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 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 ICT, risk taking, social networking on Jul 2nd, 2009 2 Comments »
On Monday morning we went to the NECC 2009 Exhibitor’s Hall. It was huge, vast, expansive . . . so American.
We were on a mission to get a Promethean and SMART t-shirt.
They made it so hard fill in forms, show a magazine bit of a hassle really!!!! Never did get the SMART shirt probably a [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learning, Future Learning, ICT, Learning environment, new literacies, personalised learning, reading, ubiquitous on Jul 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
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 [...]
