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Tony Searl

Irving Wladawsky-Berger: The Power of Pull - 3 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 11 Apr 10 - Cached
  • “It is no accident that most of these early examples of creation spaces are initially attracting individuals rather than institutions.  Passionate individuals (that’s you) naturally seek out these creation spaces to get better faster, while most institutions are still deeply concerned about protection of knowledge stocks and do not yet see the growing importance of knowledge flows in driving performance improvement.  As passionate individuals engage and experience the performance benefits of participation, they will help to drag institutions more broadly into relevant creation spaces, becoming catalysts for the institutional innovations required for effective participation.”
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 11 Apr 10
       
      so true, all educators should read this
    • Ruth Howard
      Ruth Howard on 14 Apr 10
       
      Thanks so much Tony it also looks like 'intuitive' flow will become the norm, pre-paving the way for mind transference, of course it's totally serendipitous of you to alert me to this site and I've also been meaning to look at John Seely Brown....if intuitive serendipitous learning does become validated as mainstream this surely is consciousness SHIFT. Then time wont be a problem! We will reach for the solutions and they will be here already. Yes I know its a bigger jump but it's a natural extension and one outcome I already see in my own life. mmm think I'll repost this on the site itself to show my appreciation. This has huge impact on learning but massive for society.
  • Tony Searl on 11 Apr 10
     
    "We are literally pushed into educational systems designed to anticipate our needs over twelve or more years of schooling and our key needs for skills over the rest of our lives. As we successfully complete this push program, we graduate into firms and other institutions that are organized around push approaches to resource mobilization. Detailed demand forecasts, operational plans, and operational process manuals carefully script the actions and specify the resources required to meet anticipated demand."
Tony Richards

Google Global Science Fair 2011 - 2 views

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shared by Tony Richards on 12 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 12 Jan 11
     
    This is good, I must keep the April deadline in mind. Will be teaching 7 science at Keysborough SC this year.
Tony Searl

SocialTech: Online Educa Berlin 2010 Keynote: Building Networked Learning Environments - 2 views

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shared by Tony Searl on 21 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • what constitutes digital literacy or digital literacies, should, in symmetry with the subject itself, not be perceived as a problem we aim to solve, or a thing we aim to determine once and for all.
  • At some point, we need to agree actions.
  • What I’m interested in is supporting the skills and critical thinking about educational engagement in networked environments, and particularly in how educators and learners can use these to support and transfigure existing practice.
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  • Supporting or learners and staff to use collaborative digital environments and tools in safe, critical and innovative ways should be on the top of all our digital literacy wish lists and informing local and national policy and practice.
  • We need to be mindful that a great deal of current research highlights correlations between socio economic status and access.
  • But supporting all of our children and young people’s ability to have meaningful, useful and safe online interactions means that we don’t further disadvantage some of our most vulnerable populations.
  • It turns out what people most want to know about their friends isn't how they imagine themselves to be, but what it is they are actually getting up to and thinking about
  • Recent research has clearly underlined the need to address children’s and young people’s use of the internet, mobile and games technologies in the context of digital literacy.
  • The report points up young people’s largely pedestrian use of technology, and highlights the role that educators could and should be playing in supporting young peoples engagement as producers, creators, curators rather than primarily as consumers:
  • There are many definitions of digital literacy. In one of the earliest (2006), Allan Martin defined Digital Literacy as “…the awareness, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital tools and facilities to identify, access, manage, integrate, evaluate, analyse and synthesise digital resources, construct new knowledge, create media expressions, and communicate with others in the context of specific life situations, in order to enable constructive social action; and to reflect upon this process.” 
  • The characteristics across many of the available definitions are that digital literacy are that: it supports and helps develop traditional literacies – it isn’t about the use of technology for it’s own sake or ICT as an isolated practice it's a life long practice – developing and continuing to maintain skills in the context of continual development of technologies and practices it's about skills and competencies, and critical reflection on how these skills and competencies are applied it's about social engagement – collaboration, communication, and creation within social contexts
  • Tony Searl on 21 Dec 10
     
    reducing our aims just to types of skills risks boring everyone to death with short lived, tool specific training which doesn't address the social and political context of people's lives or their reasons for engaging with technology.
Lisa Dumicich

Edheads - Activate Your Mind! - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Dumicich on 09 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Lisa Dumicich on 09 Jun 09
     
    Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards. We partner with various school systems in the United States, which help us research, design and test our activities every step of the way! Very cool virtual surgery activites
  • Lisa Dumicich on 09 Jun 09
     
    Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards. We partner with various school systems in the United States, which help us research, design and test our activities every step of the way!
Roland Gesthuizen

'Bring your own device' catching on in schools | Curriculum | eSchoolNews.com - 3 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 07 May 11 - No Cached
  • With access issues in mind, allowing students to bring their own devices from home can offer educational benefits, as well as some surprisingly positive results when it comes to creative thinking and classroom behavior.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 07 May 11
     
    "Mobile devices are now found in the hands of most children, and school leaders are using that to their advantage by incorporating devices that students already own into classroom lessons and projects."
Tony Searl

National curriculum - 6 views

www.smh.com.au/...oung-minds-20110717-1hjz0.html

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shared by Tony Searl on 18 Jul 11 - No Cached
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 18 Jul 11
       
      nothing new in this but worth a repeat on a different stage SMH
  • Tony Searl on 18 Jul 11
     
    Rather than taking the time to get it right, we're using an outdated view of what kids need at school - dividing all the knowledge up into separate academic subjects and disciplines and then overloading those with content
Nigel Robertson

Professional Development - 43 views

Just looking for some professional advise form like minded individuals. I have been teaching for 5 years or so and have been contemplating doing my Masters to add a few more strings to my bow. I th...

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started by Jared Holden on 10 Jul 08 1 follow-up, last by Nigel Robertson on 10 Jul 08
Nigel Coutts

Revealing our Lifelong Learning - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 10 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 10 Jan 16
     
    Few would argue that life-long learning is a worthy goal with real benefits for our long term mental health and happiness. Engaging with new ideas, concepts and ways of doing things is the ideal strategy for a healthy mind and a disposition towards better understanding the world and challenging our entrenched beliefs.
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