The Mavens:

• C.A. Bowers

• Bonnie Bracey

• Colleen Cordes

• Larry Cuban

• Hall Davidson

• Odvard Egil Dyrli

• Jane Healy

• Ian Jukes

• Daniel Kinnaman

• Cheryl Lemke

• Judy Lightfoot

• Ted McCain

• Jamie McKenzie

• Susan McLester

• Alan November

• Ted Nellen

• Jason Ohler

• Todd Oppenheimer

• Seymour Papert

• Bernajean Porter

• Neil Postman

• William Rukeyser

• Ferdi Serim

• Gary Stager

• Clifford Stoll

• Stephen Talbott

• Edward Tenner

• Don Tapscott

• David Thornburg

• Alan Warhaftig

• David Warlick

Ferdi Serim Links

 

Spinning Gold into Straw - http://www.education.ucr.edu/breilly/320/serim.pdf

This is a response to the "Fools Gold"report released by the Alliance for Childhood.

Ferdi Serim resources - http://www.tcpd.org/serim/serim.html

This Biography and set of presentation links is posted by the Thornburg Center for Professional Development.

Multimedia Schools Magazine - http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/

Ferdi is the editor of this magazine. Seek out his insightful editorials at: http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/MMStocs/dconnect.html

On-line Internet institute - http://oii.org/

Ferdi co-founded this organization with Bonnie Bracey. The OII provides the tools for educators and students to learn, interact and grow in ways necessary for success in the 21st century.

The Top Ten Reasons Why Teachers Use the Internet - http://www.songline.com/teachers/ferdi.html

A nice argument for why teachers log-on. The links help to prove the point.

Uncommon Sense: Educators Reinventing the Profession from the Inside Out - URL is too long to print!

Ferdi wrote this article,"to share the hard lessons and point to potentials forming the horizon". Clicking on the above link will download a PDF file of 500K conrtaining the article.<Edutopia - Spring 1999 (Vol 6, #2)>

Building Virtual Communities for Professional Development - http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/serim.html

A 1996 article on professional development Ferdi states, "Teachers must rise to the highest levels of individualized learning, in order to allow their students to reach similarly high standards, and online environments, for the first time in human history, make possible the types of mentorship that will be needed."

Not how, but why: Ferdi Serim on the Internet in the Classroom - http://www.4teachers.org/keynotes/serim/

Musician, teacher, systems analyst--he's been all three, and from his experiences, he has derived a holistic view of answers to the question: "Why is technology important in teaching and learning?"

Ferdi Serim's On-line Adventure - http://oii.org/ferdi/Ferdi.html

Ferdi's personal page from the OII. Hear Ferdi jam with Dizzy Gillespie! Cool.

 

Ferdi Serim Books*

NetLearning: Why teachers Use the Internet June 1996 O'Reilly & Associates; ISBN: 1565922018

 

*Book links lead you to