April 1st was the opening of our community and the introduction to "The Matrix of a Learner".  The concept of transitioning our current model of education to one that is learner based has been well received.  

Before we can turn it over with confidence there will be the resources and supports to do so successfully, we need to grow our membership and our library.  When membership grows, the resources in the library grow which will bring in more members.  It's called crowd-sourcing with quality control.  

It can happen very quickly but to meet the "tipping point" it takes you all to spread the word and gather members.  

As of the writing of this post we have: 48 members and 115 lessons.

Our goal for next Sunday, April 13 is:  150 members, 150 lessons.

Can you help us reach this goal?

nggematrix

T-3 days before NGGE2000 Community Opens

Talk is increasingly negative when it's about education.  Whether through discussions, blogs, conferences, webinars, workshops; it's happening all over the world.  Learners are demanding change and we need to listen.
Next Generation Global Education has talked about switching the roles in education, creating a resource, the Universal Library for Learning, that could support personalized learning and most recently designed "The Matrix of a Learner".
Now it is time to put thoughts, ideas, dreams, visions in motion.  We come together to learn from and with each other.  This is how.

Log into ngge2000.ning.com
This is what you see:

Click on the right corner where it says "Click here to join".  That takes you to the sign up page.

Fill out the short form, click Sign Up at the bottom left.

Now it's time to stop the talk and look at how it can be changed.  

NGGE2000 Ning Community comes live on the 1st of April.  At that time  our new " Matrix of a Learner", as well as the seed of the Universal Library for Learning will become visible.
But you can join now, meet other members , start a discussion,  enter your class or register an "after school club".  

To the many professionals who have mentored NGGE through the years to those just joining one of our groups - Thank you and welcome. Don't miss out on  the opportunity to share your learning with the world.

Take a few minutes to join the NGGE2000 Community and help to transition education back to the learners.

Thank you,

Tracy Hanson, CEO

Next Generation Global Education

Giving Back

There are 5 pieces to our learning. Once we begin to master concepts we are learning we can create and in fact, give back or share with others the learning you accomplished.  Learning from and with peers is a very powerful form of education.

This example of the "give back" learning was sent to me by a fellow educator.  This is presentation done by a high school student for is video productions class.  It's not perfect but it's pretty darn good. Don't you think this would grab a learners attention more then just opening to a textbook page?
Our Story in Two Minutes

Have you done any learning you would like to share.  Visit us - Next Generation Global Education

Power of community

“Teachers unions shouldn’t be surprised the implementation was botched,” said Lindsey Burke, the Will Skillman Fellow in Education at The Heritage Foundation. “This is what happens with one-size-fits-all bureaucratic initiatives.”

No truer words have not been spoken up front.  We gone though open classrooms, whole language, Reading First, to many to list over the past 40 years.  They may have been some advantages to the approach but it wouldn't matter- it would fail and so will the Common Core Standards.  Why?  Because the system will not change HOW education is delivered to learners.  

At NGGE, we look at the HOW!

Insanity = Continuing to use a teach to test system

We have a teach to test educational system that is killing the curiosity and motivation to seek out answers.  Children are born curious and motivated to learn about and interact with their environment.   It doesn't shut down when they reach the age of 5 or 6.  Our school system turns it off.   And did they have to take a test to see if they had mastered drumming on pots, cruising the furniture, drinking from a cup?

We will get what we ask for if we don't make some changes now.  Failure is getting to be to costly.