learning or curiosity about things? They definitely need to learn about technology and how it can be used for learning and in the workplace; not just for games or to google something. We need to help them overcome their laziness about life but parents need to do their part to help as well.
ReplyDeleteWe used this video two years ago as a touchstone for our professional learning in literacy and technological literacy. Teachers really responded to its powerful message.
ReplyDeleteIt really gives you something to think about! Did You Know by Karl Fisch was emailed to me a few months ago. I sent Did You Know 2.0 to staff members at Hendy. I'm not sure how many teachers actually viewed it because we are bombarded with emails daily.
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