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Yearly Roundup – The 20 best edublog posts of 2006
118 CommentsI reckon I’ve learned more this year, my 26th year of existence, than any in any other. Of course, as each year passes my ability to process and synthesize knowledge increases (which is handy) but I think the amount I’ve learned this year actually reflects the multitude of excellent blogs and concomitant posts which I’ve read. I certainly haven’t read as many books this year. I’m not sure whether that’s a bad thing or not… ;)
Please feel free to add your blog posts of the year in the comments section! :D
In what follows I want to look at the blog posts that I’ve linked to in my Weekly Roundups and Weekly Links that I think have been the stand-out ones. These posts have either changed my way of thinking about something, challenged me, or opened my eyes. The list, then:
- Chris Sessums – ALT-C 2006 — Transforming Learning: evolution or revolution (reflections on a conference session framed by the question, ‘Should change evolve incrementally over time or is a more radical approach required to transform learning and teaching in an increasingly e-world?’)
- Chris Sessums – Getting IT Right Socially: reflections from ALT-C 2006 (again, focused around a conference session, this time with the central question, ‘Is the locus of control of learning different given ICTs and social software and what should educators do?’)
- Chris Sessums – Stop Making Sense: paradox as a teaching tool (looks at the power of paradox to enable learners to ‘think outside the box’ in a counter-factual way)
- Clarence Fisher – Mini-Manifesto for Classrooms 2.0 (inspired by Gaping Void, Clarence attempts to draw up a manifesto for the classroom of the future in less than 500 words)
- Dave Warlick – Flat Classrooms and Flat Classrooms, Curious Students (Dave’s ruminations on teaching and learning in a post-Friedmanian world. Would have been funnier if the post had been entitled ‘Flat Classrooms, Flatter Students’…) ;)
- Doug Noon – An Internet of Classrooms (proposes the idea that the classroom is not a place to be inhabited, it is something else – both less and more at the same time…)
- Doug Noon – Making Things Public (much as I dislike putting people in pigeon-holes, the two mindsets juxtaposed in this post sums up my thinking very well – the diagram is handy too!)
- George Siemens – Discussion: Stephen Downes (it’s a privilege to be able to listen in to a conversation between two of the world’s super-intelligent, influential and innovative educators)
- Jay Cross – What is Informal Learning? (I have a problem with what I term ‘formalization’ – i.e. the desire for the human race to make things rigid and left-brainish. This post turns that on its head. Marvellous!)
- Karl Fisch – Did You Know? (linked to by pretty much every edublog known to mankind – a thought-provoking presentation about the ways the world is changing)
- Karl Fisch – The Teacher’s Safety Net (expands on Barbara Ganley’s post about the arrogance we show as educators when we presume to know what to teach students without ever having met them. Instead, the syllabus should be a safety net)
- Karyn Romeis – The Changing Face of Literacy and More On The Changing Face of LiteracyEd.D. thesis – the changing nature of knowledge, and therefore, literacy, in the 21st century)(something I’m examining in my
- Kathy Sierra - Hooverin’ and the Space Between Notes (this list could easily have been solely populated with posts from Kathy’s blog. This is on the importance of the space inbetween the things you do with your students. Inspired.)
- Kathy Sierra – Rhythm Method (no, not that rhythm method – this one means analyzing and utilizing the natural rhythm that occurs whenever people get together, including in classrooms!)
- Kathy Sierra – Why “it’s good for you” doesn’t work (looks at the importance of interacting with people on an emotional, not just a detached, impersonal level in order to motivate them)
- Leigh Blackall – Teaching is Dead – Long Live Learning (a great presentation that looks at the declining need for traditional-style teaching in the 21st century – wiki page and presentation link here)
- Mike Muir – The Answer to Curriculum Might Not Be Content – Part I and Part II (predicates curriculum design on the fact that some kids are harder to teach, not less intelligent than others – a great way to look at it)
- Various – Things You Really Need to Learn – Guy Kawasaki, Wes Fryer, Stephen Downes & others (Wes and Stephen comment on Guy’s original post from educators’ points of view. Unmissable.)
- Wes Fryer – Messy Assessment Instead of Flogging The Standards (Wes agrees about the importance of assessment, but despairs at the rigidly standardized ways we currently do it – instead he advocates ‘messy assessment’. Worth reading.)
- Will Richardson – Experts vs. Collective Intelligence (looks at the increasing importance of networks in a world where the nature of knowledge, truth, teaching and learning are changing)
Presumably you’re reading this because you want to read the best of what someone else believes was published during 2006. Other people apart from me are also doing this. Check out, amongst others:
What? You’re still reading this?! Well I’d better finish off with favourite posts that I’ve written this year. There’s four:
Happy New Year everyone! :D
(Photo credits: School of Fish, after school special, <><><>playground, and Gradation(angle) – all @ Flickr)
Published on December 31, 2006 · Filed under: Uncategorized;
118 Responses to “Yearly Roundup – The 20 best edublog posts of 2006”
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Ok, I’ll bite. I’ve been called out by two bloggers (Doug and Jane) on the “five things you don’t know about me” post. 1. I was born in Mexico…where I lived for the first six years of my life. I……
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Flattered to be included in this illustrious list, Doug. And thanks for reminding me of some of the posts I have read and enjoyed.
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Thanks for the mention. It is always nice to know that your words are not falling out into the blogosphere unnoticed.
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