Posted in Education Reform, Tech Advancement on Mar 20th, 2008 1 Comment »
Jamie McKenzie’s article ‘Stuffing Technology into the Curriculum’ accuses the Australian and State Governments of jumping into the deep end by pushing “technology intergration onto classroom teachers without first gathering evidence that this was a worthwhile endeavor [sic]”
I think it’s proven that it has been a worthwhile endeavour, but as McKenzie continues in saying, teachers [...]
Posted in Tech Advancement on Mar 18th, 2008 No Comments »
The primary school classroom consisted of newly-introduced whiteboards, computers with awkwardly oversized monitors, pens, papers, books, a televsion, a video player if lucky and not much else. How scary to think that was only 8 years ago, a time when only the absolute wealthiest of children had phones.
Now Marc Prensky prophesises the future of learning [...]
Posted in Education Reform on Mar 16th, 2008 No Comments »
In fellow blogger, Cathie’s post Changing Attitudes Towards Learning she not only discusses how modern day teachers have started to “integrate technology into their everyday lessons” but also how it is “important that we give children the tools and knowledge needed to keep pace with this rapidly developing society.”
In responding to her post, I thought that this knowledge that [...]
Posted in Blogging, e-Safety on Mar 14th, 2008 2 Comments »
After my previous rant, I thought I would find out what the big chief’s at Microsoft have to say about blogging safely and this is what I found…
According to studies, and published on Microsoft, half of all blogs today are written by teenagers with 2 out of 3 providing age, 3 out of 5 revealing [...]
Posted in Blogging, e-Safety on Mar 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I think every teacher and parents’ greatest concern would be with child safety when online. The privacy of a child is paramount to any school setting along with protection from improper material or people. This is my greatest concern with podcasting, vodcasting and blogging – protecting the privacy of the children whom I have a [...]
Posted in Blogging on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
The hardest thing with teaching is finding time to prepare for upcomming classes, this coupled with marking, school functions, extra-curricular commitments, and in many instances the running of ones own family can raise the question ‘how can we find the time to work on encorporating technology into our lessons?’
The great thing about technology, and in [...]
Posted in Education Reform on Mar 8th, 2008 No Comments »
When you look at your kids do you see them as being native to India, China, Australia, Canada, England? Have you ever looked at them as being ’Digital Natives’ ?
Well, Marc Prensky delivered a Speech to the Consortium for School Networking in 2004 where he defined the modern day child as a ‘digital native’ whose differing formative experiences [...]
Posted in Education Reform on Mar 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
I happened upon a new (and more child friendly) rendition of the Spice Girls hit ‘If you wanna be my lover’ and thought I’d share it.
Download Video: Posted by gtrees at TeacherTube.com.
Probably what struck me most was these two lines:
“If you wanna be my teacher, you’ve got to be up to date – with the [...]
