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It’s Weekly Links rather than a Weekly Roundup proper again this week, I’m afraid! Hopefully, excessive mince pie-eating incidents nonewithstanding, I’ll have a Yearly Roundup for your delectation either next week or the week after. Now that’s something to look forward to…. 
Whilst I don’t slavishly follow the zeitgest, I do find that things become popular and decline in popularity for a reason. Google Reader and Bloglines are a case in point this week. I’ve switched from the latter to the former - as have many people - as I’ve found that the improvements in Google Reader merited it. Hence I may have missed some posts this week. If you’ve posted something great that I’ve missed, I do apologise…
Anyway, on with this week’s links:
- Christopher D. Sessums - Keeping Up With Technological Change: has the future arrived too soon? (discusses Alvin Toffler and the concept of ‘de-synchronization’ - many, if not most schools, are organized in ways that deal with a ‘reality’ that is obsolete)
- Remote Access - Radical Transparency in Classrooms (looks at Wired magazine’s decision to adopt a completely open-to-the-public, ‘wikified’ planning, development and execution model and looks at how this could be applied in education)
- Remote Access - Studio Unit Planning (another great post by Clarence Fisher in which he looks at how he can adopt a more ’studio-like’ way of organizing his classroom - he includes the graphic below, which I like!)
- Cool Cat Teacher Blog - iTalk about the pioneers of the future (starts off with a discussion of technology, but then moves on to a great section on what it means to have a ‘learning disability’ now versus in Socratic times vs. in the future. Very interesting!)
- elearnspace - The role of management in facilitating change within a learning organization (still need to follow up on this one properly, but anything by George Siemens that cites Stephen Downes has to be good…)
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