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, 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 [...]
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, Future Learning, Leadership, Learning environment, professional learning communities on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
What an amazing site.
500 exhibitors with 50 new ones this year. It takes a day to walk and talk with even just a fraction of the exhibitors whose product is of interest.
The Conference Centre is vast here are some stats for NECC 2009 (courtesy ISTE Daily Leader).
10 000 particpants from 60 countries across the world.
62 [...]
