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OER Teachers - Sharing good sites

April 16, 2009 – 1:05 am

In Brussels working with teachers from around the world on selecting content for learning and looking at the concept of travel well as part of the EUN project funded by the Hewlett Foundation. We are exploring what characteristics allow resources to be used across countries.
Barbara (from the US) showed the http://nobelprize.org/educational_games site. She said that this […]

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21st Century Learning - Curriculum Corporation Conference

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 […]

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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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