I’m spending the morning reviewing the statements collected so far on the Big Ideas 4 Education web site. This morning saw 205 statements posted so far, but after trimming out the duplicates (some folks think that’s cute), we were down to 135. That number is too unwieldy for the method of collation that I originally had in mind. So I am reading each one and developing a shorter list of basic statements — up to seven.
At this point, I think I’ll ask people, starting tomorrow morning, to take ten of the statements, and link them to one of the seven (or so) basic statements. This way we will have things a little better organized for Phase 3, where I’ll ask education bloggers to take a crack it the list.
The final voting is still something of a mystery for me. Right now, I’m thinking about voting on the individual items as oposed to the larger topics, but we’ll see how things go between now and then.
As far as the items, I haven’t seen anything revolutionary, though:
Eliminate tenure in exchange for a system where the termination of a teacher must be done through collective action. (id 258)
That was a new one for me. I especially liked:
Aim for creativity and collaboration, not for standardized and competitive.
There is more to read and more coming in, I’m sure. I’ve included a Wordle of the posts already in — just for the fun of it.
Cheers!
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Dave,
Thank you for this opportunity – just so you know, when you hit “refresh” it reposts your submission which will explain my double post. There isn’t any way for me to delete what I contributed to your “Big Ideas.”
I figured that’s what it was for most folks. But a couple of people reposted their statements 15 times. Thanks for contributing…
David,
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy reading and learning from your blog. I am enjoying following this Big Idea 4 education project. Thanks for being a great teacher.
I still think you should sent the compilation to President-elect Obama.