How do we take measure of ICT integration or implementation? Its not something we can score on a scale of 1 to 10 or measure as achieving with excellence or just passing. The benchmarks for every school and every classroom are different.
In preparing our students for the 21st Century, we must prepare them for the [...]
Thanks for the brilliant comments and suggestions about teh 21st Century Teacher. I have played with the concept some more and made some changes.
To make it easier to change and update this I have posted it to the wiki.
http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Teacher
Thanks To Sheryl, Kim, David and Rod for their feedback, spell checking, suggestions and comments. Please don’t [...]
We have heard alot about the 21st Century Learner. We know that they are:
Collaborative
Adaptive
Information, media and technology savvy
Communicators
immediate and instant
require instant gratification
But what about the 21st Century Teacher, what are the charactoristics we would expect to see in a 21st Century Educator. We know they are student centric, wholistic, they are teaching about how to [...]
I read this article in the BBC’s Education section and it left me cold.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7371635.stm
Here is the opening lines….
“Teacher guilty of ‘incompetence‘
A teacher who failed to control disruptive pupils has been found guilty of professional incompetence.
Martin Reynish, who was held in “high esteem” by colleagues at Bryn Celynnog Comprehensive at Beddau, Rhondda Cynon Taf, is [...]
I have been catching up on my reading from the Nepal Adventure. On the inside of the front cover of Interface is an advertisement for PLP or Powerful Learning Practice Network available for New Zealand Schools. PLP is the product of two brilliant ICT innovators and education leaders from the US, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will [...]
I found this as a post from the 3 Billion blog. The post refers to a youth orientated trend report published by the Next Great Thing. Go to the site and download the paper. It makes for an interesting read.
The paper has a marketing focus but don’t let that deter you. There aren’t that many [...]
http://www.fullbooks.com/
How cool - this site allows you to access full versions of many many books. This site publishes the texts within the page rather than the Gutenberg projects download. You have to scroll down past the advertising at the top but after that is the text.
between this site and the Gutenberg project, we have [...]
This is a very interesting article published in the New Zealand Computerworld.
Essentially the article reads as follows The New South Wales Education departments has:
downgraded allvista operating systems to Windows XP
use open office instead of Microsoft Office
The selection of Open Office instead of MS office is interesting as Sun, who make open office’s big brother Star [...]
My current bed time reading is Tapscott and Williams Wikinomics. Its a book I am enjoying and finding enlightening. I’d recommend it.
One particular comment in the book struck a chord with me last night
“If an army marching in lockstep to tightly arranged military music is a metaphor for yesterday’s workplace, the workplace of the future [...]
I would like to share two video clips that have recently appeared in twitterverse.
The first…..
The catch line for this interesting project is
“three billion people under twenty-five. Now thats a lot of consumers”
The project is about the 3 billion people under 25. Its full of facts, ideas etc. Well worth grazing through. Watch the video at [...]
