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Tony Searl

Debunking the Case for National Standards - 2 views

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  • Tony Searl on 12 Jan 10
     
    Debunking the Case for National Standards One-Size-Fits-All Mandates and Their Dangers
Tony Searl

The digital classroom - RN Future Tense - 13 May 2010 - 7 views

www.abc.net.au/...2885066.htm

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  • we do a lot of school to students, instead of telling them and explaining to them, what is our vision? Why are we giving them laptops? It's not because they deserve them. It's because we expect something to change in education. Why aren't we telling them these things? Why aren't we sharing our vision with them, because they can help?
  • get kids communicating with one another outside their own circle of friends
  • create challenges on the web for kids to collaborate, that lead to more social interaction rather than less.
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  • challenges for them is, how do they create learning opportunities that are beyond for example, a worksheet, or beyond that listening to the teacher and doing what the teacher says, and they've really worked very hard to develop those skills.
  • exploring what other people are doing around the world.
  • they have to learn about copyright, and they need to learn about cyber safety.
  • they perhaps don't understand the consequences of what they might put up there.
  • 'If games are the answer, what's the question?'
  • having kids make their own games
  • Are you going to sit passively and wait for the information to come to you, or are you going to go out and find it and if you can't find it, you make it.
  • Tony Searl on 13 May 10
     
    What impact is digital interactive technology having on education? And what will the classroom of the future look like? These are just some of the questions that were raised at the 2010 Australian Council for Computer Education conference.
Roland Gesthuizen

Putting heads together - 1 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Groups whose members had higher levels of “social sensitivity” — the willingness of the group to let all its members take turns and apply their skills to a given challenge — were more collectively intelligent. “Social sensitivity has to do with how well group members perceive each other’s emotions,”
  • What our results indicate is that people with social skills are good for a group — whether they are male or female.
  • We also think it’s possible to improve the intelligence of a group, by either changing the members of a group, or teaching them better ways of interacting
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  • the key point is great, that features of the group can be more important than features of the individuals that make up the group, for determining outcomes
  • clarifying the conditions under which the proportion of women makes a difference would be interesting
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 03 Jan 11
     
    "A new study co-authored by MIT researchers documents the existence of collective intelligence among groups of people who cooperate well, showing that such intelligence extends beyond the cognitive abilities of the groups' individual members, and that the tendency to cooperate effectively is linked to the number of women in a group."
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 03 Jan 11
     
    Some interesting implications here for teams at schools including their composition and providing training to develop social skills.
Roland Gesthuizen

Free Technology for Teachers: The Long and Winding Road - 5 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 01 May 11 - No Cached
  • our goal; technology integration to expand the walls, collaborate globally, and inspire/motivate
  • be as specific and explicit as you can when explaining the goal of technology integration
  • when students are actively engaged, motivated, and excited, learning and behavior are natural
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 01 May 11
     
    "While attending this particular workshop I was, at first, contemplating how I could utilize this tool as an administrator. As those thoughts wandered, the instructor repeatedly said the words "expand the walls of the classroom". That caught my attention and then I had no problem envisioning how the teachers I worked with could utilize a wiki to do just that."
Nigel Coutts

Beyond consumer based ICT - 0 views

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shared by Nigel Coutts on 13 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 13 Mar 16
     
    There is a change taking place in how schools approach ICT, one that has been coming for some time but is at the point of moving into the mainstream. A subtle but powerful shift that sees ICT build connections with the Maker Movement as a tool for solving what Bronwyn Moreton speaking at the ICT Educators of NSW conference describes as the 'I wish it would .. .moment.
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