30 September, 2008 – 2:41 pm
An anthropological introduction to YouTube is another thought providing vid from Mike Wesch at Kansas State University who previously brought us The Machine is Using Us. This unpacking of the YouTube phenomena is a fascinating study in how this community is built, and looks at issues of authenticity, identity, community, humanity and loneliness. Wesch also […]
30 September, 2008 – 11:05 am
Whenever the discussion of ICT in education becomes academic and theoretical it is heartening and inspiring to see the real difference it can make on the ground - to teachers, to students, to parents, and the broader school community.
This vid from Tomaz Lasic at Belmont City College in Perth demonstrates how the school has […]
26 September, 2008 – 8:12 am
An important story in today’s Sydney Morning Herald by Asher Moses about Facebook, and what happens if Facebook decides to ban you from its service. Uni lecturer, Elmo Keep, found she was banned with no easy way to be reinstated as a user.
‘They’re holding my own data to ransom … at the end of the […]
23 September, 2008 – 3:36 pm
As mentioned in an earlier post, education.au is providing a Strategic ICT Advisory Service to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. On 3 October 2008 we will start our discussions about collaboration in teaching and learning in the CTL Tankette (a mini think-tank) - an online forum in an edna group. […]
23 September, 2008 – 2:47 pm
“horizontal, bouncing, checking and viewing” - not the usual behaviour expected in a library. This interesting January 2008 review - The Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future - from JISC in the UK is looking at the “Google generation” (those born post 1993) and their online information seeking behaviour. For educators and librarians […]
23 September, 2008 – 9:25 am
I wrote a post awhile ago about research undertaken at the University of Melbourne that suggested that the Net Generation, GenY (or whatever you want to call those born after 1980) were not the ‘digital natives’ we’d been lead to believe by some commentators. This 2007 report “The Net Generation are not big users of […]
16 September, 2008 – 2:01 pm
Education.au is providing a Strategic ICT Advisory Service (SICTAS) to the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). I’m lucky enough to be involved in this project which is looking at emerging technologies and their relationship to a range of issues of interest to DEEWR - including collaboration in teaching and learning, […]
2 September, 2008 – 2:59 pm
Education.au, Australia’s national ICT agency owned by all Australia’s ministers of education and training, today formally announced the establishment of its Immersive Learning Unit. Read more here.
1 September, 2008 – 9:40 am
The latest issue of the Journal of Online Education provides a couple of useful articles summarising some of the key issues related to 21st century teaching and learning and introduced me to the concept of adaptational neuroplasty - which seems to suggest that a lifetime of interaction with new technologies is changing the biology of […]
