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Roland Gesthuizen

Clunky, outdated ultranet faces an uncertain future - 3 views

www.theage.com.au/...ain-future-20121206-2aybz.html

ultranet TheAge

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • The $99 million ultranet, an online portal that was supposed to connect teachers, parents and students at state schools, has been dogged by cost blowouts, technical glitches and opposition from teachers
  • The ultranet, promised by the former government before the 2006 state election, was designed to provide a state-wide, secure website that parents, students and teachers at every state school could access.
  • the ultranet was a closed space which meant students could not be taught digital citizenship skills in a real environment. ''The whole point of Web 2 was communicating globally - this is completely within a walled garden,''
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 23 Dec 12
     
    "THE future of Victoria's troubled online education network is in doubt, with many schools refusing to use it amid complaints it is clunky and outdated and the security wall does not provide a real-life cyber environment."
Rhondda Powling

Social Media Policy | iCyberSafe.com - Living in a Connected World - 1 views

icybersafe.com/...social-media-policy

social media socialmedia schools education policies

shared by Rhondda Powling on 16 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 16 Aug 12
     
    The purpose of this Policy is to set standards of behaviour for the use of Social Media that are consistent with the broader values and expectations of the Ivanhoe community.
Tania Sheko

Breaking the barriers of time and space: the dawning of the great age of librarians - 2 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...PMC3257492

future libraries librarians relevance

shared by Tania Sheko on 29 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • We connect people to knowledge. We bring people together with the intellectual content of the past and present so that new knowledge can be created. We provide the ways and means for people to find entertainment and solace and enlightenment and joy and delight in the intellectual, scientific and creative work of other people. This is what we have always been about. [7]
  • Tania Sheko on 29 Feb 12
     
    Purpose: This lecture, reflecting on future roles, posits the potential dawning of a "great age of librarians," if librarians make the conceptual shift of focusing on their own skills and activities rather than on their libraries.
nathandh_2000

Are kids really motivated by technology? | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs - 3 views

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technology motivation education ict engagement

shared by nathandh_2000 on 19 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • What students are really motivated by are opportunities to be social — to interact around challenging concepts in powerful conversations with their peers. They are motivated by issues connected to fairness and justice. They are motivated by the important people in their lives, by the opportunity to wrestle with the big ideas rolling around in their minds, and by the often-troubling changes they see happening in the world around them. Technology’s role in today’s classroom, then, isn’t to motivate. It’s to give students opportunities to efficiently and effectively participate in motivating activities built around the individuals and ideas that matter to them.
  • Basically what I’m arguing is that finding ways to motivate students in our classrooms shouldn’t start with conversations about technology. Instead, it should start with conversations about our kids. What are they deeply moved by? What are they most interested in? What would surprise them? Challenge them? Leave them wondering? Once you have the answers to these questions — only after you have the answers to these questions — are you ready to make choices about the kinds of digital tools that are worth embracing.
Sam Boswell

Australian children's television foundation teaching and learning resources - 0 views

ecm.det.wa.edu.au/...OCS000.html

australian children television foundation teaching learning resources

shared by Sam Boswell on 06 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Sam Boswell on 06 Aug 13
     
    Resources for teaching AC.
Rhondda Powling

FetchClimate-harnessing the cloud to find and share environmental data - Microsoft Research Connections Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs - 2 views

blogs.msdn.com/...-share-environmental-data.aspx

data environmental issues

shared by Rhondda Powling on 28 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 28 Apr 14
     
    This site that can display comprehensive environmental data for any region in the world in seconds
Nigel Coutts

Why build a Personal Learning Network? - 0 views

thelearnersway.net/...ld-a-personal-learning-network

education learning twitter PLN

shared by Nigel Coutts on 20 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 20 Sep 15
     
    'Inside the Black Box' was written by Black and William in 1998 and in it they describe the classroom as a black box with inputs and outputs but what occurred inside was a mystery. For many teachers the reality has been that what occurs in their classroom has been both private and isolating, a matter between the teacher and his or her students but a task largely tackled alone. But this isolationist view is, in the age of the social media and networking increasingly challenged and more and more teachers are finding their voice, sharing their ideas and gaining valuable insights from a global community of connected educators.
Tony Searl

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » How Different Is Your Bow-tie? - 1 views

blog.p2pfoundation.net/...21

technology systemic change reform ststems detnsw dernsw innovation

shared by Tony Searl on 22 Jun 10 - Cached
  • As these systems evolve, the number of inputs and outputs generally increases. Each time a new node is added to the network, the number of potential connections required scales exponentially
  • Furthermore, because there is only one standard, there is no incentive for innovation, which means that the system cannot evolve.
  • Single standards are notoriously difficult to overcome or dislodge, even when they become ludicrously inefficient, as is the case with the Western “QWERTY” keyboard layout.
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  • the system has great difficulty overcoming its own internal structure and adapting to the change.
  • Complex systems of this type, that are too loosely structurally coupled, maximize their openness to innovation but do so entirely at the cost of being able to exploit those innovations when they are useful
  • a panarchy
  • The bow-tie structure manages these tensions by occupying an “edge of chaos” zone in between too much rigidity and too much flexibility, between too little diversity, and too much.
  • There is a need to capitalize on potential efficiencies in one’s current environment while at the same time remaining flexible enough to adapt if the environment changes
  • confusing the necessary cluster of evolving core elements with a “standard
  • Future networks operate on multiple standards in the core — optimal levels of infrastructure arrived at by open innovation in the periphery that makes its way into the core as adoption and usage increase.
  • widely agreed upon cultural understandings and practices.
  • Tony Searl on 22 Jun 10
     
