Teaching for the Future

News:
The End is NEAR from TechLearning.com: As an artist the medium is always part of the message, but what if your medium is a Pringle? David Jakes talks about all the new ways we are getting information. He talks about a bunch of interesting online and off-line ways of spreading a message. This could be an interesting article to work into a lesson about different kinds of literacy. It would be interesting to ask your students how the message changes when it is a YouTube video, on a potato chip, or etched into a plant.

Big Brother State by David Scharf and Stephen Taylor: I cannot remember where I originally found this video, but I think we need to share it. It deals with interesting ideas of surveillance. I'm not sure where I fall on this issue, because as a podcaster I live a lot of my life in public, on the web. I'd love to get your comments on this. Related: The Real Cost of Facebook
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New Media Super Heroes by Dave LaMorte: This is not really news that I'm working on my graduate thesis. My work is going to be arts based, which means my paper needs to have a body of artwork to go with it. I put up my first bit of artwork recently in the form of a low-tech web comic. You can follow my thesis work at my personal site at DaveLaMorte.com.

School Without Google? from TechLearning.com: This is an interesting look about how blocking web tools can put teachers and students at a real disadvantage. Wesley Fryer talks about how blocking things like Google is like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. The comments on this post are also pretty interesting. You should also check out Wesley's podcast on his homepage.

Recently access to YouTube was shut off at Lesley University. Which is another case of not realizing the learning potential of a lot of these new media sites. Related: Turkey Lifts YouTube Ban, Don't Choose Facebook Over Your Job

Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use: This is an interesting document that I learned about at Beyond Broadcast 2007. This is a great document that explains the rules of fair use as they stand. Though it is written with filmmakers in mind, this is a valuable resource for content creators who may want to use content from other artists.

Other Links:

• Bum Rush The Charts
  
• Apple iTunes staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers.
• Georgia is to introduce two literature classes on the Bible in public schools.
• Conservapedia is like Wikipedia, but without all of the Liberals.
• Sky Mall Liberation. (Not Safe For Work)
• Girls Suspended over 'Vagina Monologues'
  
• Who Knew People would be upset over White Power?
• The Real Cost of Facebook
• Turkey Lifts YouTube Ban
• Don't Choose Facebook Over Your Job

Thanks:
Thanks to HappyKatie for the image of the TV and to Dan Flannery for all the great music.

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Posted by Dave LaMorte at 3/12/2007 11:06:00 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

News:

Does Public Relations Equal Propaganda? from Ed Lee:

Ed blogs over at Blogging Me Blogging You, where he talks about social media and marketing. He points out an interesting YouTube video from a group called PR Watch. It's interesting and really well done and asks a lot of interesting questions.

Americans Devoting More Time to Media from VOA News: from the article:

"This year, the average American will spend 3,518 hours (nearly five months) watching TV, surfing the Internet, listening to the radio and reading. That's a prediction from The Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2007. This is the 126th edition of the Statistical Abstract, which is published annually by the U.S. Census Bureau."

• Americans Devoting more time consuming media
  
• More content
• More delivery systems.
• iPods, Podcasts, PVRs allow people to have more control.

Education As Portable As A Pop Song from The Unofficial Mac Blog: This post looks at how portable media is changing how we look at distance learning. As media players become cheaper, this will become more prevalent.

Follow Up:
Chris Penn from the financial aid podcast sent me this link. Thanks Chris!!!
http://www.iveyfiles.com/my_weblog/2007/02/moron_tries_to_.html

Upcoming:
I'm going to be going to the Beyond Broadcast Conference at MIT this weekend. I'm going to try to get some interesting audio and video that I will share with you on the podcast. I hope to see Steve Garfield and meet Henry Jenkins.

Other Links:

• Ads Made By You, In a Click from the NYTimes
• Iraqi-American Rapper Timz on YouTube
• Armed Forces Welcome Suicidal Teens? from Neatorama
• Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping
• Intellagirl's take on why Teachers Need to Understand Computers Or Risk Prison
• Bum Rush the Charts

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Part 2 of 2. I was one of the student panelists at Lesley University's Technology Institute. We discussed social networking and it's role in the lives of students. The beginning explanation is being done by Rebecca Petersen who is the head of the Center of Academic Technology at Lesley University.

