I really dont like pebble pad decided to do much of the
work the old fashioned way, using paper and note books. I have been using
blogger and love the way in which it works. This...is. clunky. Oh well hope
fully all will be ok.
Doug Ashley 2013 stimulus paper- participants forum.NMC Horizon report 2012
Yesterday My boss thrust this in my hand, he had many copies it was from an Edmund Rice Deputy principles conference, he knew it was an area wher had an opinion and he wanted feedback.
Key points:
• The shift towards online, hybrid and collaborative models.
• The challenge to our role of educators
• The increasingly ubiquitous mobile online device used by students
• The need for more challenge based and active learning
• The demand for personalised learning that our current technology and practices cannot accommodate
• Institutional barriers
• The incorporation of real life experiences
My response is yes, yes and yes. At the moment we do not the infrastructure or policy to actually fulfil this ideal.
• The ICT committee is self serving with an emperors new clothes like way of working
• The technical officer in charge is a gatekeeper of knowledge that only he understands, all problems are too big for us mere mortals to understand, in his absence subordinates do not have the knowledge or his trust to put things right in the event of a problem.
• We have a wireless network that is not activated to allow anything but a few laptops to access it. The students crash it by the volume of traffic trying log on.
• Network bandwidth is reduced by the amount of access to online media by staff during the teaching day.
• The purchase of tablets or mobile devices by staff are not supported on the network.
• We have content keeper it blocks content, anything with content not seen to be viable is blocked with a red screen. Students get around this by proxy servers, students accessing prohibited content where caught have their access privileges removed for a week. Teachers on the other hand have to request access on a case by case basis.
• It feels as if we are banning large books because our desks are too small to hold them. It’s as if we should infringe copyright by downloading and saving online content, instead of instant access on you tube that will not infringe copyright.
Yes we are addressing this; however, it has taken a new director of teaching and learning to pull back the curtain on the wizard of Oz.
If we make policy as a school that is democratic then perhaps we will be able to achieve in the bigger picture prizes.
1. My students logging on to my digital tutorial
2. staff and students logging on with their own digital devices
3. the interaction with social media technology to enhance learning strategies. There is a NSW Board of Studies guidelines on this, why can’t we look at them.
4. This could be a democratic technology and engagement tool for both students and staff. We should not be scared. It’s a tool not all tools are bad. Toasters don’t kill toast, People kill toast.
We are in the process of amending this situation; I hope it comes to fruition.
Twenty-first century learning; communities, interaction and ubiquitous computing. 2006 Leh, Kouba Davis
• The ides that we are all learners, experts and novices, just like when I taught myself web design, and students last year taught them selves as well me how to make smart online applications in graphics.
• Jonassen et al. 2003, using many memories is more dynamic than one, the group achieves more potently as a whole.
• Norris and Soloway 2004 believe every student should have their own hand held device.
• Distance no longer the obstacle,
• There are five leaner communities, 1 learner content, 2 learner teacher, 3 learner learner. 4 larner interface, 5 learner community
Doug Ashley 2013 stimulus paper- participants forum.NMC Horizon report 2012
Yesterday My boss thrust this in my hand, he had many copies it was from an Edmund Rice Deputy principles conference, he knew it was an area wher had an opinion and he wanted feedback.
Key points:
• The shift towards online, hybrid and collaborative models.
• The challenge to our role of educators
• The increasingly ubiquitous mobile online device used by students
• The need for more challenge based and active learning
• The demand for personalised learning that our current technology and practices cannot accommodate
• Institutional barriers
• The incorporation of real life experiences
My response is yes, yes and yes. At the moment we do not the infrastructure or policy to actually fulfil this ideal.
• The ICT committee is self serving with an emperors new clothes like way of working
• The technical officer in charge is a gatekeeper of knowledge that only he understands, all problems are too big for us mere mortals to understand, in his absence subordinates do not have the knowledge or his trust to put things right in the event of a problem.
• We have a wireless network that is not activated to allow anything but a few laptops to access it. The students crash it by the volume of traffic trying log on.
• Network bandwidth is reduced by the amount of access to online media by staff during the teaching day.
• The purchase of tablets or mobile devices by staff are not supported on the network.
• We have content keeper it blocks content, anything with content not seen to be viable is blocked with a red screen. Students get around this by proxy servers, students accessing prohibited content where caught have their access privileges removed for a week. Teachers on the other hand have to request access on a case by case basis.
• It feels as if we are banning large books because our desks are too small to hold them. It’s as if we should infringe copyright by downloading and saving online content, instead of instant access on you tube that will not infringe copyright.
Yes we are addressing this; however, it has taken a new director of teaching and learning to pull back the curtain on the wizard of Oz.
If we make policy as a school that is democratic then perhaps we will be able to achieve in the bigger picture prizes.
1. My students logging on to my digital tutorial
2. staff and students logging on with their own digital devices
3. the interaction with social media technology to enhance learning strategies. There is a NSW Board of Studies guidelines on this, why can’t we look at them.
4. This could be a democratic technology and engagement tool for both students and staff. We should not be scared. It’s a tool not all tools are bad. Toasters don’t kill toast, People kill toast.
We are in the process of amending this situation; I hope it comes to fruition.
Twenty-first century learning; communities, interaction and ubiquitous computing. 2006 Leh, Kouba Davis
• The ides that we are all learners, experts and novices, just like when I taught myself web design, and students last year taught them selves as well me how to make smart online applications in graphics.
• Jonassen et al. 2003, using many memories is more dynamic than one, the group achieves more potently as a whole.
• Norris and Soloway 2004 believe every student should have their own hand held device.
• Distance no longer the obstacle,
• There are five leaner communities, 1 learner content, 2 learner teacher, 3 learner learner. 4 larner interface, 5 learner community
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