Oct 23 2008
“ICT business outlook in NSW Public Education Symposium”
Today’s talk fest hosted by AIIA and attended by some of DET NSW head honchos might have been fascinating. I wouldn’t know, I was busy learning elsewhere.
But according to ZDNet who did attend, Stephen Wilson DET’s chief info guru, said all NSW public school students will not only get gmail accounts this month BUT
the department (DETNSW) plans to equip students with web 2.0 tools, such as wikis, blogs, and beyond the six gigabytes of storage that comes with Gmail, a further four gigabytes of storage hosted by the department.
This is hopefully the ebackpack, tools and cloud computing update that Tim Anderson hinted at back in April. As Big Kev used to say,”I’m Excited”.
This may mean NSW public school students can enter the read/write world in some sort of controlled DET acceptable filtered safe house.
I sincerely hope these announcments really are an example of progress with genuine 21st century ‘connected learning’ for students.
It won’t be beneficial to genuine advances in learning if all this announcement means is a portal/walled garden version where students can only communicate with other password protected DET NSW student’s. We shall see.
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G’day ‘Charger’
Since you write (excitedly) on web 2.0 and grand poobahs deciding it’s the way to go (oh d’er … ), I’d be interested in your take on the potential of W2.0 on equity I spat out the other day at
http://human.edublogs.org/2008/11/04/spider-20/
I am finding that lots of this W2.0 debate is about flowery edu-psych notions of ‘learning’ OR the hardware & software needed but I reckon W2.0’s biggest potential lies in addressing some of the things you and I are clearly passionate about (yes, I got your tweet about the beer tasting good
)
Keep up the good work!
Tomaz
http://human.edublogs.org