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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Creativity, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, connective writing, hyper literacy, new literacies, reading, social networking, ubiquitous on Apr 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Just a few thoughts after listening to Kathleen Blake Yancey, reading Writing in the 21st Century and Will Richardson’s commentary.
The concept of connective writing is not about the act of publishing it is what happens before and after publication.
Reading and writing now, are not what they were.
They were:
Reading to inform, teach and indoctrinate.
Writing was for the [...]
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Moshi Monsters has taken our school by storm.
The program was first introduced , in Beta form, by Anna Rossvoll, of the GLOW team in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Driving across the UK gives plenty of time for thinking and discussion and that is where this idea evolved.
This little program seemed as if it might be the answer to [...]
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Smell the Roses was a presentation made by Kim and I at the Network Literacy Conference. This conference featured the well known American educator and exponent of Web 2.0, Will Richardson.
Our presentation was his support act. We planned it using and a new tool called Prezi.
Prezi is an interactive tool which allows for great flexibility of presentation. Click [...]
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Back in the classroom again but this time it is a luxury … an aid to set up the Macbooks and working alongside Kim.
We have a presentation to get together before Friday… with a new class.
Having the class for the first 45 mins of the day I couldn’t resist doing a bit of research. It [...]
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