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Nigel Coutts

The beauty of unfinished work - 0 views

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education learning teaching

shared by Nigel Coutts on 25 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 25 Jul 15
     
    There is a danger in seeking finished perfection in all that we do. There is a risk that our students will focus solely on the attributes that define a finished piece and overlook the importance of the process that leads to it.
Tony Searl

t r u t h o u t | Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich - 5 views

www.truth-out.org/eing-taken-over-mega-rich65363

education freire ideas quality learning teaching

shared by Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Not only does she not have any experience in education and is totally unqualified for the job, but her background mimics the worst of elite arrogance and unaccountable power
  • For Freire, pedagogy was central to a formative culture that makes both critical consciousness and social action possible
  • pedagogy at its best is not about training in techniques and methods, nor does it involve coercion or political indoctrination. Indeed, far from a mere method or an a priori technique to be imposed on all students, education is a political and moral practice that provides the knowledge, skills and social relations that enable students to explore for themselves the possibilities of what it means to be engaged citizens, while expanding and deepening their participation in the promise of a substantive democracy
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  • ffering a way of thinking beyond the seeming naturalness or inevitability of the current state of things, challenging assumptions validated by "common sense," soaring beyond the immediate confines of one's experiences, entering into a dialogue with history and imagining a future that would not merely reproduce the present.
  • Giving students the opportunity to be problem posers and engage in a culture of questioning in the classroom foregrounds the crucial issue of who has control over the conditions of learning, and how specific modes of knowledge, identities and authority are constructed within particular sets of classroom relations.
  • Paulo strongly believed that democracy could not last without the formative culture that made it possible. Educational sites both within schools and the broader culture represented some of the most important venues through which to affirm public values, support a critical citizenry and resist those who would deny the empowering functions of teaching and learning.
  • Tony Searl on 26 Nov 10
     
    There is little interest in understanding the pedagogical foundation of higher education as a deeply civic and political project that provides the conditions for individual autonomy and takes liberation and the practice of freedom as a collective goal
Nigel Robertson

Design with Learning in Mind - 0 views

cgi.stanford.edu/...posting.php

course design elearning learning_design online wcel

shared by Nigel Robertson on 08 Jun 08 - Cached
  • * Short, directed learning segments-Chunk-ability * Ability to repeat and review content-Repeat-ability * Ability to stop and resume without having to start all over-Pause-ability * Clear, direct instructions-Understand-ability
  • we lead students rather than dispense knowledge to them. We become the bridge between students and content rather than the source of the content. It is a perhaps subtle change but nevertheless important because it means taking on different responsibilities.
  • Strategies that support this shift in perspective include having the students moderate discussion forums, prepare concept summaries and examples for other students, and assume greater responsibility as frontline moderators for the course (Boettcher, 2007).
anonymous

Are you listening to this?… Why, yes. I am. But, are you? « Real Reasons to Write - 0 views

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blc08 newliteracies reading writing

shared by anonymous on 20 Jul 08 - Cached
  • literacy is situated, contextual, social, multiple, active and a component of identity. New literacies don’t replace former literacies. This isn’t a situation of either “new literacies” or “old literacies.”
  • Teaching English is about opening up what counts as valued communication, inviting ALL students to engage in multimodal discourses, and to put their knowledge to work. We produce and consume media; expertise means leveraging tools and spaces in intentional, productive ways; and we participate in global communities that are keenly, deeply invested
  • importance of balance across literacies by providing opportunities for students to demonstrate their knowledge through multiple modes - and to engage, where possible, with “struggleware.”
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  • be transparent when teaching - and to empower students to teach and attain a whole new level of credibility. If I teach in the ways that they inspire me to consider, I am empowering students to engage with literacies that value the ways that they are multiply literate
  • They challenge me to be a gateopener, rather than a gatekeeper.
  • anonymous on 20 Jul 08
     
    A response to Marc Prensky's BLC'08 session on teaching programming
Jess McCulloch

Teachers on learning curve | The Australian - 0 views

www.theaustralian.news.com.au/...25197,23479918-5010800,00.html

aust_edtech newspaper_articles teaching the_australian

shared by Jess McCulloch on 07 Apr 08 - Cached
  • As a matter of course, technology is also changing the way teachers teach -- from how they engage their students and manage their classrooms, to how they shape their working day, manage their professional lives -- and indeed how they think about a career in education.
  • this is affecting the way she manages the class.
  • "Firstly, I teach in smaller grabs of time," she says, "but this is a good thing. I personally believe that teaching has long been too auditory. It is important to cater for different perceptual styles -- visual, auditory and kinesthetic (learning by doing) -- especially when teaching younger children."
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  • Before the internet, to be a teacher you had to be everything in one person. Now there is a range of possibilities and many more people can become part of the education process,"
    • Jess McCulloch
      Jess McCulloch on 07 Apr 08
       
      Maybe a good conversation starter for technoLOTE?
  • "This is not to diminish the role of educators to simply and an administrative job," she says. "Teaching is an intellectual skill. It is the art of getting people to expand their minds, have insights, develop values and to grow emotionally. That will not change."
    • Jess McCulloch
      Jess McCulloch on 07 Apr 08
       
