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My brief, to present at a Year 11 conference about online tools, has accentuated, in my mind, how far away we are from providing the Personal Learning Environment (PLE) at school students need in a networked society. Your input, via comments at a previous blog post, twitter and yammer proved invaluable but also challenging, when one considers the [...]
Filed under: eLearning, Pedagogy, Professional development, Web 2.0 | Tagged: DERNSW, PLE, Prezi, reflection | 4 Comments »
Here are the best answers you are likely to read, compiled by the Edge Foundation at their World Question Centre, to this important question. The following passage, from Tim O’Reilly‘s musings on the question, Pattern Recognition, made me reflect about the challenges of staying ‘educated’ and being and ‘educator’ in our ever-shifting culture: “It used to be the case that there was [...]
Filed under: education, Globalization, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 | Tagged: change, internet, reflection | 10 Comments »
What was it like at your school? Were you a smart kid? Were the classes streamed/graded or mixed ability or some combination of both? How did your teachers teach, engage and stimulate interest in the topic or activities? What was the best thing about the way you were taught at school? What was the worst? [...]
Filed under: education, Professional development | Tagged: Board of Studies, constructivism, curriculum, Digital Revolution, equity, maths, mixed ability, reflection, values | 3 Comments »
