Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Translated into Spanish – Claudia Uribe de Piedrahita, the Director of Eduteka has organised the translation in Spanish – http://www.eduteka.org/TaxonomiaBloomDigital.php
I feel incredibly honoured and I really hope this will be of assistance to teachers and learners. Further resources and material will be added as they become available.
I have uploaded the PDF version [...]
A handful of the best is one of the presentations I ran at uLearn09. The basis of this presentation is a collection of open source, free or great proprietory tools that I use in my classroom.
While the “software for schools” deal does provide a basic productivity suite for computers in schools and an OS it [...]
The BBC posted a video clip from one of their roving technology reports. The reporter Rory Cellan-Jones is visiting a school in Kigali, Rwanda. The school has 3000 pupils and the students all have OLPC’s .
The clip shows the students engaged in various actvities using their OLPC’s as the report wanders around. Its great to [...]
Facebook’s recent success at reaching the 300 million users milestone prompted a very interesting and insightful conversation with a school principal.
Facebook and other social networking sites are for many, many administrators a bone of contention. Many look at it with a degree of fear and trepidation because of “potential” for inappropriate activity. This can be [...]
This is a follow on post from the cell phones in class post. One of the comments I received cause me to reflect on the influence teachers have.
Chris left this comment:
I like what you said about respect your students’ privacy. My seventh grade math teacher confiscated a note I was writing in class and [...]
There has been a healthy discussion on the wiki about cell phones in class. I was interested to read from one member of the wiki that there school was actively asking students to turn out their pockets if they thought they had a cell phone.
Some schools do seem to be making extra work for themselves [...]
I receive from the University of Auckland a regular update on the short course they run (they are very good). The latest one was talking about leadership.
They stated five practices of Exemplary Leadership. They are:
Leaders model the way.
Leaders inspire a shared vision.
Leaders challenge the process.
Leaders enable others to act.
Leaders encourage the heart.
I have been thinking [...]
Its the top of the third quarter of the 9th Innings of the 21st Century and I think I have had enough of the term 21st Century skills. We are 9% through the 21st Century and we are still discussing 21st Century skills in the future tense. We are still discussing them as if they [...]
In my last post about the Software for schools package I recieved a reply from Paul, who works at the Ministry. I have worked with Paul in the past and I believe the question he asked was worth more than just a threaded reply
Here is Pauls original comment and below it my responce;
“Good thoughts Andrew. [...]
I have been mulling over the software deal for schools now for a couple of days and it is raising more concerns.
The Software for schools deal provides “certainty” for some of the stakeholders, namely the software suppliers. They have certainty of funding and revenue for the next three years.
It does not provide certainty for schools, [...]
