Paul Allison, Susan Ettenheim, and Thomas Locke are mainly responsible for this blog and podcast. Since January 2006, the three of us have been the core "gang" that meets via Skype every Wednesday evening at 9:00 EST. These conversations are archived as a podcast on this blog. Together we are searching for the most effective practices in technology, studying research, and improving our knowledge of new media by using it oursleves. We have two purposes: developing teacher knowledge and leadership in our own schools and districts and putting this knowledge and leadership to work to improve student achievement through the use of technology.
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66:23 minutes (45.58 MB)On this episode of TTT we invite you to go to IncitED to learn more about these projects and support them if you can:Imagining Learning - Creating a National Collective Voice through ListeningOpen Road Learning Community for Teens: Learning Without School (It's Natural)Youth Voices Summer Program: Connected Learning with the NYC Writing ProjectLook for the Spokes campaign on Kickstarter.Whether or not you plan to or can not make a contribution to one of these campaigns, please join us for a conversation about crowdfunding on this episode of TTT.We are joined by the following on this episode of TTT:Jaime R. Wood and Peter Lindberg from IncitEDIncitED is the crowdfunding community for education where ed supporters can fund, share, and replicate important education initiatives worldwide. http://incited.orgDavid Loitz and Charles Kouns from Imagining LearningImagining Learning is working to create a national collective voice on the wisdom of young people on how they would reinvent education. http://bit.ly/15IE8P6http://www.facebook.com/imagininglearninghttp://www.twitter.com/imagininglhttp://www.imagininglearning.us Charlie's Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDQd04BfkpIWhat is a Listening session? video http://youtu.be/GhTZ58I495wAlan Burnce from Open RoadProviding individualized, non-coercive education that empowers teens to direct their own learning and fulfill their potential.openroadteens.org http://www.incited.org/projects/9Turner Bohlen and Claire O'Connell from Spokes talk about their plan to ride bikes across America to work for passion-based education for high school students and to find a mentor for every high school student in America!We're people who love what we do. And we all love teaching!http://www.spokesamerica.orgKaren Fasimpaur and Paul Oh to help us talk about a Youth Voices Summer Program that will be p
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55:46 minutes (38.29 MB)On this episode of TTT we have a conversation about democratic education and IDEC 2013, the 21st annual International Democratic Education Conference, which will be held in Boulder, Colorado this August 4-8.Participants in this episode of TTT are: What is IDEC?IDEC 2013 will be a unique international gathering of changemakers—practitioners, organizers, academics, youth, and educators—built around how we can transform our communities, schools, and learning to ensure that all young people can engage meaningfully in their education and gain the tools to build a just, sustainable, and democratic world. The experience will include a rich blend of pre-scheduled events and the fluidity needed to host conversations, workshops and strategy sessions using a hybrid of Open Space Technology. Be prepared for a conference experience unlike any other – we’ll be pushing the boundaries of what we mean by learning, sharing, connecting and creating.http://www.idec2013.org/about/democraticeducation/http://www.idec2013.org/registration/What makes IDEC 2013 remarkable?IDEC 2013 is a place where the world learns together about learning. IDEC, now in its 21st year, is hosted by teams of educators from different countries and continents each year. This is the first time in ten years that it has been held in the United States. From Korea to Israel and Brazil to India, IDEC offers participants the space, prompts, and process to learn about the future and history of learning.What is democratic education?In communities around the world, a story is unfolding of young people, educators, networks, and communities generating solutions to the challenges of today’s complex world. That unfolding story is the story of democratic education.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 set of ideas, resources, and visions so that a powerful story can be told that reclaims education for people and communities. There are thousands of people and organizations around the globe engaged in democratic education. Many have similar values but different definitions. IDEC 2013 is for all of them.Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.read more
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62:01 minutes (42.59 MB)On this episode of TTT Monika Hardy and Paul Allison talk with Valerie Burton and Chad Sansing. We are also be joined by Jo Paraiso, whose students in Oakland, CA have been all over Youth Voices recently: http://youthvoices.net/FremontWhat have you been noticing? What dreams are you working to make come true? What connections are you making with people and ideas? What are you doing that's awesome?Click Read more to see the chat that was happening during this live webcast.read more
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63:48 minutes (43.81 MB)Another story of +Connected Learning on this episode of TTT.We are joined by Ed Martinez, +Fred Mindlin, and Dan Spelce to discuss "Forage IV," a pilot program supported in part by NWP's collaboration with the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Literacy Initiative.Integrating art with environmental education, we support teachers in linking their existing curriculum to a student-led interest-driven project, collaborating with practicing artists.The Project web site is http://forage.storyreach.com/We are also joined by Jennifer Woollven, Joel Malley, Scott Shelhart and Kelsey Shelhart.<img alt="monika hardy's profile photo" class="Rf Gl" height="48px" oid="100105955147870107021" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-jMyAkUB6niA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAGbE/4Xy88rcS7EU/s48-c-k-no/photo.jpg" style="border: 0px;
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70:29 minutes (48.4 MB)On this episode of TTT we learn more about connected learning, city as school, using media in justice-based education and more!Educators from the Detroit Future Schools (DFS) program http://schools.detroitfuture.org share their experiences of attempting to re-invent the practice and purpose of education. They discuss the transformative processes that they use in classrooms along with student-generated media projects. Furthermore, theyshare how the DFS network is growing and refining its vision. Enjoy this conversation with +Ammerah Saidi and +ms filipiak from Detroit Future Schools and +Christina Cantrill From the National Writing Project (NWP) in Philadelphia and leave with replicable teaching practices, ideas for school-community interactions, and links to further resources, like this post by Danielle Filipiak on the NWP's Digital Is: "My Homeland:" A Connected Learning Media exchange project between South Korean and Detroit HS Students http://digitalis.nwp.org/resource/3842In addition we connected with +Fred Haas and +Chris Tsang from the Boston Writing Project, just after the bombing at the Marathon. <img alt="Christina Cantrill's profile photo" class="Rf Gl" height="48px" oid="114902889621753167135" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-x2N56r_CpVc/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAPk/
