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1.	Establish a education vision statement that combines trends, students' info-experience, & a prevailing digi-networked information landscape. Tag with bigideas4education1 • View Related Blog Articles	(+)
2.	Rewrite standards to more accurately reflect today's environment, our students needs & unique capabilities, and their future. Tag with bigideas4education2 • View Related Blog Articles	(+)
3.	Establish new methods and structures for improving community communication. Tag with bigideas4education3 • View Related Blog Articles	(+)
4.	Overhaul teacher education, and policies and procedures for professional development. Tag with bigideas4education4 • View Related Blog Articles	(+)
5.	Facilitate an exploration of new education methods and pedagogies that reflect today's children and their information experiences, abundant and connective information environments, and 21st century skills. Tag with bigideas4education5 • View Related Blog Articles	(+)
6.	Restructure the school environment including grades, school day/year schedule, building (or lack there of), information infrastructure, roles & rules, staffing, governance, and choice. Tag with bigideas4education6 • View Related Blog Articles	(+)
7.	Commit to funding that is adequate to true education reform that reflects today's rapidly changing world, our students' info-experiences, and a dramatically new information landscape. Tag with bigideas4education7 • View Related Blog Articles	(+)
8.	Overhaul state and national assessment policies and procedures. Tag with bigideas4education8 • View Related Blog Articles	(+)

Phase 1

Spend about two-and-a-half days composing and posting clear and succinct (140 character limit) priority actions for a U.S. Ed Department aimed at promoting and empowering a system that better prepares today�fs children for their future.

Phase 2

The submitted statements will be linked together according to topic, reducing the final list to no more than twenty basic action statements -- if possible.

Phase 3

Instructions

Calling educator bloggers to think about the topics on the left and the substatements, and and then talk about them in your blogs. If education is going to face forward, it will be because forward thinking people are telling new stories.

If you do not currently have a blog, you can set one up in less than ten minutes at blogger.com (Video tutorial here).
Scan through the eight topics to the left, selecting one, about which you would like to share your ideas. Write a blog entry with your insights about the topic or...
Click the plus (+) symbol to the right of the topic. This will cause a list of statements submited by others that were linked by the community to this topic. You initially see the most strongly linked statements. Click Show All to see all of the statements that were linked. This will produce a scrolling window that you can scroll through.
When you have finished your blog, include at the bottom of the article the tags assocated with the topics and statements you addressed. This will cause your blog to automatically be associated with that topic and/or statement, included in the final product.
Submit your blog article and view it. Then go to the following URL, substituting blogURL with the URL of your blog article.

http://technorati.com/ping/?url=blogURL

Thanks!

Phase 4

A Facility will be added that enables us to prioritize the action statements in order of importance and sequence. Comments will be collected.