Daniel Owen (Branch Manager, Professional Learning), opened the symposium describing how the DER is based in an economic and social inclusion agenda and how this provided strong support from governments for financial backing.
There are five elements ;
National Secondary School Computer Fund
Broadband Infrastructure, Fibre to schools - Connecting schools.
Online Curriculum Content
Portals for Parents
Assistance for schools in the deployment […]
The new Rudd government have said they will mandate ISP’s to provide a ‘clean’ feed to everyone is Australia…that is one which will make children safe from pornography and violence. There is much debate in the media and blogosphere about the censorship issue.
However, in education, we have been grappling with the ‘to filter’ or ‘not […]
Having just returned from Europe where I sat on a review panel for the European Commission, attended the GENIE(Global Exchange Network of ICT Educators) and EMINENT conference, and met with officials in England, Scotland and Ireland, I am left with the following impressions of the challenges we face in 2008.
Scaling change - Most countries around […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have had sometime to reflect on the recent visit from the UK of Owen Lynch and his colleagues from Ireland, Jimmy Stewart and Tom McMullan. We visited some schools in NSW and Victoria. In particular we visited Belmore South Primary School on the fringe of inner city Sydney. As their website says, ‘we are […]
