Sep 13 2009
Next PD at our place, we’ll all learn the lyrics.
Song by Kevin Honeycutt from ESSDACK.
Video directed/edited by Shawn Gormley.
Over at innovate2engage, the question Yes elearning DOES suck, but for how long? is probably closer to the real issue, pedagogical change.
Sep 08 2009
One thing I’ve noticed more lately? I like fun when I learn. A little less stuffiness, a lot more participation and heaps more trust. So do my kids.
With massive apologies to Banjo Patterson ( love your work AB) DER’s frisky colt, Hi Ho Netbook, is currently bolting through 800 plus statewide year9 paddocks, as we speak.
“There is movement at work stations, for MSword has passed around, DER laptops of No Regret have caused BIG stirs”.
Lets hope this is what is happening in learning spaces across NSW.
The following slideshare message is now not new, but the crisp simple design communicates an important message effectively.
The days of genuine “yeah buts” or “TTWWADI” at places of learning are strictly numbered. A massive thumbs up to that.
I trust we’ll harness this opportunity and hang on for the ride. Whether or not we are in total control is irrelevant, it’s the moving that is critical. We need to experiment, have more fun, jump in and celebrate our netbook mistakes and achievements.
Now tech at one level in NSW is nearing ubiquity, we can start dismantling the rhetoric & excuses a small, but often influential, minority of ”teachers” have cowered behind for far too long.
“The Laptops from Rudd Ree’s River, soon a household word today,
And the learners told the stories of their ride”
Ah, I can see the movie now. Action!
Also view Fisch/McCleods “Social Media is not a Fad” (especially if you are yet to see the 2007 original “Did you know”?) and Xplanes “Imagine Leadership”, both useful conversation starters.
Aug 27 2009
With DER NSW laptops arriving, it’s time to ponder a few learning thought provokers.
In Edutopia’s 10 minute video, Henry Jenkins succinctly raises some of the contemporary learning discussions still needed by DETs & in schools. Shiny baubles do not a revolution make.
Amongst many points Henry asks learners to consider; (my italics)
Edutopia, “What Works in Public Education” has more on their Digital Generation project.
Whilst in other news, Scott McLeod comments at Dangerously Irrelevant “Can’t wait to see who has a leg up in a decade or two.”
That may ultimately be a crucial assessment litmus for 1:1 etal ICT.
But thats way too long, and damaging, to wait. Especially if the baubles of now become more of what ICT has been.
What is your “new” first priority in regard to fundamentally shifting learning ?
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