Creating+a+Culture+of+Learning

Interesting session, hosted by Jim Peterson (@weathertation), a high school physics teacher/technology director from Holland.

Their "culture" was built with the underlying philosophy that "Praxis (what we do in the classroom) leads to theory." Their culture was built by trying things in classrooms and then growing the theory. Critical was the sharing/celebrating things that were happening in classrooms.

He pointed out that the "21st century skills" aren't new, but the landscape we operate in, because of technology is.

__//He mentioned some conditions, including://__ "Everyone has to to know what they don't know." In our schools today, everyone has the chance to lead. There is a much bigger marketplace for information and learning today.

Everyone must improve. What if a class published a book. Collection of essays, photographs, poems, etc. People can buy it. While the audience may be small, it is bigger than an traditional creative writing class.

Feedback is ubiquitous in our current landscape.

Giving knowledge away is an act of humanity.

__//To create culture, he suggested://__ Pick a condition, design a system to make it happen. If you believe in making a condition a reality, then make the condition a reality.

__//Two things he mentioned that I thought was interesting://__ Once kids at his school were using technology and staff was open to new ideas, kids started finding solutions for other problems that did not involve technology.

Walls at his school are painted green for green screening and moving making.

__//Websites he mentioned://__ @weathertation - collaborate with him on twitter.

Partnership for 21st century skills - p21.org

Slideshare - look that up.

Ommwriter - a web based writing software

M.socrative.com - can set up a classroom, ask a question, get feedback

Look up Ken Kay - wrote a 7 part blog on edutopia worth reading.