Edina Digital Age Learning

Recently my wife and I were having a discussion about the lack of "Giants," in today's world. We had just watched this clip from The Daily Show , where Robert Reich was talking to Jon Stewart about having worked for Robert Kennedy, and lamenting that there are no "giants," like Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr. to lead us in our world today.  The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes , The Daily Show on Facebook Then the next day, my wife heard activist, Bill McKibbon interviewed on " The Take-Away ," about his new book . He too was talking about the lack of a giant to lead on a topic like climate change . The excerpt that really stood out comes when he talks about bee colonies, and their lack of a specific leader (2:15).  They turn out to be remarkable creatures. We think of the queen bee as being really important, but in fact, she's really good at laying eggs. It's the rest of the hive t...

Yesterday, Sara Swenson , Edina High School Librarian (She prefers that term!) shared the following video with me via e-mail that she found on an NCTE Web s ite . I thought that the video crystallized for me the potential for educational technology integration, 21st Century learning and learning beyond the classroom walls. It is something we are working on with our Community of Practice . That isn't to say that there won't be road blocks to navigate, or crevasses to traverse! We know they exist now! I was intrigued to see the teacher's role defined in such creative ways!! When people ask you what you do for a living, do you respond as "teacher", "educator", "instructor", facilitator", or are you a "Connected Learning Incubator" or are you still "Keeper of All Knowledge Which Is Good?" Hmmm ... Then this morning, I checked my Twitter feed and Will Richardson had posted about a conference on the Future of Education ...