Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments (SOLE), and learn more at tedprize.org.
Be sure to watch this video too.

Content + Pedagogy is messy. Outstanding presentation at SITE08 by Punya and Koehler on the need for and use of creativity applied to educational technology.

Dr Willie's Borneo Project: Learning in Action

After viewing this video, what ideas do you have?

Joe's Non-Netbook

According to this student, there are some problems with the text book. Watch and see what you think.

Real world ideas for the classroom

Please be sure and watch this video about a million young people who are working to save our planet form deforestation. Watch his presentation at ISTE2012 starting at 34:49. To find out more how you as teachers can be involved, visit DeforestAction website.

Educational wikis for your classroom

While researching the use of wikis for the classroom I ran across this online space for students of Westwood Schools to learn and collaborate. Managed by teacher and blogger Vicki Davis. Watch a video of how her class works.

Her project has "been in the news" since she started it back in 2005. The public can view the information but only students can participate. 

Go ahead and click around the site to see all the possibilities.

It's free for educational users. You have to request the upgrade for the free, no ad wiki for education. Watch the video on this page called Creating Educational Wikis. It tells how to upgrade for a free site.

Here is some information about using wikis in K-12 classrooms.

should schools be wired with video cameras?

I ran across a story about a father that wired his son to document what teachers did at school. This situation is so sad. This is a good video to watch so you can be aware of situations like this. Here is the Facebook Page.

The father was interviewed and has vowed to help schools make changes and get some teachers removed. Here's the interview 
And a video response from an older boy with autism who talks about this and asks do we need to have cameras in the classroom to monitor schools?
What do you think?