Warlick

=David Warlick=

David Warlick David taught middle school science, social studies, and math for many years then moved all the way up to educational technology consultant for the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction. Now he is a writer, speaker, and consultant. His expertise is in educational/instructional technology and professional development. He has a classroom blogging site for schools, and for fun, a blog he calls 2¢ Worth where he posts his new ideas or thoughts (mostly about education). He provides little information and waits for people (mostly teacher) to respond with their thought. He wants people to toss the idea around, bounce in new ideas or twists, and see if it materializes into a helpful piece of knowledge for society or education. In this blog he shares things he has read and either learned from or enjoyed. He also gets a lot of his ideas from reading and listening to presentations about new or cutting edge ideas (mostly relating to technology in education). His blog is easy to navigate but has a very busy look. It is full of current issues and discussions about education and lessons and trials with technology. He seems to be keep busy with his [|Video-A-Day] and [|Infographic-A-Day]. Which probably started with his intrigue with what technology can do. He does not consider himself a tech savvy person, but loves what he can do with it. I like his ideas in the [|next text books]. He believes that they should be interactive and able to grow, that we should not turn books in when we are done with them, but continue to add to them. Teachers and parents would have the ability to manipulate what the students see or need to explore. Students could drill into topics for more detail from articles or websites, work on things they are interested in, solve the problems, start over, or move back and take a different route. Giving the students control over the speed, issues to explore, and how to get an answer. I agree with his views on [|lifelong learning]. His most recent book, [|A Gardener’s Approach to Learning], is a guide for teachers on how to model, and hopefully instills, the desire to continue to learn, and to make an effort or a plan to learn throughout one’s life.

TD