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Monthly Archives: October 2007

Grown up a Gen Y

October 12, 2007 – 9:45 am

Michael Furdyk, Co-founder and Director of Technology for TakingITGlobal.org, spoke at the ACEL conference today about his own experience of growing up a Gen Y over the past 10 years.
Michael has a wealth of interesting experiences like being able to work on his internet business as part of his school prgram and this led to […]

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Learning is what the learner wants to learn!!

October 11, 2007 – 8:40 am

I am at the ACEL conference in Sydney today listening to Pete Senge, Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The conference theme is about re-imaginging schooling.
From Wikipedia
School education occurs at a very important time…when kids are very open and transformative. However, the current insitutionalised learning, based on the industrial model very quickly transforms students into conforming […]

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The Internet has shifted the authority of text - participatory media

October 2, 2007 – 10:15 am

Howard Rheingold spoke today about the new critical literacy required by students because the function that in the past resided with people in authority (eg the librarian) has shifted to search engines…….but the results are not always accurate and the sources are not necessarily authorative.

A fear that critical literacy might incite radicalised students rather than students […]

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