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The Learning is Change Podcast

Ben Wilkoff

My name is Ben Wilkoff, and I Teach. And Learn. A Lot.

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Digital Ex-Patriots and The Formula for Transparency

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2007/12/18

May 14, 2007 09:19PM Well, I may be going out on a limb with this one, but I have described in the podcast a level of discomfort with technology that goes beyond the simple immigrant/native debate. The fear and panic that is associated with technology in the classroom comes …

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What Happens Next Year?

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2007/12/18

May 12, 2007 05:41AM I am very worried about what is going to happen to my students when they leave me at the end of this school year. Not because I think that they won’t be able to handle to rigors of high school life, but rather because I …

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The Would-Be School 2.0 Advocates

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2007/12/18

May 06, 2007 05:14AM The podcast episode is based upon the idea that teachers will listen to someone who has a lot of experience teaching without technology and then stumbled upon the effectiveness and authenticity of technology and became an advocate for change. They will not listen to someone …

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Visions of Change

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2007/12/18

April 24, 2007 06:10AM Well, I guess it was bound to happen sometime, but I really didn’t expect it to happen this soon. We have received funding for our School 2.0 within a school idea, The Academy of Discovery. So, what do we do now? How do we continue …

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Creating the School 2.0 Movement

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2007/12/18

April 19, 2007 04:28AM I have become dissatisfied with talking about School 2.0 only among educators. It seems to be this feedback loop that creates a lot of noise, but in the end, really doesn’t create any massive change. So, I am proposing a change in tactics. We need …

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Beyond Rubrics

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2007/12/18

April 10, 2007 04:33AM This podcast was created because of a discussion I had with my students about the merits of rubrics in a School 2.0 classroom. The data was mixed. Some students felt very comfortable with rubrics because it let them know how to get an A. Others …

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The Embedded Classroom

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2007/12/18

April 04, 2007 09:09PM The two wiki project that my students have started to work on have taught me that an open framework that allows for embedded materials is preferable to any all-in-one solution that tries to do too much at once. I also would like to apply this …

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Remixing The Classroom

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2007/12/18

March 31, 2007 09:36AM One of my students came up with an amazing metaphor for how intellectual property should work in the classroom and in greater society. She described the idea that remixing should be like cake making. You buy all of the ingredients and then can prepare any …

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The Great Remix Debate

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2007/12/18

March 28, 2007 04:56AM I give all of the credit for this podcast to my amazing students. They were the ones that kept a debate on intellectual property, remixing, and mash-ups going for nearly thirty minutes. They were the ones that came up with the amazing examples to support …

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A New Image for New Students

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2007/12/18

March 20, 2007 05:08AM My students are different. Not from yours, but from the ones that came before them. They are desperate to connect everything together: disciplines, ideas, home and school. They need a way of bridging the gaps that many adults artificially create. We must help them to …

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Researching School 2.0

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2007/12/18

March 13, 2007 08:58PM In creating a wiki for my vision of School 2.0 within a school, I have found that there is quite a bit of research out there supporting 1:1 computing, constructivist teaching practice, and engaging technology usage in the classroom. What is even more amazing is …

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What does support look like in School 2.0?

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2007/12/18

March 03, 2007 07:06AM Support is such an essential part of education, but many of us who are looking ahead to a technologically rich educational experience sometimes forget this. Because we are savvy, we expect others (including our students) to be savvy. I created this podcast in order to …

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What Myspace can teach us about School 2.0

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2007/12/18

February 21, 2007 07:18PM This podcast was brought about because of the classroom discussion that my eighth graders had about what a terrible affect Myspace can have on their lives. I wanted to start brainstorming a school-sponsored space that we could substitute for Myspace that would be an extension …

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The Internet as Utopia

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2007/12/18

February 18, 2007 08:51AM This was a discussion I had with my 8th graders about how the Internet could be used as a vehicle for creating a utopia in their everyday lives. I was truly surprised and intrigued by some of their responses. Many of the students believe that …

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Parents as School 2.0 Stakeholders

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2007/12/18

February 13, 2007 08:58PM Convincing parents that the skills of School 2.0 are important is going to be one of the biggest jobs facing all teaching in the very near future. I have outlined in this podcast three possible ways of accomplishing this goal: 1. Student exemplars of continual …

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How do we assess School 2.0?

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2007/12/18

February 11, 2007 08:36PM I’ve been trying to figure out for a while just how assessment is going to look in School 2.0. I have developed (or at least half-baked) 3 types of assessments that I would consider in this new type of environment: 1. Conversation 2. Reflection 3. …

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The New Graduation Requirements

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2007/12/18

February 01, 2007 07:55PM I have been thinking a lot about how we have the same graduation requirements that we have always had. We may have upped the number of Math and English classes, but each student has to do the same things in high school, jump through the …

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Teacher-Proof Teaching

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2007/12/18

January 31, 2007 04:04AM I created this podcast because I was frustrated with the way our vision of education seems to conflict with the reality of education. I know that the administration at my school wants only what is best for kids. I do not have any doubts in …

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The Perfect Learning Environment

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2007/12/18

January 31, 2007 03:57AM This podcast is of a discussion that I had with my 7th and 8th grade students about what they think the perfect learning environment would be like. I asked them a few guiding questions, but their ideas were purely their own. I think there is …

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The Discovery School within a School

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2007/12/18

January 29, 2007 04:18AM A colleague of mine and I were brainstorming all of the technology implementation possibilities for the next school, when he suggested that what we were talking about was not merely two classes (Social Studies and Language Arts) collaborating, but that we were shifting the paradigm …

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