Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged school2.0
The All-New School
Nov 23rd
SOON, EVERYTHING WILL START TO CLICK. There’s a reason the new school clicks with so many people. It’s supposed to. Throughout the school, you’ll notice an uncanny familiarity to your life beyond the walls.
Consider, if you will, the new classroom that comes standard. It’s engineered with more than students in mind. The push-button world has been taken into account. The multi-tasking tendencies of modern society have been duly noted. The result is a classroom that doubles as a remote control for the rest of the education system. And that means instant access to everything from 3D maps to over 700 More >
Pedagogy defines School 2.0 (revisited)
Jul 13th
I was reading Will’s post today It’s Not Just the “Read/Write” Web and then thanks to twitter John Pederson’s post on Networks (I think that’s what it’s on anyway).
As I read I started thinking about a post I did back in January on defining School 2.0.
Not sure if it’s OK to quote yourself but back then I wrote:
School 2.0 although driven to change by the advancement of technology is not about technology, it’s about the advancement of society, of our culture as a world. Technology played a large part, but it is society that has changed. Everything from out-sourcing work to Asia, to More >
We’re getting there!
Mar 1st
Tonight I’m sitting here shaking my head at all the amazing things that teachers are doing this year and how we are changing the way we use technology. Teachers continue to find great ways to incorperate these new tools. Here is a look at some of the great things happening as my school.
First let’s start with my 7th Graders who today finished their Digital Stories. The assignment: Create a 1 minute message that informs or teaches people how to be safe on the Internet. We have a school youtube account (that’s right most schools are blocking Youtube and we have a More >
Power to the students
Feb 28th
If you really want to see students squirm in their seats…give them choices.
Yesterday I was approached by two teachers who wanted help coming up with ways to incorporate technology into some upcoming lessons. Both of them wanted to “do something different”. Which is a good sign, and shows that our Tech Fest has sparked some interest.
After listening to both teachers explain their projects and what they were looking for I simply said:
“Let the students choose!”
To often I think we try to put things neatly into containers. A lesson (as we were taught in educator school) must have a clearly defined More >
Changing Reading Habits
Feb 10th
David Jakes took the recent talk around School 2.0 and did a nice mash-up on the techlearning blog.
So here is my attempt at characterizing School 2.0, driven by ideas from David, Will, Clarence and Jeff:
Unlearning. Relearning. The desire and climate to do both, by all members of the school community in a constant and never-ending self-adjustment dance. Fluid. Moving in a purposeful and positive direction, and with a velocity-never standing still, always in perpetual beta, adapting, with information, conversation, ideas, creativity and contagious energy being delivered via digital tools and networks, all driving the learning experience forward to prepare kids More >
6 months from playground to Media Center
Jan 10th
Our new media center is almost complete. 6 Months ago this area was part of the play ground. Next month the building will officially be open for business. When designing the new media center we used the word seamless to define what we wanted information to be for students. Whether paper, digital, audio, or video…information needed to be accessible in this space…I think we did a pretty good job.
Here it is the whole first floor is the media/information center the second floor is art and music classrooms. The three out coves are two teaching areas and a storytelling area for teachers More >
Pedagogy defines School 2.0
Jan 10th
Earlier this week I read the first paragraph of Chris Lehmann’s post: Some Thoughts About School 2.0 –Part 1.
I knew after the first paragraph that this was one of those posts that I wanted to make sure I was in the right place and right time to read…I’m glad I did.
It’s about the pedagogy.
Four simple words that is the difference between School 2.0 and School 1.5.
School 2.0 although driven to change by the advancement of technology is not about technology, it’s about the advancement of society, of our culture as a world. Technology played a large part, but it is More >