      A great definition of teaching - one for those who still think they have to know all the content.
Suzie Vesper

Import Form - 3 views

www.fillanypdf.com/...ImportForm.aspx

shared by Suzie Vesper on 09 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • Suzie Vesper on 09 Feb 10
     
    Add a PDF form to this online tool and people can type into the fields.
Tony Searl

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

blog.irvingwb.com/...the-power-of-pull.html

pull push innovation change

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."
Roland Gesthuizen

Putting heads together - 1 views

web.mit.edu/...collective-intel-1001.html

MIT research intelligence psychology behaviour gender socialnetworking

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

My School - 3 views

www.myschool.edu.au

NAPLAN education Australia curriculum assessment school reporting testing imported

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Feb 11 - Cached
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Feb 11
     
    A profile of almost 10,000 Australian school to help search for schools compare statistically similar schools, view school-level NAPLAN results, identify schools that are doing well and share successful strategies. This service is designed to support acce
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 24 Feb 11
     
    Aim of this website is to quickly locate statistical and contextual information about schools and compare them with statistically similar schools across Australia.
Jenny Gilbert

The Importance of Digital Citizenship in Social Media | Edutopia - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/...cial-digital-media-citizenship

digitalcitizenship digital_citizenship edchat edtech

shared by Jenny Gilbert on 19 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • The best offense always begins with a solid defense. This is true in sports and is directly applicable to responsible use of classroom technology and social media. In my last post I encouraged educators to "Just Get Out There," but in this post I am pulling back on the reins a bit. While we want our students to get out there and use new and emerging technologies, we need to give them the fundamentals to play the best defense. Educate, before you integrate.
Chris Betcher

Cut your marking by a third. « Martin Jorgensen - 7 views

martinjorgensen.com/?p=561

feedback screencast marking

shared by Chris Betcher on 13 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Screencasting doesn’t replace traditional feedback in the classroom, but what it does do is give you a powerful alternate method of reaching students where it can be most effective. Recorded asynchronous feedback allows the student to reflect on your feedback in their own time, at their own pace.
  • What I have quickly discovered however is that this restriction is a boon. It forces me to consider the most important, most achievable goals for improvement the student needed to consider.
  • Chris Betcher on 13 Jun 11
     
    Over the last few years I've been using screencasting more and more to reach students with feedback that's delivered at a time, place and pace that suits them. Screencast software enables you to capture a video for the student of what is occurring on your laptop or desktop computer screen, and record your voice to accompany it.
Tony Searl

Learning Reimagined: Participatory, Peer, Global, Online | DMLcentral - 4 views

www.dmlcentral.net/...rticipatory-peer-global-online

participatory learning online HowardRheingold

shared by Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • I work from the first moments to persuade people that it's possible for all of us to learn together as a community in a more deeply satisfying and useful way than if students take responsibility only for their own learning
    • Tony Searl
      Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11
       
      Howard R.
  • shared goal of learning about infotention, curation, personal learning networks, and cooperation theory is our goal of becoming a learning community
  • Roles include searchers, chat summarizers, session summarizers, mindmap leaders, session bloggers
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  • Knowing why we use forums, blogs, wikis, synchronous chat and video, social bookmarks, mindmaps is the foundation for the kind of active inquiry, culture of conversation, self-directed collaborative groups that bring a peer learning group to life.
  • The magic in this simple whiteboard exercise is that multiple actions can take place simultaneously and nobody knows who is doing what.
  • talk about the importance of exploring close enough to the edge to fall over it frequently. I model tolerance for error, learning from error, pushing the envelope of tech
  • Tony Searl on 26 Jul 11
     
    the chances of successful outcomes are multiplied when every person in the group makes a commitment to active participation in helping others learn.
Pam Thompson

Writing Prompts for the 6+1 Traits - 0 views

www.thetraits.org/prompts.php

writing narrative prompts

shared by Pam Thompson on 21 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Pam Thompson on 21 Jun 09
     
    Prompts main image The best prompts are the ones that spark a personal connection between the writer and their ideas. Provided here are some generic writing prompts to get you started, but you will also find some tips on how to write your own prompts. These self-written prompts will offer better starting blocks for your students than the generic prompts because they spring from the immediacy of their lives. Another source for writing prompts is Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment by Jane Bell Keister. Narrative 1. It is 20 years from now. Your name has just been called and you are about to receive an award. Tell the story of how you came to be so successful and win this award. (Gr. 6-12) 2. Rewrite a fairy tale from a different point of view. For instance, * The Three Pigs as the wolf would tell it * Hansel & Gretel as the witch would tell it OR, use any example you like. (Gr. 5-8) 3. Write a story based on one of the following: * Where is it? * Breaking loose * If I had my way ... * Suddenly, in the headlights ... * That noise! * Don't even remind me * The biggest nuisance * Annoying! * At last! (Gr. 5-12) 4. Think of your best or worst day in school. Tell the story of what happened. (Gr. 4 & up) 5. Write a story based on ONE of the following * Little brothers (or sisters) * Older sisters (or brothers) * A narrow escape * My first memory * I'd like to go back * You won't believe it, but ... (Gr. 4 & up) 6. Think of a friend you have, in or out of school. Tell one story that comes to mind when you think of this friend. (All grades) 7. Think of an event you will want to remember when you are old. Tell about what happened in a way that's so clear that if you read this story again when you are eighty, every detail will come flooding back as if it happened y
  • Pam Thompson on 21 Jun 09
     
