Along with a group of teachers from my school, I am heading off to the National IWB Conference in Sydney in late August. Despite having used one in my classroom since 2005 and being one of the prime movers in getting them installed in our school, my opinion on their effectiveness waxes and wanes constantly. [...]
Monthly Archive for July, 2009
If we want our students to understand why certain groups of people from around the world chose to leave their home and end up in Adelaide (my students’ home town) , then an overall sense of modern world history is needed to gain that understanding. This becomes a classic example of how skills and knowledge [...]
Just a quick reflection on a tuning in activity I did with the class this afternoon. We’re starting a new Inquiry unit titled “Why Is The World Coming To Adelaide?” which has a focus on examining the impact multicultualism has had on this city over time. So, the starting point is to help define “the [...]
It’s my birthday today. I’m 43. You’d think that I could make up my own mind about things by now but I’m as easily influenced as I ever was. Except now my influences seep in through digital connection as much as face to face. I went down and upgraded my mobile phone today at the [...]
I’ve been lurking around some excellent blog posts and catching some mind challenging tweets of late. This little beauty from Will Richardson is a typical thoughtful piece of writing but it is the quality of the comments that had me enjoying the to and fro of the topic. The conversation is clear, concise and insightful [...]
(Starts with foreboding music) “Spoon feed me” – that’s the expectations of the teachers who are on holidays. The Assessment villians – no one knows how to assess technology, exams and numbers don’t tell a kid what they have learnt , grades are good for politicians, kids are good at playing school. Got to ask [...]
I had great plans to be a switched on, connected learner today at our local CEGSA09 conference. But I’m not sure where my head is at because I struggled to listen to either of the keynotes, ran most of my laptop juice out stuffing around with the wireless at the venue and skipped two sessions [...]
Jeff Utecht via Stephen Downes says: It was a good discussion that talked about how the conversation is changing. That at a point in time we use to actually take time to read and leave comments on blog posts. Now we read, and retweet blog posts. We talked about how Twitter is the new aggregator [...]
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