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The Best of 1:1 Advice

May 31, 2009 by darcymoore

Here’s the cream of the 100s of replies from my PLN, you folks, for a 4 minute - ‘best of 1: 1′ laptop suggestions - video.

Posted in Professional development, Twitter, eLearning, education, laptops | Tagged 1:1, DERNSW, Digital Revolution laptops, L4L, PLN | 7 Comments

7 Responses

on May 31, 2009 at 10:20 pm mrborgert

Great! Hope you don’t mind if I send it on!
on May 31, 2009 at 10:24 pm darcymoore

This took me ages to make so someone had better get some use – send it on!
on May 31, 2009 at 11:28 pm jennylu

Great effort Darcy. A really useful video for all of those schools facing the onslaught of a 1:1 environment with the digital revolution that’s coming their way. I’m sure many will find this very handy for use in a staff meeting.
on June 1, 2009 at 4:23 pm Tomaz Lasic

Good collection mate, well done.

I have to say that some of it is a bit cheesy eg. things like ‘teaching is dead, long live learning’ contextual nonsense that gets peddled around unreflectively just because some edu A-lister uttered it.

For my 20c, I am getting a little tired of the flowery use of ‘collaboration, connection, creativity etc lingo. You know that some of two world’s smartest, most creative and connected people collaboratively used the cutting edge technology to … make a nuclear bomb?

(Use of) tech must always be tempered with a question – who benefits (loses out)? Tech ain’t a panacea, nothing is.

Kids (will) like and value school if it offers something special, something they can’t necessarily do at home or other places or with someone else. Technology is nothing terribly special (to most of them, not all) nor it should be, we should sometimes get off our ed-tech high horse

But what is special are the stories, the wonder, clever interpretations of the world beyond the kids’ experiences that good teachers have provided since the cave times (and they used the latest technology too – chalk or a book was once called a fad too and resisted!)

That is where clever use of technology helps the most (plus the potential of tech to be a great social leveller).

Let’s not fall for ‘technolust’ per se. It is not fair to ‘dump’ tech on teachers. It is not fair of teachers to ignore tech either – it ain’t a ‘fad’ going away any time soon.

Showing your staff that ‘teaching is dead’ probably isn’t going to do as much as the question ‘what can technology do for me and my students?’

Capture their imagination then ask them to have the best interest of the kids they teach in mind when deciding whether to use tech or not – as a parent of a child with future ahead of them perhaps.

Scuse the ramble, hope I make sense

Cheers & good job!

Tomaz
on June 1, 2009 at 9:42 pm darcymoore

Thanks Simon, Jenny and Tomaz.

I think my purpose behind making this slideshow video of tweets from my PLN was to get some reflection and thinking going. My blog has had more hits in the last 36 hours than I would usually have in a month.

We have a need to think about the shock of the (not so) new and for some, the comment you didn’t like Tomaz will resound. It does with me. Also, the reality is that most teachers have not heard much pithy comment from an ‘edu A-lister’. ;O)
on June 12, 2009 at 7:09 pm warrick

Good stuff; I love the music btw!
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