On January 20th we celebrated the 3rd anniversary of the Open and Connected Learning Mooc (etmooc) and launched the Mario Couros Memorial Bursary.
Susan hosted the conversation on Zoom which was a new video conferencing program for most participants.…
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Loading...I have always believed in the power of the network in education to provoke, support and connect. As a user of twitter I have built up a large network around me and now people I have connected with through that have become close colleagues who I talk to regularly about my practice.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...A few years ago in connection to a presentation Samuel was giving, we made a digital booklet of how to find media teachers/students can use without infringing copyright. As I have started working with my students to create media products this year I have wondered how this might look in a lower elementary classroom and what apps/sites can help students use other people’s work honestly.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We are discussing inquiry cycles at school at the moment. We have adopted the Big6 and Super3 school wide for our student Information Seeking Process (ISP) but I think inquiry needs more… more something…
Carol Kuhlthau has a guided inquiry cycle which I really like (I actually started summarising the book before we moved here – pervious post here but know I have bought it on Kindle).…
(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...David Truss presented on shifting learning.
Here are his slides:
Links to his view on learning.
Inquiry
An authentic audience matters
Badges and Games
Learning(s)
1. Failing forward
Failure
Always
Invites
Learning
2.
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I have been hearing a lot about hacked design recently. You may be confused with hacking we associate with computer systems but this requires taking an already design object and changing it to fit another purpose. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Our Inquiry and RE units this term have focussed on the concepts of community and our place within the community. It has been a rich and diverse unit and we are now at the stage of expressing our learnings about what community is and how it can be built.…
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