Archive for January, 2011
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
I was reading What Ed Said blog and this post struck a cord with me. Next week during the first 3 days of school, which are pupil free for teacher professional development, my only session with the staff has a little of this theme; "What's important to do during the ...
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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
Having just completed a course at University I have some experience in the way universities use technology for learning. Most of my notes were online, the bulk of the articles I used in my research came from online journals where it was easy to search, download the article and reference into ...
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2011
Thanks to John Connell for this clip which I think has wider implications for all those working with our youth - not just parents with babies. I think this experiment along with a few others like the little Albert Experiment were banned some time ago.
In the process of getting to know ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
I stumbled on this clip from Scott Mcleaod's blog to a movie that touches on an extreme, that if normalised in schools would spell disaster for a generation of students. The pressure to perform on tests - to get high grades - is real - its not the same as ...
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
For the past few weeks we have been witnessing the most devastating floods in Australian history. The areas most affected are in Queensland and more recently in Victoria. The newspapers have been running special reports each day for the past 3 weeks and the TV news and current affairs programs have been recording various ...
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