Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Yesterday we held parent teacher interviews in the afternoon and while I was walking around on yard duty I spotted these boys sitting under some playground equipment connected to our wireless network via their i phones or newly leased laptops from school.
What intrigued me was that it was 20 minutes after ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2012
I've just finished reading the authorised biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. I bought the book while travelling to the States in June of this year where everyone seemed to be reading it and finally made the time while on holidays to finish this "warts and all" account of his ...
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Monday, August 13th, 2012
Context of this post:
This morning I'm teaching a group of year 5/6 students. The WALT (We are learning to...) is join an online discussion via a blog and make a comment.
Post:
An overseas friend made a light-hearted jib about the Aussies performance in these Olympics which got me to thinking is ...
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
Last week as part of Education Week we held our second parent and teacher forum on cyber safety. The presenter for this session was Susan McLean.
We had 50 parents attend Susan's presentation and this combined with the first cyber safety session earlier in the term means about 20% of our ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2012
Last year I used my iphone whilst overseas to call and text home. Well you can imagine the bill (I had data roaming on for a little while). Once bitten we were determined not to have that again so this time we bought a phone in the US and a ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
This is just a small post on what I love and find frustrtaing using the ipad as a work tool overseas. Yesterday we visited a school in Cambridge (John Tobin) and I took some photos. The ipad was great (compact, user friendly).
I went back to the hotel and began ...
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
Some times you just need a laugh and this appealled to me. Thanks to Greg Carroll for this one.
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Monday, July 11th, 2011
Last month I was fortunate to hear Mark Treadwell [pictured above] speak to a group of aspirant leaders I am mentoring. He had some I think important things to say about learning and I think leadership.
He began the morning making the case for a new paradigm shift for learning. He quoted the ...
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
This book takes a serious historical and international look at the "digital pencil" movement to equip every student with a computing device with wireless connection. Using an ecological perspective as an overarching framework, and drawing on their own studies and available literature that illuminate the issues related to one-to-one computing, ...
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Monday, August 30th, 2010
Yong Zhao a University Distinguished Professor at the College of Education at Michigan State University and international consultant to many governments talks here about the dangers of the narrow use of national test scores to define what students need.
I heard him speak recently at our Statewide forum on the use ...
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