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Monthly Archives: March 2008

edna creating and supporting communities

31 March, 2008 – 11:20 am

For the last 10 years, education.au has been supporting the development of online community spaces for the education and training community through the edna project. For those of you who aren’t aware, education.au is a not for profit ICT agency owned by all Australia’s ministers for education and training. And the edna project is collaboratively […]

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What’s big in ICT?

18 March, 2008 – 8:03 am

education.au has been doing some work with the Cunningham Library at ACER - the library manages ATED (Australian Thesaurus of Educational Descriptors). education.au has used ATED for some years as one of the thesauri it uses to catalogue content for the edna resource database. No thesaurus covers every eventuality, so we use a number to […]

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Pedagogy(ical) interoperability

14 March, 2008 – 10:17 am

The concept of interoperability is generally applied to moving between technologies or the ability to shift data between datasets because of understandings about how the data is structured.
But how about if we think about interoperability in relation to pedagogy?
One of our education challenges is pedagogy-driven usage of ICT.  In conversations with Rob Fitzgerald at the […]

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Continuous partial attention

12 March, 2008 – 8:55 am

Anyone who has young children understands the concept of ‘continuous partial attention’. While cooking, writing the great Australian novel, preparing lectures, driving, marking homework or socialising, one part of a parent’s brain is still attending to the location, activities, noise (or lack of it) of their various spawns of Satan .
This concept of ‘continuous […]

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