Nov 08 2009
#Learnover 2010
Learnover 2010 promises to be my type of professional learning.
Active student voice, open, global, tech requirements even I could muster from home and learner centred.
Stephen Heppell does stuff, good real stuff, for learning.
Learnover is a case in point. This was the recent trial.
He makes me think “gee that was a simple idea with plenty of substance”. I like that.
This 24 hour, 48 school, global twitcam hookup will allow kids 30 minutes to ask, answer, see and record the diversity of learning from the 4 dozen participating schools. Cool idea? Yep, absolutely.
#Learnover is a test, it promises to be slighty messy and a fancy video conference facility may add more glitz and gloss.
But you know what?
This is not even remotely about the technology.
Learnover is about kids sharing the place they spend a quarter of each day.
Kids (hopefully) making independent decisions about what excites, motivates, thrills and makes them feel proud in THEIR schools. Hands off teachers and admin. It’s not the local polly visiting, this time. Kids will get the global show and tell mojo happening, so guide them only seniors, don’t lock it up with your control stamp.
Unfortunately, at our place we’ll get to watch the replayed recorded version, sorry kids.
Another live, interactive, social media, simple, rich, engaging, tech easy learning opportunity passes us by.
The ”Appropriate applications, services and information” that is DET intranet won’t allow such things as #Learnover2010, into our classrooms, yet. Times they are a changin’, just not in some schools at a sufficiently appropriate pace.
If this opportunity is not already booked out, contact Mission Control at heppell.net.
Learnover2010 says you may want to rehearse your tour, although perhaps not quite like this one. Love it.
