One of my current blog topics is 21st Century teaching and learning. I have written a number of posts on this topic.
I believe there are three factors or areas that key to 21st century teaching and learning:
The 21st Century teacher and learner
The 21st Century Learning space
Facilitating 21st Century learning by changing
resourcing
teaching skills
the curriculum
I have combined [...]
Robin Good’s - A Beginner’s blog publishing guide
This is a really good resource for staff (and student) professional development. It covers:
what is a blog
why should I write it
platforms
blogging from the desktop
what should I write about
Publising your blog
image sources
resources
Its a thorough detailed and useful guide and one I will be using with m,y students and staff
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(with apologies for the tardiness)
Most of us have met them. If we teach in independent schools, higher decile schools or teach in more privilaged areas they are becoming increasingly common. Even the more short sighted of teachers can see them increasing as our future becomes increasingly electronic. Whether we call them Digital Natives (Marc [...]
This is an excellent Youtube Video by Prof Stephen Heppell. Its an interesting commentry about learning, the role of the teacher and schools. Well worth a watch. This video sits well with my earlier post on 21st Century Educators.
Schools of the future
Stephen ahs also got his own youtube channel - again worth a visit for [...]
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 [...]
This is a great video.
The video starts by making a scary commentry on the state of education. Of the 55 industry sectors examined in their level of ict intensiveness education ranked 55th below Coal Mining. Steven Hebbell contributes to the video and the reflections.
Some of the comments are insightful and challenging like
“The death of education [...]
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 [...]
Juliette Major (Education Services, Catholic Education Office of Canberra and Goulburn) has written a brilliant rubric for use of Interactive Whiteboards by Teachers. The rubric covers four different areas:
control
interaction
integration
collaboration
In this rubric she has covered everything we would love to see in our use of Interactive whiteboards in the classroom. An excellent effort and well worth [...]
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 [...]
I have been working on another rubric which I would like to share with you.
This is one for using skype (or a similar audio or audio/visual tools) to look at teleconferencing.
The rubric has 2 aspects
1. Applying - this is looking at the planning and communications aspects of the conference call
2. Evaluating - this is the [...]
