Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on Dec 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
To develop such a curriculum is neither difficult nor time consumming. The role of the teacher is of utmost importance; not as the fount of knowledge but as the listener, the guide, the facilitator, the skills’ expert.
It is the teacher’s role to focus on students learning how to learn. Teachers have many skills that enable us to achieve [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
The uncertainty that this question conjures in me, a settled mature adult, is deep. How then can we expect our students and children to know what the future holds given the exponential rate of change we are experiencing in the field of information. The 19th and 20th Century core values are being clutched at by [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on Oct 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Profound words from George Brown so many years ago. This is the second day of the ACEL Conference 2007. It was a treat to listen to Peter Senge this morning. His message was basically “learning is not teaching” and as educators we need to find a way to reach kids and meet them in their [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Future Learning, Game Authoring, Games and Literacy, ICT, Leadership, Wikis and learning, risk taking on Oct 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Last week I had the pleasure to witness seven Stage 3 students from our school demonstrate their skills at making games to an audience of 80 teachers at the NSW Department of Education and Training’s Connected Learning Conference last week.
Three of the students presenting at the Conference had formal training in how to use Gamemaker at [...]
Posted in Blogroll, DS Lites, Future Learning, Game Authoring, Games and Literacy, ICT, risk taking on Jun 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
While in Scotland, more precisely Dundee. I had the pleasure of visiting Derek Robertson in LTS Consolarium. My colleague Kim and I had an amazing time engaging with hardware and software that appeared to have great potential in the classroom.
LTS were running a trial using the Brain Training Program and Derek reported that all students [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Game Authoring, Games and Literacy, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on May 22nd, 2007 3 Comments »
While it is really good to be living in the peace and relative freedom that exists in this large land of ours, Australia, it has enormous drawbacks and detractors.
Our country is so large, our population so small and so isolated. To engage in dialogue with educators who have similar views and ideals is nigh on impossible. [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on May 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
In March I was just beginning to get a roll on with writing my Blog. Then it happened we were one teacher down and a class out of control. (I could take the mickey out of myself and say “Super Principal to the rescue”) I had to go into a classroom and shock horror actually [...]
Posted in Blogroll, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Wikis and learning, risk taking on May 7th, 2007 1 Comment »
Getting the balance right is not really about curriculum. That is far too simple an explanation for the issue that is confronting all levels of educators from all around the world in the 21st Century. It is about getting the working relationship between students and teachers in balance. Recognising there is a time to be [...]
Posted in Game Authoring, ICT on Mar 7th, 2007 2 Comments »
MIT has been at the forefront of Technology Innovation for a long time now. Papert being the guru. Henry Jenkins and a plethora of game makers, educational technology tools, Logo, Robotics, AI . . . need I go on.
Trawling through blogs as one does when one has time I noted Derek Robertson mentioned a new [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Future Learning, Game Authoring, Games and Literacy, ICT, Leadership, risk taking on Mar 4th, 2007 1 Comment »
A cluster of 5 schools plus assorted experts and associates, are about to embark upon a project revolving around students making computer games of various sorts. I was reading John Connell’s BLOG and he asked the question when did “I” appear in the word project. He has caused me to reflect upon how we might [...]
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