I am supposed to be reflecting on my aims for the SUNY technology in education course that’s just coming to an end. When I look back at my original aims, and what I hoped to learn, here’s what I wrote:
How to use blogging/podcasting in the class room
How to use google docs effectively
How to be more [...]
It’s been a while since I attended a regional conference, and having recently returned from ETC 09 in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysian Borneo, I am unsure why. I was left with a very positive impression and enjoyed the whole experience. Here are a few of the things I learned, or relearned.
My fellow teachers are an amazing [...]
My latest reading has been to do with the issue of cellphones in schools. There is a strong argument that allowing them into class is a major distraction, and that they should be banned. There is an equally strong case for not only allowing them into class, but incorporating their use in lessons. I did [...]
Thanks to Kris for prompting this post….
Reading this article by Marc Prensky made me think about what school is for. The premise is that students today are so used to having a variety of stimuli coming at them, they are bored in school where teachers don’t engage them sufficiently in the lessons. [He makes another point [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
