Educational Origami

Well the three days of the workshop leaders course are over and next on the agenda is heading home. The course has been very useful from several perspectives:

Networking – This has been a brilliant opportunity to mix and mingle with leading teachers from across Asiapac. The presence of and our close ties with the otehr [...]

Yesterdays sessions split into our program areas as well as the morning together. The first one and 1/2 days sessions were very insightful as one of tasks we undertook was tracing through all three programmes (PYP, MYP and DP). We looked at the progression between the different common aspects of the courses. In our groups [...]

One of the aspects that I have found most useful about this course so far is the emphasis on Adult education. One part we looked at today was some of the chatractoristics of adult learners. These are quite different in many ways to student learners. Here is my take on some of the:

Adults are self [...]

Well getting to the WSL (Workshop Leaders Course) was interesting. Singapore Airlines service was excellent, but before we even got on the plane we had an adventure. The steward gets on to the PA as we are all crowded into the lounge and announces….
“The flight has been delayed as the engineers have found a crack [...]

One of the main mediums we use for conveying information is the visual medium. Many of use are visual learners or multi-modal learners where one of our modes are visual. Many of use produce documents, websites, wikis or blogs but do we consider the principles of design.
This is a really good website that provides us [...]

Jamie from Digital Explorer left a comment on an earlier post that the resources available at Digital explorer for Google earth have been updated. Thanks for that. This is good materials and well worth using, they representa a considerable investment in time and resources.
The digital explorer website is well worth a visit and as I [...]

Digital Natives is a blog and wiki. The Blog is hosted out of harvard university – http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/
The sites are interesting and well structure. The wiki examines many of the issues we as educators face with our students and invites us to join and contribute.
Here are some of the areas of discussion:

Digital Identity
Digital Safety
Digital Privacy
Digital [...]

The tragedy in Darfur continues. Millions displaced, thousands  murdered and abused. While as individuals we can do little, we can educate our students. This is a resource published on the washington post’s website . Its well worth a look.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/interactives/chad/

Also useful are the layers within Google Earth
For those of use who have had a play with [...]

Clark Aldrich isn’t some one I knew about or had met before a quick twitter comment. The link interested me it was about interactivity and games. Clark in this blog post has outline a taxonomy of interactivity ranging from level 0 (children should be seen and not heard approach) to level 6 (The students are [...]

I have just published the updates to 21st Century Pedagogy and 21st Century Assessment on Edorigami.wikispaces.com
The feedback has really helped to shape these articles. Many thanks to all who posted comments or contacted me directly. Its very much appreciated

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