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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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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