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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Roland Gesthuizen

Roland Gesthuizen

Universities told to adapt or die - 3 views

  • ''Fixing the technology's important, but so is changing the pedagogy,'' Mr Tanner said. ''While we've made great progress in e-learning, there's been an awful lot about 'e' and not much about 'learning'.''
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    UNIVERSITIES that fail to embrace new technology will lose students and die, former federal finance minister Lindsay Tanner has warned. Mr Tanner, now a vice-chancellor's fellow at Victoria University, told a Melbourne audience last night that while Australian universities were using the internet to deliver study materials, they were not yet fully exploiting the potential technology offered for new ways of learning.
Roland Gesthuizen

Twitter FAQ: RT, HT, OH Explained. | Brent Ozar PLF - 3 views

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    Welcome to Twitter! There's a lot of confusing terms. What does the abbreviation Twitter RT mean? How do you reply to someone on Twitter? What are the definitions of all this slang stuff? Here's the answers to your Twitter questions.
Roland Gesthuizen

The Australian Curriculum v2.0 - 3 views

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    The Australian Curriculum sets out the core knowledge, understanding, skills and general capabilities important for all Australian students. The Australian Curriculum describes the learning entitlement of students as a foundation for their future learning, growth and active participation in the Australian community.
Roland Gesthuizen

BullyED - Beat bullying through supportive education - 2 views

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    This anti-bullying program is available free for all Australian school teachers.
Roland Gesthuizen

Cybersmart Tagged - 4 views

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    Developed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority's Cybersmart program, Tagged is recommended for use with students aged 14 and over. Tagged is supported by lesson plans and compelling character reflection interviews. It explores themes of personal and peer safety and responsibility that are crucial to maintaining positive online behaviours and digital reputation into adulthood.
Roland Gesthuizen

change.mooc.ca ~ #change11 - 3 views

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    George Siemens, Stephen Downes, and Dave Cormier - have had over 10,000 participants in the various courses we've run since 2008. The learning experience has been terrific. We've refined our pedagogical approaches, improved the software (well, actually, just Stephen did that), and developed a research agenda around learning in networks in open online courses... If you are interested in joining, please register for the course. We will be posting more information over the next few months.
Roland Gesthuizen

The Australian Curriculum Consultation online - Home - 4 views

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    The Australian Curriculum consultation site allows you to read, review and provide feedback on draft curriculum materials as they become available for public consultation. Feedback can be provided through the consultation portal, by completing online questionnaires and by submitting additional comments via email. The feedback is used to revise and improve the draft materials so that the best possible quality Australian Curriculum documents are developed and published.
Roland Gesthuizen

ISTE Unplugged - home - 0 views

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    "The Unplugged area will be located next to the Blogger's Cafe. Have you always wanted to present at NECC/ISTE but were not selected? Or do you have a topic to present or discuss that wasn't timely when formal presentation applications were due last year, but is so now? If so, sign yourself up below!"
Roland Gesthuizen

Where are Personal Computers Headed? ~ Chris Pirillo - 2 views

  • as you look to the future of personal computing, it may not be about how many terabytes a drive can hold, or how many cores your processor has, but how connected you are to the web
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    "Every technology pundit in the world has an opinion on where personal computers are headed. They use words like cloud and social to describe our online activity, an increasing amount of cores when asked about processors, and the word touch is thrown around more and more. All this aside, where are personal computers headed?"
Roland Gesthuizen

How to convert PDF to Word DOC for free: a comparative test | freewaregenius.com - 6 views

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    "Can you perform good PDF to Word/Doc/RTF conversions for free? Absolutely. This posting will present and compare a number of different ways to convert PDF files into Word .DOC or .RTF formats, for free and without any watermarks or restrictions. Options discussed include both free programs and free online conversion services."
Roland Gesthuizen

The Might of the PEN - The Daily WTF - 5 views

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    "If she hadn't been wearing a visitor tag, he'd have mistaken her for a fellow high school student. He'd been volunteered to fix the library's computers for extra credit. Fixing meant cleaning off spyware and gum, and popping the key letters back into their proper order. He didn't mind, though. It gave him a chance to use the computers alone. And he would have used them alone for the rest of his life, if Ms. Kelly hadn't shown up dragging a handcart overloaded with boxes of printer paper .."
Roland Gesthuizen

OpenAustralia.org: Are your Representatives and Senators working for you in Australia's... - 0 views

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    OpenAustralia.org is a non-partisan website run by a charity, the OpenAustralia Foundation and volunteers. It aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on their representatives in Parliament.
Roland Gesthuizen

Open Source Mac - Free Mac software, all open-source, all OS X. - 8 views

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    Free and open-source software is good for you and good for the world. This is the best free Mac software that we know of.
Roland Gesthuizen

SLR Camera Simulator | Simulates a digital SLR camera - 8 views

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    Practice using an SLR camera... Experiment with the lighting, ISO, aperture, shutter, and distance settings while observing the readings in the camera viewfinder Click the "Snap photo!" button Review your photo!
Roland Gesthuizen

Larry Magid: Online Safety Tied to Real World Behavior - 2 views

  • technology can change the way people bully, but bullying is still bullying. Whether it happens through text messages, on Facebook, in a chat room or in the schoolyard, it still involves repeated harassment and typically an imbalance of power between the victim and the bully.
  • Cyberbullying does have unique aspects, though -- the bully can be invisible and actions can quickly go viral, involving lots of people "piling on" a single victim.
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    "Internet safety" is mostly about behavior in the blended world where kids live on and offline. How they treat themselves and others has a big impact on whether their experiences will be good or bad.  And it's true for adults as well. While there are unique aspects to protecting yourself online, many of the major online risk factors -- especially for children -- have their offline equivalents.
Roland Gesthuizen

xkcd: Progeny - comic - 5 views

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    Computerized, awesome teachers cartoon.
Roland Gesthuizen

QATs (Quality Assessment Tasks) - 2 views

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    an invaluable teachers' resource used for assessment within the VCE (Victoria) and the HSC (NSW). Developed by experienced teachers .. for internal assessment and end of year examinations. Professionally designed and delivered by email .. they save teachers time and effort while providing confidence that assessment is reliable, accurate and consistent with requirements specified by education authorities.
Roland Gesthuizen

NAPLAN-style testing has 'failed' US schools - 5 views

  • Professor Darling-Hammond said Australia would be wiser to follow the examples of Finland, Korea, Shanghai and Singapore, whose 15-year-olds achieve the best results in numeracy, literacy and science in comparisons with other developed nations.
  • While the basic skills literacy and numeracy tests were designed to help teachers identify children with learning difficulties needing assistance, they are now being used as a competitive measure of school performance on the federal government's My School website.
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    NAPLAN-style testing and reporting has failed in the United States by narrowing the curriculum and corrupting education standards, says a chief education adviser to the US President, Barack Obama. .. The US tests have been criticised for narrowing the curriculum to reading and maths and multiple-choice formats.
Roland Gesthuizen

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

  • 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.
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    "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."
Roland Gesthuizen

YouTube - Brad Paisley - Welcome To The Future - 4 views

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    "Music video by Brad Paisley performing Welcome To The Future. YouTube view counts pre-VEVO: 86,896 (C) 2009 Sony Music Entertainment"
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