    Single standards are notoriously difficult to overcome or dislodge, even when they become ludicrously inefficient,
Tony Searl

elearnspace › Well Played, Blackboard - 0 views

www.elearnspace.org/...well-played-blackboard

LMS Moodle Elluminate Blackboard

shared by Tony Searl on 09 Jul 10 - Cached
  • To counter this view, the edupunk/DIY approach to learning has produced an emphasis on personal learning environments and networks. To date, this movement has generated a following from a small passionate group of educators, but has not really made much of an impact on traditional education. I don’t suspect it will until, sadly, it can be commoditized and scaled to fit into existing systemic models of education.
  • Adobe Connect has somewhat of an academic presence, but it has seen far more success in corporate settings, similar to WebEx and GoToMeeting.
  • Integration, not the platform itself, is now the critical focus
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  • Which means that decisions makers are motivated (partly out of fear of appearing ill-informed, partly out of not wanting to take risks) to adopt approaches that integrate fairly seamlessly across the education spectrum. Why buy an LMS when you can buy the educational process?
  • shift from LMS-as-platform to LMS-as-integration
  • Blackboard did not buy into the synchronous education market with the Elluminate and Wimba purchase – they bought the market
  • In the mean time, well played, Blackboard! Your acquisition will have a far greater long term impact in educational technology than most people realize…
  • trust in Blackboard is low – partly due to their lawsuit and partly due to chaotic integrations with their previous purchases.
  • Tony Searl on 09 Jul 10
     
    Some universities are beginning to focus on a big-picture view of technology: making learning resources available in multimedia, integrating technology from design to delivery, using mobile technologies, and increased focus on network pedagogy. Blackboard (and LMS' in general) have been able to present the message that "you need an LMS to do blended and online learning". To counter this view, the edupunk/DIY approach to learning has produced an emphasis on personal learning environments and networks.
Tony Searl

Turning Children into Data - 4 views

www.alfiekohn.org/...data.htm

kohn assessment reform change technology innovation education data

shared by Tony Searl on 24 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The teachers understood that learning doesn’t have to be measured in order to be assessed. 
  • It focused on teachers’ personal “connection[s] with our subject area” as the basis for helping students to think “like mathematicians or historians or writers or scientists, instead of drilling them in the vocabulary of those subject areas or breaking down the skills.”  In a word, the teachers put kids before data.
  • All that does is corrupt the measure (unless it’s a test score, in which case it’s already misleading), undermine collaboration among teachers, and make teaching less joyful and therefore less effective by meaningful criteria.
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  • kids should have a lot to say about their assessment.
  • we want to create an environment where students can “experience success and failure not as reward and punishment but as information."  
  • students’ desire to learn?
  • The more that students are led to focus on how well they're doing, the less engaged they tend to become with what they're doing. 
  • A school that’s all about achievement and performance is a school that’s not really about discovery and understanding.
  • teachers’ isolation, fatalism, and fear (of demands by clueless officials to raise test scores at any cost).
  • Tony Searl on 24 Aug 10
     
    "While some education conferences are genuinely inspiring, others serve mostly to demonstrate how even intelligent educators can be remarkably credulous, nodding agreeably at descriptions of programs that ought to elicit fury or laughter, avidly copying down hollow phrases from a consultant's PowerPoint presentation, awed by anything that's borrowed from the business world or involves digital technology. Many companies and consultants thrive on this credulity, and also on teachers' isolation, fatalism, and fear (of demands by clueless officials to raise test scores at any cost). With a good dose of critical thinking and courage, a willingness to say "This is bad for kids and we won't have any part of it," we could drive these outfits out of business -- and begin to take back our schools."
Tony Searl

#PLENK2010 Assessment in distributed networks « Jenny Connected - 2 views

jennymackness.wordpress.com/...ssment-in-distributed-networks

assessment plenk2010 ideas questions improve learning education technology

shared by Tony Searl on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Tony Searl on 19 Oct 10
     
    So how to assess large numbers. Traditionally this been done through tests and exams which can be easily marked by assessors. Whilst these make the assessment process manageable for the tutors, they offer little more than a mark or grade to the students - since very often there is no feedback-feedforward loop associated with the grade. Also tests and exams are not the best assessment strategy for all situations and purposes.
Rhondda Powling

SCIS | Thinking about ebooks - 2 views

www2.curriculum.edu.au/...thinking_about_ebooks.html

Stephen Abram ebooks scis thinking reading e-books e-learning

shared by Rhondda Powling on 20 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Rhondda Powling on 20 Oct 10
     
    An article that describes and discusses the ebook, looking at what it is, and what it is not. He discusses fiction versus non-fiction, reference material and textbooks, and how the ebook can enhance usability.
Grace Kat

Online Course: Connectivism & Connective Knowledge - 0 views

ltc.umanitoba.ca/connectivism

connectivism

shared by Grace Kat on 21 Jun 08 - No Cached
  • Grace Kat on 21 Jun 08
     
    George Siemens and Stephen Downes will co-facilitate the course. The support wiki for the course provides additional information.
Amanda Rablin

Opensim Users - A place for Opensim users & Developers to connect & share - 0 views

opensim.ning.com

secondlife virtual worlds

shared by Amanda Rablin on 12 Jan 09 - Cached
  • Amanda Rablin on 12 Jan 09
     
    Ning community for OpenSim Users
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