Comments on: Manna Isn’t Falling From The Sky http://future.teacherleaders.org/2010/07/manna-isnt-falling-from-the-sky/ Keepers of the Flame Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:55:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jose http://future.teacherleaders.org/2010/07/manna-isnt-falling-from-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Jose Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:10:34 +0000 http://future.teacherleaders.org/?p=141#comment-180 We just went through some upgrades in our system, so sorry for the late responses. David, thank you. It's definitely cliche, but it's still very necessary. We still haven't reached that point, and we need to continue pushing towards that. Stephanie, the first thing you can do is pick up our book, Teaching2030. Once you've been acclimated to what we're about in full (and no, it's not a promo, just where we are), I'll most definitely forward your message to our brethren at the Center for Teaching Quality (the site highlighted in the bottom corner of this site). Thank you for chiming in and you'll hear more from us soon! We just went through some upgrades in our system, so sorry for the late responses.

David, thank you. It’s definitely cliche, but it’s still very necessary. We still haven’t reached that point, and we need to continue pushing towards that.

Stephanie, the first thing you can do is pick up our book, Teaching2030. Once you’ve been acclimated to what we’re about in full (and no, it’s not a promo, just where we are), I’ll most definitely forward your message to our brethren at the Center for Teaching Quality (the site highlighted in the bottom corner of this site). Thank you for chiming in and you’ll hear more from us soon!

]]> By: David Fleming http://future.teacherleaders.org/2010/07/manna-isnt-falling-from-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-166 David Fleming Thu, 24 Feb 2011 23:37:36 +0000 http://future.teacherleaders.org/?p=141#comment-166 Excellent post! I will have to remember this when I feel hopeless about the direction of education. While it may sound very cliché, it is true that we each need to be the change we want to see in our schools. Excellent post! I will have to remember this when I feel hopeless about the direction of education. While it may sound very cliché, it is true that we each need to be the change we want to see in our schools.

]]> By: Stephanie Dulmage http://future.teacherleaders.org/2010/07/manna-isnt-falling-from-the-sky/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Stephanie Dulmage Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:41:18 +0000 http://future.teacherleaders.org/?p=141#comment-95 I completely agree with your response to the lecturer. The challenge is bridging the gap, or scaffolding the learning as Vygotsky would say, for teachers to embrace the change in education and the future of what education should look like. Your statement above “Many of us are just not ready to think 3.0 when we’re still catching up to 2.0″ is so true and really hits the nail on the head. Right now teachers PD is limited to the now or the short term goals and rarely looks at the future. Until these types of conversations start to happen as part of PD at the teacher, student, parent and district level change will not occur. Education is classrooms today has really not changed at all. Teachers are the change agents but often don’t see that or have the power to make these changes. We keep having a lot of conversastion about moving classrooms away from teacher centric to student centric, maybe PD and education of the future needs to move away from top down centric to teacer, student, parent centric. I believe a very powerful force in change and innovative thinking for teachers is the digital world and the powerful networking and collaboration that can occur through web sites such as this. This makes me think of the charge we should take on described in Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in A Connected Age. His thoughts on the power of our cognitive surplus, our connectdeness, and access to information in the digital world have the power to put our untapped talent and goodwill to use to transform our world. Maybe this should be the mission of all teachers. I look forward to following and learning from the work you are doing at the teacher’s network 2030. Are there any ways other than through blogging I can get involved or be a part of this network or the work of this group? I completely agree with your response to the lecturer. The challenge is bridging the gap, or scaffolding the learning as Vygotsky would say, for teachers to embrace the change in education and the future of what education should look like. Your statement above “Many of us are just not ready to think 3.0 when we’re still catching up to 2.0″ is so true and really hits the nail on the head. Right now teachers PD is limited to the now or the short term goals and rarely looks at the future. Until these types of conversations start to happen as part of PD at the teacher, student, parent and district level change will not occur. Education is classrooms today has really not changed at all. Teachers are the change agents but often don’t see that or have the power to make these changes. We keep having a lot of conversastion about moving classrooms away from teacher centric to student centric, maybe PD and education of the future needs to move away from top down centric to teacer, student, parent centric.

I believe a very powerful force in change and innovative thinking for teachers is the digital world and the powerful networking and collaboration that can occur through web sites such as this. This makes me think of the charge we should take on described in Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in A Connected Age. His thoughts on the power of our cognitive surplus, our connectdeness, and access to information in the digital world have the power to put our untapped talent and goodwill to use to transform our world. Maybe this should be the mission of all teachers.

I look forward to following and learning from the work you are doing at the teacher’s network 2030. Are there any ways other than through blogging I can get involved or be a part of this network or the work of this group?

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