Posted in Tech Advancement on May 9th, 2008 1 Comment »
A publication by the Australian Communications and Media Authority identifies Australian families with children as ‘media rich’. Our children, for the most part have access to “multiple communications devices”
Some statistics provided are:
Most families with children aged 8 – 17 have three or more televisions in their home and three or more mobile phones.
98% have computers [...]
Posted in Education, Education Reform, Tech Advancement on May 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
The ’Digital Natives’ of the 21st Century present a somewhat stark yet enlightening message in this video. Engage them using technology “whatever, whenever, wherever”. Their demands are simple, yet their plight is fearful to many teachers who have simply got lost in this technological world.
One child mentions ”At least once a week 14% of my teachers let me create [...]
Posted in Tech Advancement on Apr 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m disgusted by the fact that a company is creating bullet-proof backpacks in order to protect children from school shootings in America.
The statistics published on mychildspack.com, the company creating this new backpack claim that on average there is one school shooting incident per week since 1999 with 229 deaths 422 injuries. They sound a little exaggerated [...]
Posted in Tech Advancement on Apr 10th, 2008 No Comments »
Intel makes a habit of training up teachers in the art of using technology and so far have trained between 4.5 and 5 million teachers around the world says Intel’s Chairman Craig Barrett on BBC article “Bridging Africa’s digital divide”
He, like myself maintains that technology is simply a tool, and that the key to classroom [...]
Posted in Education Reform, Tech Advancement on Apr 4th, 2008 No Comments »
Lia Timson reports on how the digital age is changing teaching in her article ‘A different class’ published in the Sydney Morning Herald on April 3, 2008.
She writes how “students will be able to produce work at school, access it from home and share their reports with parents, who will also have electronic contact with [...]
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 [...]
