What Students are Facing Today

The following is a video created in 2007 in a KSU anthropology class. Watch it and then add to the conversation about it.



What resonated with you?
What fears do you have about your educational future?
What hopes do you have?

How have things changed since this video was made?

By George, I Think They've Got IT!

It's Christmas break here in ATL - a glorious and much needed time to rest, relax, and recharge. I have successfully finished grades and I even took a full day off of the computer to do the whole holiday hoopla thing with the family. Now, in the blissfully quiet mornings when my coffee and I can be together in peace, I am able to do a little dreaming and planning for next semester.

I am on the prowl for other schools out there doing what I'm wanting to do - or what I think I want to do. There are several resources hailing the philosophy of 21st Century Literacy (a new term I ran across yesterday for what it is this class is trying to be) but I am struggling to find examples of what that actually looks like. Until now. I saw this video from Coral Reef High School and I can't stop smiling. Finally, a point of view from the students themselves as to what the possibilities are for a new kind of learning:

Check it out.