Well, it was with very little fanfare—perhaps the sound of a distant drumroll and a slight racing of my own heart—that voicEd.ca went live this afternoon. When I tell you that voicEd.ca is the of the beginning of the idea that I wrote about last weekend, I really mean it’s the beginning! I have purchased the domain, [...]
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Are 21st Century Learning and Technology Synonomous?
I’m not sure who discovered water, but I’m pretty sure that it wasn’t a fish. (often attributed to Marshall McLuhan) I’m not anti-technology. In fact, a few members of the recently-formed C21 Canada Consortium know that I’ve spent a good deal of my professional career exploring and encouraging others to explore the potential that [...]
Shifting Minds
On February 15th, a group of thought leaders from education and business gathered just outside Toronto to establish a new direction for Canadian education in the 21st century. Members of the newly-minted C21 Consortium gathered around their freshly-printed (can you sense the poetry being created here as I write?) working document, Shifting Minds, which establishes a starting point to [...]
Building the Gathering Place: A Construction Report
I am so excited about the amount of buzz that you have created around the idea of developing a “gathering place” for thinking about the Canadian education scene. As you know, it’s one thing to present an idea, but it’s quite another to have that idea embraced, poked at, built on, challenged and, yes, even [...]
Designing A Place for Parents in Our Schools
I returned from last night’s School Council meeting at my son’s school bouyed by a sense of possibility. This is the first year that I’ve been a member of an S.C. as a parent and, although I promised my wife that I would spend my first year of service simply observing the procedures and protocols—an [...]
Do Elephants Do Homework?
Some of the respondents to my recent Elephants in the Room entry have agreed to write a guest post dealing with an issue in education that we are reluctant to talk about. Today, Marty Stevens continues the parade with a perspective on something the mind of that is on the minds of both parents and [...]
