Staff Development Day – ideas for 1:1 laptop learning
Colleagues, Your mission today is to spend some time thinking and sharing about learning in your 1:1 laptop classroom. The key issue about learning in a 1:1 laptop classroom is not the technology but the pedagogy. Today we will share our knowledge, accumulated over the least three years since the rollout of netbooks, using an online tool. Please register as ‘a teacher’ at Edmodo (or login if you already have an account) and use... Read More
Future vision?
Back in 2007, some ‘fresh ideas’ excited many Australians, especially those involved in education or who had an interest in the schooling of their own children and grandchildren. In short, that’s pretty much everyone. Here’s a reminder of the commitment our current federal government had, to the ‘Digital Education Revolution’ when seeking election in 2007: The single most important thing in my life is the health,... Read More
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The Best of 1:1 Advice
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. 1:1 PLN Advice Read More
10 things 'a school' can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms
This is the third post in a series. You may wish to read the first and second posts concerned with what a teacher and faculty can do in preparation for 1:1 too. 10 things ‘a school’ can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms: 1. Funding- expectations of a champagne experience from a beer budget tend to fizzle when the reality sets in. The state is providing machines and some training/support but it will not be enough.... Read More
10 things 'a faculty' can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms
10 things ‘a faculty’ can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms: 1. Support the school’s agenda – help to make good ideas work but also shape them with positive input followed by action. HTs have a special role here in leading their faculty positively and realistically. Be collaborative and then complete honest reflection using the SWOT tool. 2. Share locally with colleagues – who work in the same faculty... Read More
Director General's Memo: Commonwealth-state Funding Outcomes for NSW
Dear Colleagues, State and territory governments met with the Commonwealth on the weekend to negotiate funding agreements for public schools and vocational education and training. Of course you’d have to been living on the moon to miss recent media coverage of all this, so forgive me any repetition in outlining how this is likely to affect us. In a nutshell, these new agreements will provide significant, and welcome, new resources for... Read More
'NSW pulls out of computers-for-schools program'
The term ends and one would hope for more inspirational news from our political and system leaders. The above headline is from the ABC website and I am assuming it is reporting on yesterday’s memo from the Director-General but am uncertain what it will mean for us in schools who have already been allocated money/laptops from Round 1. My school has been expecting 233 laptops and the wireless infrastructure to support these tools. Does this... Read More
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