Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
This 5 minute clip is useful for educators either as individuals or in teams in schools to talk through and using technology to so new things in new ways. It challenged me - do we have classrooms or learning communities [go outside the 4 walls]? These are not mutually exclusive I don't think ...
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Today the Prime Minister of Austalia, Hon Kevin Rudd delivered a speech at the National Press Club on the education revolution. I received a transcript of the speech which for me had several highlights:
While Australian schools stand up reasonably well in international comparisons, our competitors are quickly catching up. A ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
I have just stumbled upon Chris Lott's blog which has provided some sage like words to explain why I share my thoughts on a blog and .... the words were written 500 years ago by Michel Montaigne.
[An account of a trivial event] would be rather pointless were it not for the ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I came across the short 6 minute clip which shows about 50 online virtual world games. It has some excellent quotes and I am sure teenagers will recognise many of these worlds. I am just sharing at this stage.
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
I have just finished reading Chris Betcher's post on PLC in Sydney where year 9 girls sitting an English test were able to use a phone to search the Internet for an answer as long as they quoted the source. The papers were busy calling this cheating rather than asking the question what's ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Julia Gillard is reported to have said this month that she was blown away by the works and ideas of Joel Klein, the former Assistant Attorney General of the United States - anti trust division. Mr Klein has been the Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education for ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Today I have asked to speak to our senior students about how we might better use the new spaces in our building to enhance our learning, friendships and online presence, the building is rich in access to digital technologies.
When using different spaces for learning and gradually releasing the responsibility for the ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
At this weeks staff meeting Sarah, the assistant principal and I talked about the weeks walkthroughs posing some questions in particular the above question - is consistency between classrooms sameness or mindfulness? We used a fish bowl strategy to share our thoughts where Sarah and I have a partly scripted dialogue surrounded by the staff. I used an ...
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Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
During the week I was talking to Michael Ymer, our resident maths educator, who coaches teachers on maths instruction. He was describing a rich maths task he had set years 5/6 students during a model lesson and the various exit points he had set to differentiate the challenge for students. The challenging ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
I came across this mainly US oriented list of the best 100 youtube videos for teachers. There are some worth a look.
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