Posted in 21st Century Learning on Aug 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Reviewing NECC 2009, if you haven’t already watched, listened and learned check out www.istevision.org. It was a conference where just so much happened, so many professional lives were changed and the potential of technology was recognised as a positive not as something that needs to be harnessed and controlled.
Four weeks on and thoughts of NECC [...]
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Future Learning, ICT, Learning environment, new literacies, personalised learning, reading, ubiquitous on Jul 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Creativity, connective writing, new literacies, reading, social networking on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Learning environment, Uncategorized, professional learning communities, school culture on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Future Learning, Leadership, Learning environment, professional learning communities on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Creativity, Learning environment, personalised learning, risk taking on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Future Learning, ICT, Learning environment, Uncategorized, cyber safety, professional learning communities, school culture, social networking on Jun 30th, 2009 1 Comment »
Craig Bellamy
In recent times the line between public and private has become very blurred to the point of non existence. Young people, young teachers, students all use social networking spaces to air their thoughts, their feelings and their lives.
More and more I [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Wikis and learning, professional learning communities on Jun 29th, 2009 No Comments »
This is an amazing conference and it hasn’t even started yet. The pre-conference workshops are so comprehensive and across such a wide range of areas. Which one to choose?
I don’t know much about wiki’s so did that yesterday. Now I know a whole lot more. Still only really a beginner.
Edubloggercon was on as an unconference [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, authentic assessment, hyper literacy, new literacies, reading, risk taking on Apr 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Earlier in the year a friend flicked me an email with an article from The Chronicle of Higher Education attached. It was written by Mark Bauerlein and entitled Online Literacy is a Lesser Kind and it has provoked a great deal of thought and research on my part.
I do not necessarily agree with the writer’s conclusions; [...]
