Alan Hird, Director, Professional Learning Team at the Department of Education, Employment, and workplace relations (DEEWR) spoke about the relationships that have been developed to govern the DER. He spoke particularly about the Australian ICT in Education Committee (AICTEC) which is taking responsibility for determining the priorities for the spend of the DER. AICTEC is establishing […]
education.au is holding a national symposium on e-portfolios today. We have just seen four presentations alluding to the fact that e-portfolios at an institution level are already used significantly. However, as Jerry Leeson pointed out, if the web is shifting to a more learner centred mode, then the e-portfolio world is very complex from a […]
Mark Pesce is the keynote for the ACER/education.au symposium. He speaks of the generation gap between those wacky kids and those well meaning adults. He has now made his speech available on video and in text.
In my presentation I show a video of people building a plane while they are flying the plane. Its a nice metaphor for what we have been doing for sometime. We seem to be making it up as we go along. That seems appropriate given the fast pace at which the technology and the world is […]
I have been reflecting on Mark Pesce’s talk where he speaks of ‘Those Wacky Kids’ and the ‘mutants’ , that is us, and how we need to bridge the generational gap. Fundamentally, kids get engaged in learning when their intrinsic motivation is high. So what sparks intrinsic motivation? Learning that relates to life and arouse […]
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 […]
