One of my takeaway moments from Mark Treadwell’s day earlier this week is the point that we (teachers and the curriculum we are employed to deliver) often expect students to take on concepts and skills that they are not developmentally ready for. We are so focussed on doing more sooner that whether the kids are [...]
Monthly Archive for February, 2009
Back in 1999, started to look at concept of Paradigm Shift ; last macro paradigm shift was 500 years ago but we are at the start of a new macro paradigm shift. Mark works mainly with NZ, Ireland and Australia. In 1998, schools were struggling to put technology in but it didn’t really make any [...]
The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd has decided that in this time of financial uncertainty that stimulus money should be spent – and spent rather quickly. Although I’m not sure that improving schools was not the motivation, no one I know is complaining that we are the beneficiaries of some major spending for … well, [...]
Although I didn’t make the effort to blog about this last year, going to an all day event with Mark Treadwell (sponsored by ACEL) was an excellent learning opportunity. Mark describes himself as a travelling scholar and his session focussed on explaining much of the research and concepts of his book “Whatever!” retitled to “School [...]
At the start of a new school year I like to recall a key phrase my friend and team teaching partner of eight years, Lindsay used to say as we got our middle school programs up and running. “Make haste slowly”, was his reminder that in a system that annually reconfigures and juggles pre-adolescent kids [...]
Social media has dramatically improved how we report and document devastating events like the weekend’s Victorian bushfires. But it still doesn’t reduce the tragedy, the destruction or human’s ability to control the most devastating element of all. Fires have raged across the Australian continent for eons – Aboriginal people knew that fire was part of [...]
USB drives Thumbdrives USB sticks Jumpdrives USB keys Flashdrives These handy devices have become an indispensable tool for students at my school and until now the teachers have relied on the willingness of students to bring their own USB drives to and from the classroom to complete much of the digital work set in assignments. [...]
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