Posted in politics on Oct 30th, 2007 No Comments »
I promised I wouldn’t harp on about VIT, and I did attend a pretty good presentation on VIT a week or so ago, but this is the full text of an email I received today.
This is an
automated reply.
Please do
not respond to this email. Thank you for your recent application for renewal of
registration with [...]
Posted in e-learning, web 2.0 learning on Oct 29th, 2007 4 Comments »
I’m not one who argues for the abandonment of schools, or that technology will make some physical meetings of teachers and students obsolete. I’ve always described technology as enhancing existing interactions and while there’s no doubt that the existing configurations could be considerably improved I’ve always argued that schools provide social benefits beyond the academic. [...]
Posted in learning on Oct 27th, 2007 No Comments »
I tend to be a little skeptical sometimes about the ACER presentations, centered as they so often are around research, and not real life as it is lived. However, Geoff Masters presentation, Realising the promise of education in the 21st Century, was able to bridge that gap between research and practice.
Masters reiterated how well Australian [...]
Posted in online safety, web 2.0 learning on Oct 27th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve been trying to look at as many presentations as I can from the K12 Online Conference currently underway, and have been enjoying them a lot. I posted earlier about the New Imagery Conference I attended earlier this month, but this online conference also has some great presentations, more focused on technology generally. Each [...]
Posted in curriculum, leadership on Oct 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Well, it’s been a week back at work since the Conference and I’ve (nearly) cleared the email deluge and back-up of tasks to the extent that I can actually think about the sessions I saw and what might come of them. I’ll try to write about some of them over the next few days.
The first [...]
Posted in curriculum, learning, teaching on Oct 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
Late in October I presented at the annual Ithaka Conference. The Ithaka Project has been going for about five years and involves nine or so schools in teacher reflection and collaboration. The presentation was a dialogue between Deane Blackner, Julie Landvogt and myself on a number of key questions relating to the central concern: [...]
