Invitation to Participate in a Collaborative Book on 21st Century Teaching and Learning

[Sandy Hirtz]

Invitation to contribute to a Collaborative Book on 21st Century Teaching and Learning!

The first edition, Education for a Digital World: Advice, Guidelines, and Effective Practice from Around the Globe, was published by the Commonwealth of Learning in July 08 and is available to download from their website.

The creation of this book employed a unique interactive collaborative research model, a forming relationships model, the sharing of ideas to produce new thinking model. It had almost 50 contributors from around the globe representing education, research, administration and business, it has a global perspective. Take a look at our map of contributors!

We are now working on a 2nd Edition. The tentative title is Innovations in Education, but it could become Education for a Digital World, Edition 2. It will be published by CoL to coincide with PCF6 in India 2010 from 24 - 28 November. http://www.col.org/progServ/panComm/Pages/pcf.aspx

An organizational meeting will be held online, May 22nd in elluminate. For details and further information visit our page in Wikieducator or our Book Wiki

[Sandy Hirtz]

For the next couple of weeks we are identifying potential co-authoring opportunities, defining potential clusters or categories of interest, and more. We hope you will be interested in participating in this adventure.

If you know of anyone else who would be a strong contributor, please encourage him or her to join this our project space in WikiEducator.

We are holding two online kick-off meetings via elluminate to get the ball rolling. May 22nd at 10am, and May 25th at 5pm. These meetings will be recorded and posted on wikispaces and on wikieducator for anyone who cannot attend.

Click here for a direct link to our Collaborative Book Project Elluminate Live Online Meeting Room.

[Don Li]

Fascinating concept and initiative. Thanks for bringing it up.

[Michael Leventhal]

I am participating in a group created by Katherina Boser of Autism Speaks. Members include researchers at MIT, Georgia Tech, et.al. who presented cutting-edge technology at the IMFAR conference earlier this year. View The Sixth Sense about new ways to access meta information and Siftables which I call "byte-sized" computers (don't forget to watch the clip).

Autism Speaks is promoting my web-collaboration to test and report on technology used with autism. The intention is to create a world-wide action/reporting network to assemble the first user's guide to technology for autism. A zagat-style report with both objectives measures and anecdotal reports to help other users and advise researchers and publishers. Caregiver's who buy the technology are the same ones who are recommending it (or not) to others. I've received an inquiry from Tatjana Titareva of Gerson Lehrman Group about using the project to kick off a program for professional development in Northern India.

There are many professionals and parents currently connected in groups discussing technology used with Special Education. If you choose, please start by looking at my LinkedIn Profile or my site Technology Integration in Special Education

Michael

[Dedrick]

I just joined this site and this seems like a wonderful opportunity....... is it still available?

[Sandy Hirtz]

Hello Dedrick,
Thank you for your interest.
Yes it is still available. We have over 60 authors from countries all over the world participating. Visit our wikispaces wiki to view the full project details.
http://collaborativebook.wikispaces.com/

[Mary Hricko]

is there still time to particpate?

[Sandy Hirtz]

Hi Mary,
Yes there is still time.
Visit our wikispaces wiki to view the full project details.
http://collaborativebook.wikispaces.com/

You will need to join the wiki to add a title and abstract. The wiki has all the information you need to develop a chapter. You can also view our first edition to look at chapter samples and meet our publisher, the Commonwealth of Learning.
http://www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/Pages/edDigitalWorld.aspx

I look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers
Sandy