Posted in teaching strategies, web 2.0 learning on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
I was pointed to an interesting post this week, an interview with award winning primary school teacher, Tim Thompson, on how he uses technology such as podcasts, blogs and video in his classroom. I liked the following observation particularly; a key thing for teachers I think, is to continue to play with these technologies. And [...]
Posted in software, tablet_pcs, teaching strategies, tools and gadgets on Jan 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
An interesting non-edublog post from a high school maths teacher talking about technology, productivity and what software schools should be supporting teachers with. There are a lot of comments and suggestions at the end of the post too. The post describes the multi-pronged problem as:
I have found it increasingly annoying to hear from on high [...]
Posted in education-news, politics, teaching, teaching strategies on Jun 12th, 2007 2 Comments »
The ABC reports today that the Federal Government plans to push ahead with a trial of performance pay for teachers despite a lack of evidence that it will actually work (in improving learning) and with a woeful lack of understanding of the complexities involved. My fear is that the Federal Opposition will play tweedle-dum and [...]
Posted in learning environments, teaching, teaching strategies, web 2.0 learning on Jun 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
A teacher I met at the ICTEV Conference put me on to this video from TeacherTube. Isn’t that the best thing about those conferences?
Download: Posted by marottam at TeacherTube.com.
They say: I attended a BLC06 conference last summer and keynote Marco Torres, was a keynote. In one of his smaller sessions he showed [...]
Posted in teaching strategies, web 2.0 learning on Mar 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
You’ve gotta like this site. Great diagram, and nice use of the pbwiki interface. TPCK (Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge) argues:
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK) attempts to capture some of the essential qualities of knowledge required by teachers for technology integration in their teaching, while addressing the complex, multifaceted and situated nature of teacher knowledge. [...]
Posted in leadership, teaching strategies on Mar 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Not always earth-shattering in it’s revelations but it’s good to see an attempt to sum up some of the research based knowledge in the recent document from the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership called, Teaching and Leading for Quality Australian Schools. The full document is 55 pages and contains findings like:
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