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This presentation, simply entitled Pay Attention, was created by Darren Draper in an effort to motivate teachers to think about 21st Century Digital learning and its implications in their classrooms for their students.

SMH 20th August 2008
Have a read of this interesting assessment development in an Australian School, read the 71 comments as well, they tell us a lot about how far out of touch some people are. Look for the Betchblog link in my blogroll because Chris teaches at this school and gives another insight into mlearning.

EdublogsTv will enable me to share learning videos with staff and students at school, I hope.

NOT one of my Year 7 to 11 students use or had heard of Twitter as of last week. I can now show them this introductory video. (edoblogsTV coding glitches still to be sorted, It appears you can only embed ONE edublogsTV video at a time as soon as i add the next video, the video i wanted to show you about twitter disappears)

I’ll post the direct twitter link here until the coding issue is sorted out.

Also Suzie Boss’s interesting article ‘Twittering not Frittering’ is worth a look to see if this 2006 free app can be used as a valuable PD tool. I’m still not convinced, ya gotta do better Suzie. HELP.

… using Twitter for professional development is a good model for twenty-first-century learning. He’s found it especially useful for learning how to integrate podcasting, blogs, wikis, and other tools in his classroom.

And if he runs into a challenge, he knows right where to turn for help. “I can watch and learn from people who jump out and try things early,” he says. “Once I gather information from observing, then I’m ready to apply it myself in my situation. Watch, observe, apply. It’s been great.”

I want you to convince me that I should sign up and become a twatterer, if thats the past tense of twitterer?

Remember I am a non mphone owing luddite who is yet to send his first sms, so you better have good reasons if the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to buy me a new mdevice as a birthday present next week. How have you used twitter for learning? I want a new phone, do your best.