Reading Kim Cofino’s recent post and watching the presentations on 21st century learning, I am both daunted and inspired. I feel like I have been in a coma for 10 years, and woken up to a whole new world that I don’t quite understand.
First of all, the more I read, the more I feel out [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 26, 2009
Yoyo-ing about web 2.0
February 25, 2009
It’s not about the technology
What I am getting from reading all these edublogs is this – and others have alluded to it in their blogs, so I will not claim to be an original thinker here – it’s not about the technology. It’s about good teaching practice. It’s about engaging students in the learning process, motivating them towards deeper [...]
February 20, 2009
Turn off the computer?
At the risk of having rotten tomatoes thrown at me, and being ostracised from the blogging community, here is something that occurred to me today in class.
I was lecturing/encouraging/suggesting that my students devote some time over this coming 3-day weekend to revision for their upcoming mock exams. I went further and advised them to turn [...]
February 19, 2009
Classrooms of the future
In thinking about what classroom 2.0 should/could look like in the future, it is worth reading this post. It is long, but the author makes many interesting, valid and thought-provoking suggestions as to what learning might look like in the next decade.
http://friendlyarachnids.edublogs.org/2007/11/17/9-c-1-2020-vision/
As you can see from the date, the post is already 18 months old, [...]
February 17, 2009
Getting the balance right
Life is about balance – balanced diet, balancing work and rest, balancing time spent with each of my children, balancing my desire to try new things in the classroom and my innate reluctance to change what has worked in the past…. you get the idea.
As my head is exploding with all the new things I [...]
February 16, 2009
Biology + technology = biotechnology?
The thing is, having been a biology teacher for some 17 [eek!] years, I have seen a lot of changes in syllabi and curricula with respect to incorporating new aspects of biotechnology. But I am noticing a massive shift, much more recently, in the use, application, relevance and importance of actual information technology in my [...]
February 13, 2009
Procrastination
Hooray! I have found a new method for procrastination – this – blogging! I have a stack of IB Bio labs to mark, but am telling myself that it is more important for me to practise my new technology skills. I have found that I haven’t actually thought about what it is I want to say, but [...]
February 9, 2009
First time blogger
This is something I have been meaning to do for a long time. Now I have finally got around to starting, I can see that it is going to become a way of life ….
