21st Century Learning

Mind Pushers

I am preparing for a couple workshops on homelessness I will be giving next week for the NC DOE and came across these two videos. Both caused me to stop and think... reflection is a good thing. Let's see if they cause you to reflect as well.

The one about what we model to children was particularly powerful. As teachers we are also sending messages to our students everyday through our actions. Children see...Children do. What are you modeling to your students? What about your instruction communicates the values and dispositions you want them emulating as they become lifelong learners?

David Weinberger: NPR, User-Generated Content and Trust

Public relations professionals and journalists often work together, and sometimes they even get along.
With citizen journalism on the rise yet another layer of the onion is being pulled back as we think through how networks and the resulting emerging connections will shape from whom and how we get  information.

Andy Carvin features several short videos on his site from a meeting with NPR representatives and some of the top minds in social networking. The discussion explores how trust can be bridged between social networking sites and traditional media. Andy's reporting of the events that took place is brilliant. (no surprise)

http://www.andycarvin.com/
Jay Rosen, David Weinberger, Jeff Jarvis, David Folkenflik, Zadi Diaz and Michel Martin discuss the shift of power from media outlets to the public, and the reasons for objectivity in journalism, among other topics. -andy