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Monthly Archives: November 2007

We watched TV….they make TV!!

Laurence Lessig’s vodcast about the read/write web is a powerful argument for common sense and the law!!

Lessig uses three stories about 100 year old concepts which made sense 100 years ago, but don’t make sense now. And when our kids re-mix using technology that was not available to those who made copyright laws many years […]

21st century curriculum_21st century schools

The conference welcome by Susan Mann reinforced my view that teachers are important but we are facing quite different and complex issues for which we can rely on the past, but we must not resist the new ways of today’s world
David Puttnam reminded us, based on his experience, that 95% of students have poor experiences at […]

Thinkfinity - Literacy for the 21st Century

I came across this site Thinkfinity.org today which has been set up by the Verizon Foundation in the US. My curiosity stemmed from the very narrow debate of literacy in Australia to read/write and think, to a rich world in which technology opens up many more literacy options and a brave new world for our learners to […]