Wireless login today Login: sct Password: Teacher1 I still feel so far behind the curve. I sort of envy those teachers who just don't care about all this stuff. We still have teachers here who feel that usingis a huge stretch. Teacher comment 'Getting the balance right between intuitive experimentation and conscious deliberation is vital. Think too little and you may be stuck with bad habits. Think too much and you may become paralyzed with self consciousness. Guy Claxton 'Wise Up The pace of change is a bit overwhelming and I feel like no matter how quickly I learn new things there are more left to learn (and the sheer number is increasing exponentially). Teacher comment It's also getting much harder to work out what will work with my curriculum, the technology I have available, and the way my students learn. Teacher comment 'We should turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.' John Holt 'All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.' John Dewey I've been there and I stay there every day as I see schools with 1:1 laptops and tablets -- we can't do that due to money -- we're doing our best. Teacher comment I am not seeing too many left who are pulling out the same plans this week that they have used for the past 10 years. For some, learning how to useor PowerPoint is a big step. I love helping them with that stuff. Teacher Leader comment 'Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive. Peter Bloc Everything's always breaking down! Teacher comment You have passwords to remember everywhere. Teacher comment I want to use the technology, but I am the only one here in our department and no one I know personally has ever done this before. In fact, I am the only one in my entire school as far as I can tell. It's a scary place to be Teacher comment Do we realize that Linden dollars (the money in Second Life) may perhaps be our first truly global currency? (It is 250L$ to every $1 of US currency.) I have no idea how we keep up. It was easier years ago to just take out the good old textbook and start with Chapter 1. Teacher comment In our school, it is a situation where teacher enthusiasm and keeness to adopt new technology is way ahead of the infrastructure. A computer lab has to be booked a term in advance. Teacher comment I am one of the early adopters (although not at the very beginning of that scale) and love being able to share my mistakes with my fellow teachers when they attempt the things I have tried. Teacher comment I have a read a ton of stuff and searched lots of sites, but I can't find what I need. Teacher comment NZ Curriculum E-learning and pedagogy Information and communication technology (ICT) has a major impact on the world in which young people live. Similarly, e-learning (that is, learning supported by or facilitated by ICT) has considerable potential to support the teaching approaches outlined in the above section (the pedagogies). For instance, e-learning may: * assist the making of connections by enabling students to enter and explore new learning environments, overcoming barriers of distance and time * facilitate shared learning by enabling students to join or create communities of learners that extend well beyond the classroom * assist in the creation of supportive learning environments by offering resources that take account of individual, cultural, or developmental differences enhance opportunities to learn by offering students virtual experiences and tools that save them time, allowing them to take their learning further NZ Curriculum Schools should explore not only how ICT can supplement traditional ways of teaching but also how it can open up new and different ways of learning. Students are born with a powerful desire to learn. Everything we do as parents and teachers must ensure that this powerful desire is kept alive. If there were to be one thing to be continually assessed it would be this desire... too many students leave with little to show for their time at school. Too many leave alienated and powerless Bruce Hammonds The Beginning Login: sct Password: Teacher1 Web 2.0 the audience is taking to the stage That matters because the more ideas are shared the more they grow, change and multiply, and that process is the ultimate source of our creativity, innovation and well being. We will look back on this decade to come as a period of unparalleled social creativity a time when we sought to devise new ways to work together to be more democratic, creative and innovative, potentially on a vast scale.d/ChapterOne.pdf Web 2.0 Mass publishing - blogs, wikis, flicker, pod casts Social networking - Web sites not isolated- feeds, RSS Advertisers paradise Collaborative Iterative Free Easy Web 2.0 Applications MySpace del.icio.us twitter wikipedia youtube itunesu flickr google scholar rss reader voicethread second life google docs blogger bubblus google streetview avatars com/ Google Street View As a homesick Aucklander, I enjoyed strolling down Queen Street checking out the shops and flying down Symonds Street to check out the changes at the Uni quad. My old house in Balmoral Road exists on the Satellite image but has somehow missed the camera (guess there was too much traffic to take any photos). The Hindu Temple nearby seems to have swallowed up the image space anyway so my lil pagman cant get any closer! Thanks to this technology, I get to see places in NZ my friends left for Auckland to live in (pokey towns with lots of grass, a few houses and little else). My one gripe if any is that I can't take short cuts. I was in the Auckland Domain and had to walk on the roads- who does that?! And window shopping is impossible - but maybe that will be in the update! And. yes there's recycling on my lawn. Lots of Central Auckland was imaged on rubbish day too so I'm in good company! Aklr In Exile (Napier) nzherald opinion Login: sct Password: Teacher1 google docs So what does this practically mean? and teachers still foster the offline experiences planning discussion art drama collaborative behaviours peer reviewing relating to present day events Issues Some BIG questions around Web 2.0 Truth Wikis edited by peers entire world can edit Wikipedia important thing to teach is critical thinking- truth is relative Quality Yet the orgy of user created content the web has attracted, might also rob us of high quality journalism and literature, film and music, as the institutions that train and employ professionals find their economic foundations eaten away. What is friendship? What is reality? Is the web heading toward anarchy?...an anything goes culture increasingly beyond central control We will look back on this decade as a period of unparalleled social creativity a time when we sought to devise new ways to work together to be more democratic, creative and innovative, potentially on a vast scale. The web could amplify our combined intelligence if only we can find ways to use it to work creatively together. If not, it could lead to anarchy. Does the web REALLY matter? The Web matters because it allows more people to share ideas with more people in more ways. In reality creativity has always been a highly collaborative, cumulative and social activity in which people with different skills, points of view and insights, share and develop ideas together. Butin educationas teachers why is our adoption of Web 2.0 sooooo slow? because I don't think you can effectively engage in this agenda in the abstract, you have to be an active participant. This means that educators have to blog, use wikis, have a facebook page, use del.icio.ous and the like. Bradley Shoebottom, Educator and Thinker- Edublog not a priority but until teachers learning and growth is truly made a priority within our schools, I don't think we will make the progress we need to achieve. We need leaders that make this happen. SCTs must be these leaders .to nurture a reflective culture of learning and growing around Web 2.0 in our schools This is the beginning