Posted in 21st Century Learning, Creativity, ICT, Learning environment, Uncategorized, hyper literacy, new literacies, personalised learning, reading, school culture, social networking, ubiquitous on Jul 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
NECC 2009 Birds of a feather gathered around the common cause of iphones and the exploration of educational uses of APPs and more.
What I learned . . .
kids want to be online all the time and given the choice of an ordinary handheld and an iphone or ipod the majority will choose the iproduct
many [...]
Read Full Post »
On Monday morning we went to the NECC 2009 Exhibitor’s Hall. It was huge, vast, expansive . . . so American.
We were on a mission to get a Promethean and SMART t-shirt.
They made it so hard fill in forms, show a magazine bit of a hassle really!!!! Never did get the SMART shirt probably a [...]
Read Full Post »
We had intended to walk from dinner to the hotel in the cool of the evening. The evening turned out to be a hot, wet and stormy night in Washington DC. After dinner we caught a cab.
We were chattering away in the back about the Conference and things we’d been doing.
The Cabbie was a middle [...]
Read Full Post »
Human impulse is to write (21st Century Writing).
Kathleen Blake Yancey believes writing has been affected by the context of history from 1940’s to present
war and distance created need for people to write letters
school writing disciplined and punishment oriented
freedom of graffitti writing, letters of freedom of gaol
writing process, moves that lead to final product, process became [...]
Read Full Post »
Walking through the Exhibit Hall the other day we met these two teachers from Chicago. They were really excited because the girl on the right had just won a Promethean Classroom.
She was over the moon! She was so enthusiastic about winning Promethean because she was aware of the company’s all encompassing philosophy of sharing knowledge [...]
Read Full Post »
What an amazing site.
500 exhibitors with 50 new ones this year. It takes a day to walk and talk with even just a fraction of the exhibitors whose product is of interest.
The Conference Centre is vast here are some stats for NECC 2009 (courtesy ISTE Daily Leader).
10 000 particpants from 60 countries across the world.
62 [...]
Read Full Post »
Gladwell’s keynote addressed THREE BIG IDEAS he wanted all attending NECC 2009 to understand it is important for students and teachers to understand them.
1. WORK HARD
Put in the effort and success will come your way.
2. RESILIENCE / PERSEVERANCE
It’s okay to make mistakes so long as you learn from them.
Trying harder brings greater reward and [...]
Read Full Post »
