Career Tech Talk

As part of the summer series on Web 2.0 in education, an interview with David Warlick, an author, public speaker and consultant on 21st century teaching and learning, and a 30-year educator. Warlick discusses specific uses of blogs and wikis in the classroom, explains the wonder of RSS and how it can help educators with their professional development, and describes his own classroom blogging service, Class Blogmeister.

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As part of a summer series on Web 2.0 in education, ACTE interviews Steve Hargadon, project director for the Consortium for School Networking K-12 Open Technologies Initiative and founder of Classroom 2.0, a social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and education. Hargadon talks about Web 2.0, or the read/write or participatory Web, and how it is leading to a fundamental shift in our world and in education. He also shares online resources and discusses student safety on the Internet and how to manage information overload.

For anyone new to Web 2.0—and don’t worry, you’re not alone—here are definitions of some of the terms we’ll be using in this podcast.

• A social network is a group of people who meet in an online space, often to participate on message boards and share resources. Classroom 2.0 is an example of a niche social network, while Facebook and MySpace are very broad social networks.
• A wiki is an easy to edit Web site where anyone can add to or correct the information. The most famous example of this is Wikipedia.
• Second Life is a virtual world; it looks like a video game, but participants are actually doing normal life activities such as going to work and buying a house.
• Social bookmarking is a way for you to organize online information into categories and to rate online information.

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Interview with Ken Smith, reporter, news anchor and inaugural ACTE Image Award winner. Smith speaks about his activities to support the School-to-Career program in the Wake County Public School System, his personal history with CTE and his commitment to volunteerism with students, and why national and local celebrities and leaders need to support CTE and School-to-Career programs.

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Interview with Bill Sanders, chair of the 2008 Workforce Innovations conference. Sanders discusses the conference’s appeal to different players in workforce development, including career and technical education professionals, and describes conference sessions and educational tours in New Orleans. He also explains the U.S. Department of Labor’s initiatives for developing a skilled workforce and stresses the importance of different pathways to postsecondary education.

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Interview with Dr. Edward Kealy, executive director of the Committee for Education Funding. Dr. Kealy discusses the Administration’s proposed FY2009 budget, including cuts for career and technical education; the effect of the housing slowdown on education funding; and what the committee and you as individuals can do to help. He also addresses education’s role in the current Presidential campaign.

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Interview with Andrea Higham, director of the Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing’s Future. Higham discusses the nurse shortage and the nurse educator shortage and what the campaign is doing to alleviate both. She describes the campaign’s resources, the importance of mentorship in nursing, and the need for partnerships between industry, associations and hospitals as well as the need for more government funds for nursing. For more information on the Campaign for Nursing’s Future, visit www.CampaignforNursing.com and www.DiscoverNursing.com.

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Interview with Josh Schuler, executive director of the Lemelson-MIT Program, which encourages student invention and innovation through grants, competitions and other outreach activities. Schuler describes the kind of inventive student projects the program has funded, the need for mentorship and collaboration in invention, and the importance of creative thinking and a sustainable culture of invention in our schools. He also looks beyond STEM disciplines to the other skills needed to invent successfully.

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