See this post at Cathy Mere's Reflect and Refine for what's going on with this summer's #cyberPD. She's also hosting the first conversation of chapters one and two and linking up! Today, join us here! Cathy's friends, Laura Komos (Our Camp Read-a-Lot), Jill Fisch (My Primary Passion) are our two other hosts. Join in, or at least visit to see what others think of this book, Who Owns The Learning, by Alan November.A thread that appears to be running through the book is the idea that this proposal, the Digital Learning Farm, is based on the idea that in the past, kids who lived on farms had much more authentic work to do with their chores. And they had to learn the why and how of those chores at least some of the time in order to be effective in their daily lives as contributing members of the family. They couldn't decide to skip their 'homework' because lives surely depended upon it, the animals they fed, the plants cared for, etc. He also sites the 'teacher's helper' role of students in one room schoolhouses, and states "The power of purpose and meaningful contribution has been missing from our classrooms and our youth culture for some time."