Yesterday Chris Betcher, he of http://betch.edublogs.org/, was a keynote speaker at the CEGSA conference. The conference theme is Learning is a Conversation, and Chris made some really interesting points that you might like to think about.
Learning in the 21st century is social.
Learning happens through our conversations.
The boundaries to where we have our conversations have […]
Check the video The Voices of Learning at http://www.learning2008.com/
One of the speakers, Don Tapscott, says, when asked what they were doing online, people were given 4 choices:
Working
Learning
Collaborating
or having fun?
The people being asked the question said the choices weren’t real - because they were all one and the same thing.
So what do you when you are […]
In the last couple of days I have been enjoying the postings over on The Bamboo Project blog as Michele Martin grapples with ideas about how as individuals incorporate the new media tools in our own personal learning environment. Some of us have really been among the early adopters, although in many senses still digital […]
One of the nice things about being back at work at this time of the year in Australia, before schools, Unis and TAFEs resume, is that I get to look a bit more closely at some of the information coming across my desk, read those incoming blogs a bit more assiduously, and even follow up some […]
In August 1995 Lindy McKeown, on behalf of the oz-TeacherNet Project at Queensland University of Technology, announced a new service for Australian teachers - an email discussion list to be called oz-teachers.
The oz-teachers list has been established in response to numerous requests for a national list to collect Australian teachers in one ‘place’ and to […]
One of the things that I can say about blogs is that I read many more of them now than I did 12 months ago. There are a number of blogs that I monitor via an RSS reader. I have one running on my computer at work, and another on my computer at home. I […]
Those who know me personally will know that one of my passions is crime/mystery fiction. I’m a reader not a writer.
Just recently I finished reading FIREWALL by Henning Mankell. It was written in 1997, set in Sweden, and in the opening pages a man drops dead at 11pm just after he’s checked his bank account balance […]
