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Mainly school sugestions for using Twitter but some could be adapted.

Wiki to support the use of technology to create views of a community thought.

WHAT: Webinar - The 'flipped classroom' WHEN: Wednesday, 8 June 2011 at 5:00:00 p.m. NZST. WHERE: https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/flippedclassroom [enter as a guest]

"After preparing their papers, students attached an interactive cover sheet on which they raised questions about the paper they had just completed, thereby identifying the specific areas for feedback."

Hey, I worked with Sue Bloxham at St Martins. She's a great teacher in academic development. I think the 2nd last comment is useful too. The first ones suggest this process will be too hard for students. But we want them to be critical thinkers and they need to make that analysis of their own work too so provide the teaching to support them.

We need pokens!

"To meet the goal of "preparing people for an ever-changing world", instructional programs need to apply strategies that focus on the development of critical thinking, problem solving, research, and lifelong learning. Those goals require a sociocultural approach to instruction emphasizing learning from experience and discourse. Sociocultural instructional designers question the applicability of traditional ID models because their molecular approach focuses on controlling the learner and environment, which often leads to inert knowledge. This article develops a sociocultural ID model and compares views of learning, roles of learners and teachers, instructional strategies, and the use of tools with the traditional ID approach."

A new site developed by e-cast which seems to be setting itself as a forum for technology (and education?) debates.

Includes a good video on the role of twitter as a search engine and a live stream of happenings.

Open shared local networks in a box. Useful for collaboration and when you don't need the internet getting in the way.

I had a look and think we could do. Might need Rob to do some soldering.

Here's our justification, it turns out "Darts built the device, originally called Freedrop, as an easy way to share files with his students in class. "I was looking for a device that would allow users in the same physical space to easily share files,' he says. It was a hit, but he soon found that his students had other sharing plans. 'Students started sharing non-class related materials, their favorite albums and so on.'"

Review of the Asus tablet running Android - looks good and up with the iPad.

Anyone who plans to enable Google+ features on their Google Apps account for work or school should make sure to note the privacy policy before proceeding.

I think that this is useful to help inform senior leadership. We might 'know' or agree with a lot of this stuff but getting engagement at higher levels may well be helped by Tony's well laid out post.

Just in time, personalised feedback - using Twitter

impact of technology and why this era is unique in terms of the affordances of technology

Critique of telling kids to have a growth mindset.