Posted in podcasting on Aug 28th, 2006 3 Comments »
The Curriculum Corporation
13th Annual Conference in Adelaide, August 14th and 15: The Vision Splendid: ICT Research, Pedagogy, Implementation for schools
This podcast talks about some of the sessions I attended, particularly:
Effective integration of dynamic representations and collaboration to enhance mathematics and science learning by Jeremy Roschelle, Director of the Centre for Technology in Learning at SRI [...]
Posted in education-news on Aug 28th, 2006 No Comments »
This from The AGE today:
New teachers have lower standards of literacy and numeracy thanthose who entered teaching 20 years ago, a new study has found. The Australian National University research combined six surveys measuring the literacy and numeracy of 14-year-old school students.
The surveys then followed the same people into their mid and late 20s as [...]
Posted in blogging, e-learning, podcasting on Aug 25th, 2006 No Comments »
The EdTechTalk guys are on holidays and re-releasing some of their earlier podcasts to fill in the silence. I missed some of these early shows and recommend this one: 21st Century Learning #2, originally released in June, which talks about some of the practical considerations and hazards in setting up blogging in schools. We’re talking [...]
Posted in e-learning, learning on Aug 24th, 2006 No Comments »
Looking through the list of Australian edubloggers on their wiki, stumbled upon Graham Wegner’s edublog on Teaching Generation Z, which I’ve immediately added to my bloglines subscriptions. I liked the focus on web 2.0 learning and the lively engagement with the ideas, that fact that it’s Australian as well as the humour, such as Graham’s [...]
Posted in e-learning on Aug 24th, 2006 3 Comments »
Just had a quick look at the Squidoo ‘lenses’ to see what was emerging out there, in terms of learning sites. There are some there, such as this one on educating the new generation, but I have my doubts about the one long page metaphor of Squidoo. Perhaps a better use of this, in schools, [...]
Posted in e-learning on Aug 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
This was new one to me: Squidoo, a web 2.0 site for creating a focused ‘lens’ for one topic by the looks of it. Not the journal style of a blog, not the collaborative thingy of a wiki. Another tool I can immediately see 10 uses for in classrooms:
Squidoo: SKWID-OO, n. v., adj., [...]
