I can't tell you how excited the participants from ISB are. We are sending a large group.

It's going to be a fun conference full of learning. As Jeff said, our learning will be about learning which too often doesn't happen at conferen… Continue

Cross-posted from my blog at Thinking Allowed.

This post has been a long time coming.

For a while now, I’ve been intrigued by the ever-growing need for visual literacy in our off- and on-line worlds. This is not ground-breaking stuff…the sense/need for learners to gain visual literacy has been around for a while – even pre-Web.

People have been studying and manipulating how the eye moves over a page of text (see any speed reader

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Tomorrow (today but without sleep), Justin and I present our ideas for an embedded curriculum of thinking and literacy. We are excited. It's our chance to take our ideas and share them with like (and dislike) minds.

To get feedback and critique.

What has been nice is that so much of what we have heard this weekend has confirmed our direction.

Will Richardson spoke about the difference between how our kids live with technology and how we expect them to learn with techn… Continue

Being proactive, we checked on what plugs are used in China...we found that the sockets are like the UK and Malaysia...so we told our teachers coming to Shanghai to bring that....

Well, we were wrong!

In Shanghai, it's like the Aussie plug (3 points with bottom two slanted at angle)

or a… Continue

I have been left off of the Sessions Program as co-presenting with Justin Medved on our ideas on new literacy and a different way to create and work an integrated technology curriculum.

Not a complaint, but just a way to plug for having you attend our session.

We are Session 8 and we'd love to see you there and get your thoughts and feedback on what we've come up with.

Guaranteed to thought-provoke!… Continue