In the last five years, a new digital economy has risen, where creative information artisans from across the globe are producing media products and marketing them through a new digital bazaar. The... More > challenge of professional educators is to answer the question, "What are the basic skills of this information driven age, and how do we teach them?< Less
In the same way that a garden is a rich and intertwined ecosystem where plants, air, soil, birds and bugs interact to grow and reproduce, today's emerging information landscape is an info-system,... More > where content is produced, published, accessed, consumed, discussed, re-mixed and re-published. To be a "master learner" -- to be a teacher -- today, you must learn to work the info-system in order to cultivate new knowledge and skills from a continual flow of information.
This book is a guide for teachers who seek to model for their students the practices of lifelong learning.< Less
Weblogs are about reading and writing. Literacy is about reading and writing. Blogging equals literacy. How rarely does an aspect of how we live and work plug so perfectly into how we teach and... More > learn? Reading this book will give teachers important clues not only in how to become a blogger and to make their students bloggers, but also how this new avenue of expression is revolutionizing the information environment that we live in.< Less
In the last five years, a new digital economy has risen, where creative information artisans from across the globe are producing media products and marketing them through a new digital bazaar. The... More > challenge of professional educators is to answer the question, "What are the basic skills of this information driven age, and how do we teach them?< Less
In the same way that a garden is a rich and intertwined ecosystem where plants, air, soil, birds and bugs interact to grow and reproduce, today's emerging information landscape is an info-system,... More > where content is produced, published, accessed, consumed, discussed, re-mixed and re-published. To be a "master learner" -- to be a teacher -- today, you must learn to work the info-system in order to cultivate new knowledge and skills from a continual flow of information.
This book is a guide for teachers who seek to model for their students the practices of lifelong learning.< Less
A garden is a rich and intertwined ecosystem where plants, air, soil, birds and bugs interact to grow and reproduce. Gardening is discovering the ecosystem and learning to work its... More > interconnectedness to grow beauty and food.
Today's emerging information landscape is an info-system where content is produced, published, accessed, consumed, discussed, remixed and re-published. To be a lifelong learner today, you must learn to work the info-system in order to cultivate knowledge from a continual flow of information.< Less
