teaching and learning

I wished I’d had these axioms on hand a couple of weeks ago when I was in a meeting looking at our strategic directions for technology. From Will Richardson’s blog, they’re are simple and powerful statements of future directions:
1) Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members
2) Our schools must be about [...]

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The k-12 Online Conference I blogged about back in May has just begun, with an initial presentation by Dr Stephen Heppell already online.  Details of his pre-conference keynote ‘“It Simply Isn’t the 20th Century Any More Is It?: So Why Would We Teach as Though It Was?” are available HERE and the full program for [...]

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I took this photo this morning, on the way to breakfast. It seems like ages ago already. When I got back to town I called in to school briefly, dropped off some stuff and picked up some other stuff and remembered again about traffic and all that. Lorne already seems a long way away.
Three days [...]

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Mark Whittard (Toshiba Information Systems) opened up Expanding Horizons on the last morning.
It’s hard for a hardware manufacturer to have something meaningful to say about education; even Apple struggle with that. And Mark Whittard mentioned as much when he began his keynote.
We got a potted history of Toshiba and their history (130 years!) and [...]

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Matt Esterman’s presentation ‘Delicious Blogs and Wikis: Using Web 2.0 technologies to enhance Student Centred Learning (SCL)’ followed on nicely from the keynote after lunch about the changing world of the learner tools.
It was based around a number of tools: edublogs, delicious, wikispaces, some of my favourites in the web 2.0 world currently. It was [...]

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learning to change
A powerful video that was part of Sherryl’s presentation at Expanding Learning Horizons 2008.

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