Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2009 No Comments »
What does it mean to be a reader or even a literate person in the 21st century? What challenges face teachers as they explore the complexities of new literacies in literacy instruction? What role does the learner have to play in developing his or her literacy skills?
In working with students from diverse backgrounds, students who [...]
Posted in Essential Learnings, Uncategorized, reading on Oct 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Our students read, they are taught to read using the Four Resources. They are read to, they discuss books, the storyline, the characters, the structures, the language used. They are scaffolded through modelled, guided and independent stages of learning.
They write extremely well!!! We provide them with scaffolding, experiences and the opportunity to play with words [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 Uncategorized on Mar 20th, 2009 3 Comments »
Sitting listening to people question Will Richardson’s presentation on Network Literacy I just had to say it.
When we understand that it is the quality teacher and the quality learning environment that is important not the technology then it might be that we move on and get over the hurdles people continually put in the way [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, ICT, Leadership, Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Time ran out at the Conference yesterday before comment could be made on this component of making sure we prepare and provide for our students as citizens of the 21st Century.
As a school leader with well in excess of 10 years experience it is obvious the role of the school leader is becoming more and [...]
Posted in Blogs, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Uncategorized, personalised learning, risk taking on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Uncategorized, authentic assessment, personalised learning on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Essential Learnings, Future Learning, ICT, Leadership, Uncategorized, professional learning communities on Mar 10th, 2009 No Comments »
The Learning teams in the school are teams in which members
collectively pursue professional knowledge and skills and take on shared responsibility for the success of all students.
engage in the reflective practice, collegial inquiry, collaborative work, and continuous innovation on which 21st century learning environments thrive
enable teachers to refine their knowledge and skills in [...]
