November 10, 2008 – 9:13 am
Today and tomorrow I am attending the CC conference in Melbourne. Key points made today include : Interesting video on new teachers and their initial view about good teachers having ‘good control’ and ‘lining up kids outside of the classroom’. They also talked about engaging with the kids, but it was very surpising to hear […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
