In early October my school had a visit from Google Expeditions. I’d been contacted to see if I would be interested and jumped at the chance.
Google Expeditions are a 3D VR ‘experience’ using google cardboard. I’d tried a few mobile apps using cardboard before but not in a classroom setting.…
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At the weekend during pedagoo muckle there was a mini TeachMeet. Everyones name was in a bowel and there was a series of random 2 minute talks. I though I was prepared with this tip. In the event I was quite glad I didn’t get picked all the people who got picked had two minutes of great ideas, as opposed to a wee tip.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...it is seldom about technology designers’ a priori plans for a technology, and more about users’ unexpected practices with it. That, to me, is the most fascinating and useful basis of research inquiry.
via Brief statement on ‘Digital Wisdom’ | Ibrars space.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Last year I was lucky enough to be involved with VCAA in trialling the new Digital Technologies Curriculum in the primary school. The AusVELS‘ version of the Australian Curriculum is set to be released later in the year and will be the first time we have seen computer science in the primary curriculum. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...At this time of year I love reading everyone’s wrap up of the previous year. Highlight, lowlight, best of. I am not usually one to write that sort of thing, and if you look back over my year of blogging I haven’t been one to write much at all.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This morning I read this article by recent graduate Johanna O’Farrell in The Age. Of course any article which opens with “Why your schools are failing your children: a teacher tells” piqued my interest. I have always advocated for teachers telling their stories in our media rather than politicians but this one had my heart rate rising as she spoke of schools tossing aside “any sort of rigour, routine or repetition when it comes to classroom learning.”…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...On Thursday and Friday this week I was lucky enough to run two workshops at the PLE Conference held at Monash University. The PLE Conference is a two day conference held in two cities, Melbourne and Berlin. This year’s program, Personal Learning Environments: Learning and Diversity in the Cities of the Future, was full of presentations looking at the use of PLEs in education and examined the use of technology enhanced learning.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This week sees the end of the government supported Ultranet (The Victorian Learning Management System) and tonight I looked back at the blog post I wrote on the 6th of August 2011, just days before it was openly released to all Victorian teachers.…
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