If you can’t make it to Sydney to participate in the “Mind over Matter” seminar with Dr. Martin Westwell — find out how technology is affecting our brains by joining me online, right here, from 8:45 am AEST (go here to find the time in your city).
I’ll be using a tool called “Cover it Live” and will be summarising the presentations via text as well as injecting images, slides and links on the fly. You can join in by commenting as the blogging progresses and, if you have questions during the Q&A time, you can post them here and I’ll ask them for you.
There will be breaks at 10:30am to 11am, noon to 1pm, and 2:30pm to 3pm. The day wraps up at 4pm. I’ll endeavour to post count down timers — but we all know that technology can go astray.
As a backup, I’ll use Twitter (http://twitter.com/kerryank) and am available on Skype - kerryjskype - but check here first for announcements.
The tags for blogs, photos, flickring, etc. are mind_matter_sem and eduauseminars.
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creative people don’t always fit in well in the bureaucracy
I found this a good read on basic neurophysiology
Koch, Christof: The Quest for Consciousness - A Neurobiological Approach,
Roberts and Company, Colorado 2004
Thank you edu.au for an outstanding morning and providing these tools for sharing. Martin’s messages were very timely as we dialogue around the national curriculum but also to remind us that it is the quality of the teacher that matters and their capacity to deploy web2.0 tools to enhance the fundamental relationships which impact on learning.
It appears to me that it would be possible to embed Executive Functions into a national curriculum; many states have worked to utilise the qualtiy teaching frameworks derived from the QLD productive pedagogies, but designing an assessment regime which will value these processes will be the challenge.
Melanie, I think you have something there. Bureacracies are so locked into policies and procedures that their people don’t always feel free to brainstorm or think creatively. Martin suggests that in the first step of Imagination people should be set free — then the ideas can be analysed in the second stage. But if you are conditioned NOT to think outside a very defined box, it would take some time to get outside of it. Cheers, Kerry
Thanks for the link Rob — will definitely be checking that out. I’ve been a fan of de Bono for years — this takes it to the next level! KerryJ
Just reading the replay. Very slick. Kudos.
Maybe have the audio recording underneath?
a la http://wikipediaweekly.org/
Just so’s we leave behind a tidy record.
(gotta keep the TL’s happy)
See, I’m learning to think inside the professional boxes.
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[…] During the day, for those unable to attend in the flesh, the event was covered by a “live blog” using CoverItLive. The archive of the live blog is now available here. It consists of KerryJ reporting on what Martin was saying, access to most of the slides that were being shown, and “conversation” from people who were monitoring the live blog. There are 3 sessions to read, covering an 8 hour period. Your comments on the content and the tool we used would be very welcome. You can comment on the original page where the archive is, or here. […]
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