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This year’s Horizon Report K-12 is out now…Check out the introductory video below: It’s always useful to look up beyond the parapet at international shifts and trends and consider what the implications might be for educators and students. And then we ask ourselves,’ so what?’ What does this mean for me, my school, my students? […]
Read More On the horizon for K-12 | 2013Here’s a summary of my notes that I kept from last year while writing the literature review for my Masters thesis on social networking for teachers’ professional learning. I found other people’s notes useful so this might be too…. Step One: Got organised Generated key words from my research question Organised folders into broad categories in Zotero (combining […]
Read More How I used online tools to write my literature reviewI recently presented a series of keynotes, developed with Dr John Fenaughty, on the topic of digital citizenship and how fear-based messages, curriculum add-ons and reliance of filters are not as likely to foster digital citizens as much as embedding it in authentic curriculum-based learning. I went phishing fishing on YouTube for positive messages and […]
Read More Learning online | The kids are all right…[Note: This is cross-posted from the CORE Education blog…] Just written a guest post for CORE on a recent breakfast session that I facilitated with Essential Resources, down in Invercargill. Here’s a flavour: “We are all used to the traditional mode of professional learning – face-to-face, with possibly a presenter and some interactive elements. We may also […]
Read More Blended professional learning | Walk the talk“Tupu te toi, ora te toi, whanake te toi. Te toi i ahu mai i Hawaiki.” “Grow the treasure, sustain the treasure, develop the treasure, the treasure that stems from Hawaiki”. – nā King Taawhiao: Te Toi Tupu vision, gifted by Waikato-Tainui I have just returned from two days’ stay on Tūrangawaewae Marae, the headquarters of Te […]
Read More Growing the treasure | Two days at TūrangawaewaeIs personalised learning for all a pipe dream? Perhaps. A set of principles to aim for in the way we design learning? Why not? This is a quick share of a resource I have been looking at again today: >>>The Learner’s Charter for a personalised learning environment from FutureLab. It outlines what a learner might rightfully expect in […]
Read More Learner’s charter for personalised environments | FutureLabThis is a quick share of a recent report on the ways in which technology can enhance learning that is: “socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity.” The report – Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design (Digital Media and Learning Research Hub) – sets out to explore ways in which technology can be […]
Read More Connected learning | Making learning inclusive and meaningfulMy head is still scattered so, at this stage, thoughts on #KiwiFoo 2013 are best expressed by others (although I can just about stretch to a wee spot of curation)…..check out my Storify collection for a flavour of this rich unconference. Massive thanks and hat-tips to Nat Torkington, Janine Torkington, the hard-working crew, Mahurangi College, […]
Read More #KiwiFoo 2013A recent Teacher-Only Day saw me invited to work alongside the teachers at Wellesley College. We were kickstarting inquiries into how we can best integrate technology into effective literacy practice: The key points we explored included: the way technologies can help us integrate contexts that are meaningful to the students into effective learning – and […]
Read More Trialling technology to grow writersNo two ways about it. It was a massive week at ICOT2013, not just because I was helping the CORE Education events team roll out this huge event. I was on the media team, and had the privilege of interviewing some of the invited presenters, included Dr. Sharon Friesen, Ewan McIntosh and …(drumroll)… Dr Edward […]
Read More #ICOT2013 | International Conference on Thinking
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