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Category Archives: learning environments


Schooling in the 21st century

August 13, 2007 – 11:18 am

I have just listened to the latest ABC edpod podcast.
Education consultant David Loader believes that schools have to change or risk losing the attention of the cyber-generation. A former school principal, with over thirty years experience, he challenges schools to reinvent themselves as learning networks, drawing on the resources of the Internet and the wider […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, schools, Australian education, future schooling | Comments (2)

danah boyd podcasts now available

August 8, 2007 – 10:57 am

The podcasts of the educationau seminar in Brisbane on social networking featuring danah boyd are now available at http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar/
The podcasts now available are (in reverse order to the way you will see them on the blog)

danah boyd keynote - part 1
http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar/page/2/
(Click older posts at the bottom of the first page)
danah boyd keynote - part […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, online technologies, eduausem2007, virtual environments, danah boyd, social networking, web 2.0 | Comments (1)

e-Learning environments

July 6, 2007 – 12:50 pm

Elliot Masie caught my attention this morning with an email subject: Can We really e-Learn at our desks? My first reaction was “of course I can” but then I read what he had to say.
While it is clear that people can learn some step by step instructions right at their work desks, can they really […]

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What does innovation in education look like?

July 6, 2007 – 12:32 pm

An email today about innovation in business got me wondering whether the same principles are true in education. And if so, what does innovation look like in an education department/jurisdiction, school, or even the classroom?
At an international meeting in Budapest recently, high-profile academics discussed the most effective ways of triggering and developing innovation. Here are […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, Australian education, creativity, innovation | Comments (0)

the iphone - an early report

July 5, 2007 – 1:18 pm

This is a 5 minute video created by Elliot Masie on July 2 just after he had bought his new iPhone
http://www.learning2007.com/iphone1
He promises that the Masie Centre will be doing more in-depth reports in the coming weeks. His first impressions are interesting.
I currently am subscribed to an email service from the Masie Center (http://www.masie.com/)
It called TRENDS […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, teaching and learning, online technologies, lifelong learning | Comments (0)

Wishing I could have been there..

July 5, 2007 – 10:13 am

What almost seems like a century ago, I attended NECC 2001 in Chicago. It had 14,000 attendees and the trade show alone provide a terrific opportunity to see what is happening in educational technology. NECC 2007 has just happened in Atlanta. The key theme this year was the need to produce a generation of students […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, education standards | Comments (0)

Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers

June 7, 2007 – 5:19 pm

Bryn Jones pointed me to this site through one of his occasional postings on his blog at http://brynjones.edublogs.org/feed/
Inspired talks has a wonderful range of speakers, videos to watch.  See http://www.ted.com/index.php/
The one that Bryn pointed to was Sir Ken Robinson who ‘makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, teaching and learning, lifelong learning, professional learning, blogs, Ken Robinson, Jimmy Wales, creativity | Comments (1)

Establishing your online presence(s)

May 28, 2007 – 1:50 pm

I am interested in how people resolve the need for more than one online presence. As of last Saturday I now blog in 4 places. How did that come about? Well, apart from my life here at education.au limited I also participate in a professional association, CEGSA (Computers in Education Group of South Australia) and […]

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Dynamics in an online community-2 - trolls, pests etc

May 21, 2007 – 4:21 pm

Of course one of the aspects of online community dynamics that we have to consider are the factors that inhibit their functioning.
For that reason “How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community” available at http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=199600005 makes interesting reading.
In order to ensure that people understand the requirements, or know there are netiquette requirements, of […]

By Kerrie Smith | Also posted in Educationau, communication tools, Australian education, professional learning, virtual environments, netiquette | Comments (1)

More on 3D environments

April 16, 2007 – 11:27 am

Some useful links that have emerged today:
Judy O’Connell has a posting Second Life Classroom - Not School, Not Home in which she talks about the difficulties in getting ’system’ colleagues to take 3D Virtual Worlds seriously. Discussion is emerging but is the reluctance to think about it all linked to the fact that everything, even […]

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