Posted in politics, teacher-bashing, teaching on Sep 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
Amusing, but sad article in today’s AGE from David Campbell which patiently unravels just what we are paying our best teachers in terms of per student per hour. The answer? About $3.27 if you DON’T count weekend work, holiday work, lunchtime work and the rest of the reality of the job. Forget performance pay; how [...]
Posted in conferences on Sep 26th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m not usually that keen on online conferences. I like the show-bags, the bad coffee and the chance to meet new people. However, the k12 online conference last year had some fantastic resources and it looks like being that way again. I’m going to try to get more involved this time round. You can read [...]
Posted in wikis on Sep 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
The Australian today published an article sourced from The Independent called ‘The end of email; discover new ways to stay in touch’, which focuses on new communication modes, particularly the use of collaborative websites like wikis or google documents to facilitate effective team work.
The article gives some interesting examples of companies that have moved [...]
Posted in tools and gadgets on Sep 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
I promise this will the last post this year on VIT, but I couldn’t resist when TWO of my educational annoyances: VIT AND IWBs came together in an unholy alliance on the cover of the VIT newsletter iteach this week! It was like they were taunting me!
I know that the audience was a large and [...]
Posted in education-news, higher ed, politics on Sep 19th, 2007 No Comments »
From the AGE today:
AUSTRALIA was the only developed country to cut public spending on tertiary education in the decade to 2004, according to a new world comparison.
The funding reduction — down 4 per cent compared with an average OECD rise of 49 per cent — resulted in private spending on higher education, including students’ tuition [...]
Posted in curriculum, learning on Sep 18th, 2007 2 Comments »
Had an interesting meeting today with two co-presenters from a forthcoming education conference coming up in October. I’ve been working on what’s called the Ithaka Project for a couple of years now and have enjoyed the focus on reflecting on teaching practice. The project involves teachers from more than half a dozen Melbourne schools and [...]