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If you want to help out or participate with Teaching for the Future you can leave a comment on the homepage or link to us on your blog or podcast. If you want to get in touch, feel free to email at teachingforthefuture@gmail.com, make me your friend on MySpace, or send me an audio message through Odeo

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I was one of the student panelists at Lesley University's Technology Institute. We discussed social networking and it's role in the lives of students. The beginning explanation is being done by Rebecca Petersen who is the head of the Center of Academic Technology at Lesley University. This is first part of two podcasts of this event.

Don't forget to Digg me on Digg.com's new Podcast section! It is a great way to get the word out about the show.

If you want to help out or participate with Teaching for the Future you can leave a comment on the homepage or link to us on your blog or podcast. If you want to get in touch, feel free to email at teachingforthefuture@gmail.com, make me your friend on MySpace, or send me an audio message through Odeo

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News:
The Daily Show - Guns in School: I found this wonderful clip on YouTube and I wanted to share it with you. We talked about messures and legislation being developed to allow teachers to carry guns in schools during Episode 48. This clip deals with some of what we were talking about and brings up a new "innovation" that uses textbooks as sheilds. David Truss left an interesting comment on Episode 48 that I do not think the Daily Show chose not to focus on.

"An angry kid that brings a weapon to school has probably had issues with police or authoritative family members already, why should teachers try to take the same 'broken' approach with these kids?"

You can find David at his elgg blog by clicking the link here.


Visual Literacy Periodic Table via the Financial Aid Podcast: Chris Penn has a nack for creating and finding neat things on the web. In Episode 452 Chris put a link to the Visual Literacy Periodic Table. This is a neat website that has a large gathering of techniques of displaying and organizing information. This is a good tool for those of you who are trying to explain concepts to the visual and mathematical learners in your classroom. This could also be a good reference for students who need to make presentations or want to better organize their ideas. I'd like to know what you think of this site, leave me a comment or email me and let me know what you think. Or better yet if you use this in a lesson or with a project, let me know how it turned out.


State of the Union Smackdown from Pluggd: Pluggd has made the state of the union available on their site. This isn't so interesting, until you see how they have allowed you to search through both the state of the union and the response. Using a simple text search bar you can search for any topic in the speeches. This is a great way to look at both sides side by side and issue by issue. This could be a real educational tool that could allow you and your students to find portions and discuss them.

Listen to Your Kids Gets Going: Julien Smith's new project, Listen to your Kids is starting to get some recognition and is having a good response. As of this episode, there have already been two "kids" who have left messages. You can listen to my interview with Julien about this project here.

Children's Songs from Afghanistan: One of my professors at Lesley University, Louise Pascale, has created an album and song book of Afghan children's music.

"After decades of political upheaval in Afghanistan, this moving collection of
16 children's folk songs is being returned to a new generation of Afghan children to be sung and passed down for generations to come. Originally collected by Peace Corp volunteer, Louise Pascale, and published by Kabul Press in 1968, the songs have all but disappeared from the culture. They have now been recorded by well-known and respected Afghan musician, Vaheed Kaacemy, and a group of Afghan children. A new, colorful version of the songbook includes lyrics in Farsi, Pushto, Uzbeki and Hazara, musical notation and a 60 minute CD. With support from the National Geographic Society, Ayenda: Afghan Children Initiative, and many generous individuals, 3,000 copies are being distributed for free to children at 100 schools across Afghanistan. Additional printings are planned to return this cultural heritage to thousands more children in Afghanistan and in Afghan communities around the world."

Upcoming:
In the next few weeks look out for an interview with Brian Connelly from Alive In Baghdad. I will also put out the panel discussion I was in at the Lesley University Technology Institute in two parts.

Don't forget to Digg me on Digg.com's new Podcast section! It is a great way to get the word out about the show.

If you want to help out or participate with Teaching for the Future you can leave a comment on the homepage or link to us on your blog or podcast. If you want to get in touch, feel free to email at teachingforthefuture@gmail.com or send me an audio message through Odeo

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Today's episode was recorded with my new iTalk. It's an attachment that allows me to record with my video iPod. I'm still experimenting with it, but so far so good.


