Down in Melbourne conference buzzing about lots of innovation and ideas. iPads,ebooks and learning spaces have been the big ticket items of today. A student forum truly bout home that student do not want to carry heavy books when they can have a tablet pc with all their books on the one device. Think book sellers have a big task over the next few years check out Al Gore’s new iPad app Our Choice totally interactive and engaging. The way ahead seems to be “mashup” of textbooks. This is where teachers and students can collaboratively construct using visual resources such as YouTube, online links, teaching chapters and apps.
Category Archives: ICT and learning
Developing a philosophy
So last night I watched some Ken Robinson again – always challenging and inspiring. I also watched some Phil Beadle – a former UK Teacher of the year and always provocative. I’ve also started revisiting my current units of work from a hyper critical standpoint – this is proving to be supbering.
On the ICT front I’ve been experimenting with onenote and trying to get my head around twitter and blogging – this blog in particular. I’m not sure I’ve entirely worked it out yet so when I post this I may crash the whole thing……..Luddite’s Luck I’ve taken to calling it!
One week out
So…we’re one week out from the QLD conference – three days discussing ICT in education with a cohort of people who will probably all know more about this than I do. I’m spending this week (when I’m not doing exams and reports) trying to distil my educational philosophy down to a few unshakeable core beliefs that I can hold on to in the deluge of new information that will come my way. So……here goes.
Space for Conference Reflection
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Here we will be looking at waya fof sharing the learning that goes on at conferences, PL days etc – ideas, snippets, anything you may wish to share with the Joeys community.