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scott’s thoughts
collecting online sundries since 2007
27 Jun
2010
Me at #ISTE10 Leadership Bootcamp 2010 #lbc10
via ustream.tv
I wish I had a better quality version... There is no audio for the first 10 minutes (much of which is just people wandering in, but some of the talk is lost), but at least it's archived!
And, yes, I said "knowledge" when I meant "information" a few minutes in. It's a seriously new paradigm for me to talk in front of a room of people who are staring into their laptops and iPads...
All in all, I had fun, and I felt very humbled to present in front of such an esteemed group of professionals.
12 Jun
2010
Colorado alters teacher tenure rules
While other states have tried to modify tenure, Colorado's law was the boldest education reform in recent memory, according to Kate Walsh, the president of the Washington-based National Council on Teacher Quality, which promotes changing the way teachers are recruited and retained, including holding tenured teachers accountable with annual reviews.
via hosted.ap.org
12 Jun
2010
Steve Jobs on schools
And you start to think, What would I do if I set a curriculum for a school?
God, how exciting that could be! But you can't do it today. You'd be crazy to work in a school today. You don't get to do what you want. You don't get to pick your books, your curriculum. You get to teach one narrow specialization. Who would ever want to do that?
via wired.com
The whole 1996 interview is a very interesting read.
9 Jun
2010
Hot for Teachers - Elementary PTA video starring Brian Austin Green & Megan Fox
It goes on about twice as long as necessary to make the point, but the fact that it was made by an elementary PTA and it's already received more than a million views speaks to the power of social media.
Scott Elias's Posterous
This is a place for everything that doesn't fit somewhere else in my digital life. It started out in 2007 on Tumblr, but I recently ported it over to Posterous.
I use it to post stuff that's too short to blog and too long to Tweet, as well as found items that I want to share somewhere beyond Delicious, and anything else that suits me.
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