Posted in 21st Century Learning on Aug 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
Reviewing NECC 2009, if you haven’t already watched, listened and learned check out www.istevision.org. It was a conference where just so much happened, so many professional lives were changed and the potential of technology was recognised as a positive not as something that needs to be harnessed and controlled.
Four weeks on and thoughts of NECC [...]
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, 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.
