Themes+and+Related+Resources

=**Introduction to Open Pedagogy – The changing nature of teaching and learning.**=

Relevant Readings:

 * Marc Prensky, “Engage Me or Enrage Me – What Today’s Learners Demand” (2005) @http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0553.pdf
 * John Seely Brown and Richard Adler “Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0″: @http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume43/MindsonFireOpenEducationtheLon/162420
 * 2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning – @http://futureofed.org/
 * Anya Kamenetz, “The Future of Less: How Web-Savvy Edupunks Are Transforming American Higher Education” @http://futureofless.blogspot.com/2009/08/how-web-savvy-edupunks-are-transforming.html
 * Tony Wagner, "Rigor Redefined" - Doesn't actually mention technology, but should get you thinking about how technology can be used in truly meaningful ways. http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/oct08/vol66/num02/Rigor_Redefined.aspx
 * KnowledgeWorks Foundation, "The Future of Learning Agents and Disruptive Innovation," companion to 2020 Forecast with relevance to Week 2 discussion questions, changes in educational ecosystems and economies, and emergence of learning agents

Relevant Video:

 * “A vision of Students today” @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o


 * Take a look here at this website :) I am an Entrepreneur teacher looking for fun creative ways to get a product, service or company name out there and this is really creative webdesigning or at least one of the more creative. I will also post on the regular blog but here for video storage. http://producten.hema.nl/

=**Questioning Authority**=
 * "Transformed by Education: High Tech High Overview" []
 * "Did You Know 3.0" []
 * The Generation Gap: Digital Natives/ Digital Immigrants. []

CORE MATHEMATICS vs the standard sequence. []

Relevant Readings:

 * Jonathan Zittrain, “Chapter 6: The Lessons of Wikipedia” in The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It: http://futureoftheinternet.org/ available here as html ( @http://yupnet.org/zittrain/archives/16) or via download here (@http://futureoftheinternet.org/download)
 * Daniel Terdiman, “Study: Wikipedia as accurate as Britannica” @http://news.cnet.com/Study-Wikipedia-as-accurate-as-Britannica/2100-1038_3-5997332.html
 * Chris Wilson, “The Wisdom of the Chaperones” @http://www.slate.com/id/2184487
 * Tamar Lewin, “In a digital future, textbooks are history”: []
 * Jonathan Zittrain, “The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it”: @http://futureoftheinternet.org/ For those of you interested in a more technical view at authority, read Chapter 4: The Generative Pattern.
 * David Weinberger, “Chapter 7: Social Knowing” in Everything is Miscellaneous: http://www.everythingismiscellaneous.com/ (physical copy only)

Relevant Video:

 * Donald Ingber "Behave: Dance" [] For a cool explanation of organic rule creation in biology and art (also see other videos under the theme of "Flocking")

**From the Blogosphere:**

 * Anna Clark, "The Need for Literary Gatekeepers?" http://isak.typepad.com/isak/2008/05/the-need-for-literary-gatekeepers.html

=**The influence of Social Media in Teaching and Learning**=

Relevant Readings:

 * Paul Anderson: “What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education” @http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/techwatch/tsw0701b.pdf
 * How Students, Professors, and Colleges Are, and Should Be, Using Social Media @http://chronicle.com/blogPost/How-Students-Professors-a/7787/
 * Digital Natives: @http://www.digitalnative.org/ more specifically the Digital Education page: @http://www.digitalnative.org/wiki/Portal:Digital_Education
 * Two page summary of the UC Berkeley Digital Youth Project study called Living and Learning with New Media:[| http://www.macfound.org/atf/cf/%7BB0386CE3-8B29-4162-8098-E466FB856794%7D/DML_ETHNOG_2PGR.PDF]
 * My 30 Day Twitter Challenge - Ryan Bretag [|http://www.ryanbretag.com/blog/?p=741]
 * Digital Youth Research Project-Includes several subtopics on digital natives and videos []
 * Marc Prensky coined the term digital native. He compares digital natives to digital immigrants. Also has most of Prensky's pieces on education -[]
 * Can kids learn math from smartphones? []#
 * http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/clearinghouse/AdvisingIssues/Digital-Natives.htm **Digital Native or Digital Immigrant, Which Language Do You Speak? ~** ** Brad Cunningham ** Kansas State University  **Another article on the difference between us geeks and those that are geek free. Enjoy!**
 * Andrew Watt's Blog -[| http://andrewbwatt.wordpress.com/]- A teacher who uses and reflects on technology in his classroom, a lot.


 * “Did you know 2.0” []
 * “Did you know revised version” []
 * “socialnomics”: []
 * “A vision of k-12 students today”: []
 * "24 Hours in the Life of a Digital Native": []
 * Common Craft has great videos that explain Social Media, Twitter , and wikis "In Plain English" (among many many others)

=**Law, Policy, Culture: Creative Commons and beyond**=

Relevant Readings:

 * Lawrence Lessig: “Introduction” in Free Culture: @http://www.free-culture.cc/freecontent/
 * James Boyle, “Introduction” in The Public Domain: @http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download
 * James Boyle, “Chapter 8: The Creative Commons” in The Public Domain: @http://www.thepublicdomain.org/download

=The Value of Sharing=

Relevant Readings:

 * Good Magazine Blog Series by Eric Steuer: []

Relevant Video:
A trailer to a documentary about making it as an artist today. []

=**Survey of Open Projects**=

Open Educational Resources
Interesting twist on OER: []

**Other Open Source Topics**

 * Open Source Organizations - Integration of open source values into organizational management - []

=Teacher's Lounge Resources (Humor)=

**Relevant Readings:**
Something fun! To muppet the fans, enjoy![| http://mashable.com/2009/11/24/muppets-bohemian-rhapsody/]
 * Alfie Kohn, "When “21st-Century Schooling” Just Isn’t Good Enough: A Modest Proposal" http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/22century.htm
 * Video:**
 * Funny video about Twitter (be sure to watch both parts!)