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Podcast: Three Schools Discover the 21st Century!

One for the MiniLegends

[Update: I was out of the loop preparing for my wedding when Australian Al Upton’s MiniLegends and Qatar’s Jabiz Raisdana got hit by two shockingly reactionary hammers. Since this podcast features Noel Thomas, an Australian high school principal representing all that is most forward-thinking and impressive about Australia’s educational system, I’d like to dedicate this podcast to Al, the MiniLegends, and Jabiz. Noel, I can’t help but fantasize that you and Al discover each other and join forces. As you say in the podcast, most teachers will never get it. Al is a teacher who has impressed us all for years with how much he does get it. (h/t to John Connell for the miniLegends badge - John, I hope you don’t mind me nicking it?)]

Love This Podcast, or I’ll Eat a Bug

As I say in the intro to this podcast, if you don’t find it the most interesting hour of podcasting I’ve ever done, I’ll eat a bug. (And yes, Los Angelenos, that is a quote from the old Cal Worthington used car commercials of the ’80s.) That intro was hard, by the way: I tried about 8 times to summarize why I’m so excited about the things happening in that podcast, but couldn’t, and did the “eat a bug” intro instead. In retrospect, it sounds silly. But I had to get the thing published.

Creative Destruction Abundant

What walls don’t come down in this hour-long talk? Bye-bye edu-caste system, bye-bye geographic and temporal barriers. My guests are from three continents and four levels of school hierarchy:

High School Principal Noel Thomas, Toorak College, Melbourne, Australia
High School Principal (and next year’s Director) Rich Boerner, Korea International School, Seoul, South Korea (my employer)
Librarian Jenny Luca, Toorak College, Melbourne
Lara H., high school student, Toorak College
Lindsea Kemp-Wilber, Punahou High School student (and Students 2.o staff writer), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
and me, high school teacher and tool-guy, Korea International School

Download to iTunes here [right-click and “save link as” or “save target,” then open with iTunes], or listen below (Quicktime free download required)

http://pod.kis.or.kr//blojsom_resources/meta/cburell/PGC%20Australia.m4a

Intro: I’ll Eat a Bug
Audio Snapshots
Welcome
Noel Thomas, Toorak College, Melbourne Australia
Toorak’s Dilemma re: Web Access for Students
Rich Boerner, Korea Internat’l School, Seoul
KIS’ Open Web Access for Students
Factors Favoring Relaxed Filtering at KIS
Toorak Librarain Jenny Luca: Toorak Change Agent
Jenny’s Views on the Value of Blogging to Learn
Toorak and KIS Connect thru Project Global Cooling
Lindsea Kemp-Wilbur, Intro (Hawaii Student)
Student Lindsea Teaching the World
Lara H., Intro (Australia Student)
Sustainability at Our Specific Schools
Broader Issues of Connecting Schools for Learning
Lindsea on Youthnet: Student-Initiated Global Collaboration via Twitter and Wiki
How Clay in Korea has Known Lindsea in Hawaii for Almost 2 Years
Getting Teachers to Accept Student-Led Collaborative Projects
Getting Students to Rise to the Challenge of Laptop Learning
KIS Student Patrick Nam as Model of Networked Learning
Noel’s Approach to Keeping Students Responsible Online
Jenny’s Approach to Pulling Students In
Clay on the Importance of Same Time-Zone Partner Schools
Rich on Importance of Collab AT SCHOOL, not home
Acceptable Use Policy
Toward an Eastern Hemisphere Schools Network
Spreading the Word to Students about Youthnet
Lindsea as Model for Student Imitation
Lara: PGC Should Be Easy in Australia
Difficulties with Projects in Korea
Media Interest in Project Global Cooling
Clay’s Parting Shot: This Tech is EASY
Parting Shots
Closing Comments: Project Global Cooling Growing: Seoul, Hawaii, Australia in, and Beijing, Los Angeles, and Bangkok Nibbling - Add Your School This Year or Next
(Name Your Bug)