    Prompts main image The best prompts are the ones that spark a personal connection between the writer and their ideas. Provided here are some generic writing prompts to get you started, but you will also find some tips on how to write your own prompts. These self-written prompts will offer better starting blocks for your students than the generic prompts because they spring from the immediacy of their lives. Another source for writing prompts is Blowing Away the State Writing Assessment by Jane Bell Keister. Narrative 1. It is 20 years from now. Your name has just been called and you are about to receive an award. Tell the story of how you came to be so successful and win this award. (Gr. 6-12) 2. Rewrite a fairy tale from a different point of view. For instance, * The Three Pigs as the wolf would tell it * Hansel & Gretel as the witch would tell it OR, use any example you like. (Gr. 5-8) 3. Write a story based on one of the following: * Where is it? * Breaking loose * If I had my way ... * Suddenly, in the headlights ... * That noise! * Don't even remind me * The biggest nuisance * Annoying! * At last! (Gr. 5-12) 4. Think of your best or worst day in school. Tell the story of what happened. (Gr. 4 & up) 5. Write a story based on ONE of the following * Little brothers (or sisters) * Older sisters (or brothers) * A narrow escape * My first memory * I'd like to go back * You won't believe it, but ... (Gr. 4 & up) 6. Think of a friend you have, in or out of school. Tell one story that comes to mind when you think of this friend. (All grades) 7. Think of an event you will want to remember when you are old. Tell about what happened in a way that's so clear that if you read this story again when you are eighty, every detail will come flooding back as if it happened y
Tania Sheko

AJET 27(1) Southcott and Crawford (2011) - The intersections of curriculum development: Music, ICT and Australian music education - 0 views

www.ascilite.org.au/...southcott.html

education music technology curriculum australian curriculum national ajet ICT

shared by Tania Sheko on 17 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Recently, in Australia both the National Review of School Music Education and The Australian Curriculum identify the importance of technology in school music education. However, the understanding of music technology, as demonstrated by state and territory curricular guidelines, is limited with technology mostly recognised as a tool. In comparison, contemporary Australian information and computer technology (ICT) curricula appear to have a very different understanding of how technology can enhance learning in the arts, specifically music. Through a comparison of the Australian States and Territories Years 7-10 curricular guidelines this article compares understandings in the two domains - ICT and the arts (particularly music). The different perspectives on the use of technology in music education can be seen as either using technology as a tool to support instruction in drill-like programs or as a platform for collaborative and creative learning that resonates with students in Australian music classrooms.
  • Tania Sheko on 17 Apr 11
     
    The intersections of curriculum development: music, ICT and Australian music education
Rhondda Powling

What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School? - 8 views

www.readwriteweb.com/...biggest_obstacle_to_techno.php

technology education survey m-learning edtech e-learning schools

shared by Rhondda Powling on 30 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The two major obstacles that students say they face at school: filters that stop them from accessing the websites they need for homework and bans on using their own mobile devices (namely cellphones) at school.
  • The majority of parents surveyed - 67% - said that they were willing to buy their children a mobile device for school if the schools allowed it, and parents seemed particularly interested in their children using these devices in order to access online textbooks.
  • there were some interesting differences between what digital skills teachers thought were important and what skills students thought they needed to know.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 30 Apr 11
     
    "We don't often stop and ask students - or their parents - what they think their technology needs are. But the newly-released Speak Up 2010 survey has done just that .. The results are pretty fascinating, as they show great adoption of technology among even very young students, but lingering resistance on the part of school administrators to sanction some of those tools into the classroom."
Roland Gesthuizen

Universities told to adapt or die - 3 views

www.theage.com.au/...apt-or-die-20111025-1mi05.html

TheAge University eLearning technology change learning Australia education

shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 27 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • ''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'.''
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 27 Oct 11
     
    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.
Mitchell Woellner

IT Programmes - What to Teach - 80 views

Jared I have found that the best areas to go into are areas that are applicable to their world. I think you would be hard pushed not to find children that do not have myspace, facbook or any othe...

progammes topics

started by Jared Holden on 11 Jul 08 2 follow-ups, last by Mitchell Woellner on 15 Dec 08
Nigel Coutts

Collaboration & Connectedness the Key to Quality Teaching - 0 views

thelearnersway.net/...ss-the-key-to-quality-teaching

education learning teaching twitter collaboration

shared by Nigel Coutts on 01 Nov 15 - No Cached
  • Nigel Coutts on 01 Nov 15
     
    Most teachers recognise the potential for collaboration between students and the importance of it as a component of a 21st Century education and yet many do not take full advantage of the opportunities they have for collaboration as teachers.
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