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, 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, 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; [...]
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Blogs, Future Learning, personalised learning, social networking on Apr 15th, 2009 No Comments »
MacArthur Foundation Research in 2008
Speak Up 2008 available 24 March
We are becoming Nodes around interest groups on line.
Children are learners and teachers.
Lines are blurrring between who is the teacher and who is the learner.
According to context the role of learner is fluid.
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Creativity, Future Learning, ICT, risk taking on Mar 16th, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, personalised learning on Mar 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Have you thought of getting the kids to help the School Tech person. Tech comes naturally to many of our students.
Let’s face it . . . for most of us it is a struggle.
At the beginning of the week Kim was lamenting being a techno moron. Deon and I were chatting when I was helping [...]
