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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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 [...]
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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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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.
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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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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 [...]
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21st Century Pedagogy Conference 2009
The “c” Generation
connect, communicate, collaborate, create
The conference today was an interesting experience. The session I presented went well . . . it was a compilation of the previous few blogs. The blog was simply there as a reference point for the Case Study presented about Belmore South Primary School.
Kim presented a really [...]
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ICT becomes embedded into a school culture when there is effective curriculum and instruction, ongoing professional development, authentic assessments and a culture that embraces the learning potential of all its members.
Everything technological seems to be synonymous with speed. The best advice possible is to take it slowly. When making critical technology decisions choose carefully the steps to [...]
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A place and space.
In most of our experiences it is a school, a classroom, a library for some a playing field.
In today’s interconnected and technology-driven world it can be virtual, online, remote; in short, it doesn’t have to be a place at all.
Another way of looking at it is as support systems which serve [...]
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