Rosenstock. I recently attended the Breakthrough Learning conference and he
was a featured speaker. My socks were also knocked off by Reed Hastings, th=
e
CEO of Netflix. He's been heavily involved in California schools,
specifically charters, and I believe is on the board of KIPP.
Here are a couple of videos from the event feature these two men. They are
fairly long, so you may want to fast forward. Reed is featured at the end o=
f
the first video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1GKl_uj_LlU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DpPply3vZVwM
Lucy Gray
Education Technology Specialist
Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education
University of Chicago
http://cemse.uchicago.edu
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On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Laurie Bartels <
laurie_bartels@ryecountryday.org> wrote:
> Been meaning to reply to this imagination challenge for awhile!
>
> The first question is easy to address. I would include:
> =95 students (I have a few in mind but for privacy's sake will not
> include their names)
> =95 the MS learning specialist at my school (ditto on the name)
> =95 [ http://www.drhallowell.com/ ]Edward Hallowell
> =95 Arnold Wasserman of [ http://www.ideafactory.com/home/home.asp=
]The
> Idea Factory)
> =95 Randy Fielding or Prakash Nair from [
> http://www.designshare.com/index.php/home ]DesignShare
> =95 Larry Rosenstock, founding principal of [
> http://www.hightechhigh.org/about/ ]High Tech High
> =95 a number of the folks who participate on this listserv and the=
[
> http://isenet.ning.com/ ]isenet.ning
> =95 [ http://www.sirkenrobinson.com/ ]Ken Robinson
> =95 others whose names will likely come to my mind days or weeks f=
rom
> now!
>
> And in case you are wondering if I realize that a number of the above
> people are known for their accomplishments in areas outside of Fred's
> specific query, my reply is "yes". Also, Fred did say "imagine that you
> had a really big budget."
>
> As to the second question, I haven't compiled that list yet, though I
> would add to the question: What would you recommend the participants read
> and/or watch AND/OR VISIT in preparation for participating in the redesig=
n
> effort?
>
> Cheers,
> Laurie
>
>
>
> A forum for independent school educators <ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> writes=
:
> >Imagine you were asked to lead a serious group brainstorming effort to
> >improve education by redesigning our schools to take better advantage of
> >computers, digital devices, Web 2.0 technologies, and social media.
> >Say, for arguments sake, that the effort was something equivalent to 189=
3
> >Committee of Ten on Secondary School Studies which developed many of the
> >practices which still characterize our schools.
> >(See http://bit.ly/6NbBoG for the Committee of Ten's report.)
> >Now also imagine that you had a really big budget.
> >Who would you invite to come help your group do the best possible job wi=
th
> >the redesign effort?
> >What would you recommend the participants read and/or watch in preparati=
on
> >for participating in the redesign effort?
> >Thanks,
> >Fred
> >--
> >Fred Bartels
> >Dir. of Info. Tech.
> >Rye Country Day School
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