Here are a couple of useful links that I have come across recently. 1. Educause - 7 things you should know - http://www.educause.edu/ There are two recent updates in this useful series. The first is collaborative learning spaces and the second infographics tools. We are seeing across education a shift towards learning happening not just in [...]
In this on the wire update we are looking at a range of interesting websites for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy – digital citizenship and creativity, professional developments and twitter 1. Sixty Symbols – http://www.sixtysymbols.com/index.html this is a physics and astronomy, plus a little bit of mathematics site. In the site are a collection of videos [...]
The last couple of days have been quite interesting, a number of things have come together in a short space of time and this raises some questions for me about where we are heading. This week I had the privilage of talking with a major New Zealand company about their use of social media as [...]
For the first term of this year my Year 12 students have been involved in the NetGen Education project as well as the usual curriculum activities. The NetGen Project is the brain child of the flatclassroom project leaders Julie Lindsay and Vicki Davis. These two teachers working together with Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics and [...]
A colleague and friend asked me what value I saw in twitter. I took a moment to think about it and my responce was simple, its part of my PLN – Personal Learning Network. This is for me an example of how a social technology has been adapted into a educational technology. I don’t use [...]
This is a new rubric which examines collaboration using online word processing tools like Adobe’s Buzzword, Google Documents or Zoho Documents. The two aspects examined here are the technical use of the tool and the collaborative aspect of sharing and co-operation.The rubric is at the Applying level of Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/collaborative+editing+using+online+WP+rubric.pdf As always I [...]
This is an update on the collaboration rubric. This rubric look at three aspects of an electronic collaboration session. The first is preparation, then use of collaboration features and finally communication features. http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/collaboration+rubric.pdf Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy resources
I have had another article published in Tech Learnings 21st Century connection website This one look at pedagogy and assessment in the 21st Century. It covers thinking skills, collaboration, the place of knowledge and content, assessment, real world tasks, rich tasks open and transparent assessment. Here is the URL – http://www.21centuryconnections.com/node/653