Now that I'm using my digital still camera to do the video and the iTalk for audio I feel like I have covered all of my podcasting needs. With that in mind I'm going to be donating my old video/audio recorder to Alive In Baghdad. If you have any digital equipment you would like to donate, let Brian know because Alive In Baghdad could use some new/semi-new equipment. Even if you decide not to donate to Brian, I recommend you to donate any of your unused equipment.




News:

Teens 'turn to social websites': from BBC News.com: "The study for the Pew Internet Project involved 935 teenagers and found 55% of American youths aged 12-17 had accounts at sites such as MySpace and Facebook." Kids today are connected in a way we have never dreamed of. The study also finds kids are beginning to be smarter about how they share their personal information and how they use the web.






Social Networking Evades Schools: via think:lab: This post on the Fast Company weblog is talking about how excluding social networking in schools is leaving kids with out guidance. Maybe it is a good idea to have a policy that addresses the issue of social networking in school. This is going to be an issue for years to come and we need to start dealing with it. Just as you would talk to your kids about sex, drugs, and alcohol; you need to talk to your kids about social networking. If you don't address this with your kids someone else will.





IM/Chatting Affecting Language Wired: I was reading the Mr-Know -It-All column in the latest issue of Wired and found an interesting look at how text messaging/IM chat effects teens. Clive Thompson who writes the column argued that out fears are over blown. Where most educators and parents think chat is eroding student language skills he explains that this is probably not the case. In studies cited in the article researchers found that students made less spelling mistakes while instant messaging then in their papers.



He argues that it's due to teens not wanting to look bad in front of their friends. In my mind is all comes down to PUBLISHING. Students are not worried about being shamed for their spelling errors by their teachers so they are just less likely to proofread. Thompson's suggestion is teaching students about code switching, so they know what kind of language is appropriate and when it's appropriate. You can find this article on page 50 of the January issue of Wired.





Ads in captchas from In Over Your Head: I did not know what a captchas was before Julien mentioned them, even though I've been using them for a while. According to the Wikipedia a captcha is "an initialism for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart", trademarked by Carnegie Mellon University, is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to determine whether or not the user is human." Usually these are a semi-random set of numbers and letters that are used to cut down on comment spam on blogs. Recently ads and messages such as "drink coke" have been popping up in these semi-random sets. This seems indicative to the fact that people are learning to block out ads.



Because we can tune out these ads, advertisers are trying hard to slide their messages past our defenses. This worries me because I have a feeling that students who have learned to block out information may begin to tune out messages in the classroom. To your average 16-year-old information from a teacher can seem analogous to a commercial they don't want to pay attention to. More likely is that students have been blocking out their teachers since the beginning of time, but I do feel a trend.





DIY Cut and Fold Paper iPhone from Sneak Move:

This isn't news but I love a good paper project. I wanted to make my own paper iPhone, but Sneak Move beat me to it. This was just a lot of fun to make and will make for some funny flickr images.




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Thanks to Dan Flannery for the great music.





If you want to help out or participate with Teaching for the Future you can leave a comment on the homepage or link to us on your blog or podcast. If you want to get in touch, feel free to email at teachingforthefuture@gmail.com or send me an audio message through Odeo





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Posted by Dave LaMorte at 1/17/2007 04:25:00 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Today's podcast was initially going to be episode 33 but life happened and I'm happy to finally share this with you. Kerrie Bellisario is a professor at Lesley University and is on of the organizers of the recent Cambridge Codex project. The Codex is a community art project that takes place between Harvard and Porter Square in Cambridge, MA. Participants are asked to use chalk and create a coded in public spaces. This project brings together many different ideas and deals with issues of public spaces and community interaction. Participants are able to communicate with each other and their environment with out harming local buildings or public spaces. If you are interested in contacting Kerrie or one of her students about the project please visit the website.

If you have a podcast I'd love to hear about it, so feel free to email at teachingforthefuture@gmail.com or send me an audio message through Odeo

Intro: Thanks to Brad Niessen from the Tech Teacher Podcast for the Intro.

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