Resources

Here is a starting point for our conversations about the future of learning. Please feel free to add to this list!

=Kick Start Your Thinking=


 * Spontaneous Online Learning Communities:**
 * Bulbapeida: Pokemon wiki with nearly 18,000 fan-edited articles, forums etc. Excitement about adding new content is so high (because some new games were just released) that they're considering locking the site for a while.
 * Harry Potter fanfics: Passionate fans of Harry Potter write their own stories with the existing characters.
 * BrothersBrick & Lego Flickr Group: Showcased creations by the LEGO amateur builders' community.
 * PaperKraft: Models made out of paper. Most posts include printable color plans.
 * Google's 3D Warehouse: online hub for sharing SketchUp models.
 * GameFAQs: 40,000 VERY detailed video game walkthroughs written by amateurs.
 * Parkour Generations & American Parkour community sites: for people who enjoy jumping off buildings without a net
 * IBSGroup: Mind-blowingly detailed support group info hub for Irritable Bowel Syndrome


 * Videos:**
 * The Essay
 * FrontLine: DigitalNation
 * FronLine: Growing up Online
 * Introducing the Book
 * Connected Part 2: Academic Uses
 * Joe’s Non-Netbook
 * Through Web 2.0
 * Has education changed since the industrial revolution?
 * Winkle Wakes
 * From Questions to Concepts: Interactive Teaching in Physics
 * [|No Future Left Behind]


 * Conversations:**
 * The World is Open (Chapter 1)
 * The Future of Learning 10 Years On (by Stephen Downes)
 * The Mindset List
 * Looking Back, Looking Ahead
 * 2020 Forecast: Creating The Future of Learning
 * 2006-2016 Map of Future Forces Affecting Education
 * What's on the Horizon?
 * The look of change

=Breakout Sessions=


 * Presentation Zen/Creative Commons

**Useful Tags**

Delicious:
 * futureoflearning
 * future of learning
 * future+learning
 * future+education

= **Modeling the Future, Today:** =

Connect Yourself: Networks

 * [|Classroom 2.0 Ning]
 * [|Global SchoolNet]
 * Global Collaborations
 * [|The Global Education Collaborative Ning]
 * [|Flat Classrooms Ning]
 * [|Online Projects For Teachers Ning]
 * [|Projects By Jen Ning]
 * [|Teen Second Classroom]
 * [|Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC)]
 * [|TWICE]
 * [|Collaborations Around the Planet]
 * [|Teachers Connecting]
 * [|Kim's List of international school teachers on Twitter/Blogging] (see also the [|Google Spreadsheet] for most current list)
 * We Follow (Twitter): [|International Schools]
 * [|Twitter4Teachers]
 * Find relevant Twitterers via [|Mr. Tweet]
 * Twitter Groups: [|International School Teachers] (find other groups by [|browsing through alphabetically] )
 * Twibes: [|EdTech] (find other groups by browsing)

Connect Yourself: Conferences

 * The Global Education Conference
 * K12Online Conference

Connect Yourself: Directories

 * ==== **Blogs**  ==== || ====  **Twitter**  ==== || ====  **Podcasts**  ==== || ====  **uStream Channels**  ==== || ====  **Conferences**  ==== ||
 * [|Alltop Education] || [|Directory of Learning Professionals] || [|Education Podcast Netowrk] || [|tagged education] || [|hitchhikr] ||
 * [|Dangerously Irrelevant List] (June 2008) || [|Twitter4Teachers] || [|Digg Education Podcasts] || [|tagged learning] || [|The Conference Channel] ||
 * [|Support Blogging] ||  || [|EdTechTalk] ||   ||   ||
 * ||  || EdTechLive ||   ||   ||

Introducing Globally Collaborative Projects:

 * [|First Steps Towards Becoming a 21st Century Educator]
 * [|How to Connect Your Students Globally]
 * [|A Step-by-Step Guide to Global Collaborations]
 * [|Why Go Global? Or Learning for the Future!]
 * <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 3em;">[|Five Tips for Creating a Global Classroom]
 * <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 3em;">Going Global! Culture Shock, Convergence & The Future of Education (K12Online Pre-Conference Keynote by Kim)
 * Connecting Classrooms Across Continents (presentation by Kim)
 * Connecting Classrooms Across Continents (presentation by Kim and Jen Wagner)


 * From Julie:**
 * [|7 Steps to a Flat Classroom]
 * [|Conversations about Collaboration and Global Projects]
 * [|Collaboration: Concept, Power and Magic]
 * [|Laptop and 1:1 Programs and Web 2.0]
 * [|Beyond the 'Wow': Embed the flat learning experience for sustainability]
 * [|How to Flatten your Classroom: Getting Started]
 * [|Are You Really There?]
 * [|Adventures in Online Synchronous Communication]
 * [|My 2020 Vision for Global Collaboration]
 * [|Citizenship: Digital and Global]

= **General Resources** =

**Recommended Videos**

 * <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 3em;">[|3 Steps to a 21st Century Classroom]
 * <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 3em;">[|Learning to Change, Changing to Learn]
 * <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 3em;">[|Learning to Change, Changing to Learn, Student Voices]
 * <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 3em;">[|21st Century Pedagogy]
 * A Fair(y) Use Tale (the last section on Fair Use only)
 * Ted.com [|Ken Robinson talk]

Recommended Reading

 * Disrupting Class by Claton Christenson
 * Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
 * The World is Flat by Thomas Freedman
 * A Whole New Mind by Dan Pink
 * Everything is Miscellaneous by David Weinberger
 * The Book of Learning and Forgetting By Frank Smith
 * The Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett
 * Brain Rules by John Medina

**Blogs Mentioned**
Clarence Fisher: Even From Here (creating a studio environment in the classroom)

Be Less Helpful
Dan Meyer's blog: dy/dan TED Talk: Math Class Needs a Makeover

= **Online Permission Forms** =
 * [|Workshop Pre-K to 2.docx] for VoiceThread by Brendan Lea
 * [|Grade 3-6 for Workshop.docx] for VoiceThread and United Streaming by Brendan Lea
 * [|Online 7-12 Workshop] for VoiceThread and United Streaming by Brendan Lea