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Starting off with Technology in the classroom

Starting off with Technology
These 3 sites can help Teachers who are uncertain with social networking and Technology in the classroom. It can now appear ever so mind boggling due to the many many options and the options keep growing.

How do teachers put it all together?

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Added by jjfbbennett on February 25, 2010 at 12:30am — No Comments

ESL Movie Cover + Lesson Plan

ESL: Movie Poster - Digital Technology and Lesson Plan http://bighugelabs.com offers a number of fun toys. The movie poster is a sim… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on August 28, 2009 at 10:55pm — No Comments

Innovation Comfort Zones and Schools

Innovation require a person to move into a new dimension. This dimension requires a person to disassociate from past experiences. Past experiences are the comfort zone and comfort zones are in effect conformity zones. When a person conforms the person remains static. The norm is the conformity which is the comfort zone. Introduction of a new method, idea and or system into a comfort zone creates anxiety, stress and fear. Sameness is safe, is effortless and is comfortable. Innovation is disruptiv… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on July 24, 2009 at 12:23am — No Comments

UniTube: UNSW Youtube and and Virtual Classrooms

UniTube: Youtube and and Virtual Classrooms University of NSW has demonstrated that YouTube can be used as an effective way to teach students. 16 selected High School students from 100 applicants throughout Sydney were enroled in this innovative program, to advance students in a Higher Computing course. The computer lectures are videoed and placed onto YouTube. Anyone can view the videos. The videos are supported by weekly face-to-face tutorials (outside of school hours). The course also involv… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on July 11, 2009 at 7:37pm — No Comments

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 This is a list all educators should be aware of. As at 09 July 2009 136 Learning Professionals have shared their Top 10 Tools This is the 3rd year learning professionals from all over the world have shared their top 10 tools for learning to help build the annual Top 100 Tools for Learning. Note, by "learning" we mean both formal and informal learning This list was used t… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on July 11, 2009 at 3:01am — No Comments

Cultural Calvinist & Art Books must embrace 21st Century Technologies

Art Books must embrace 21st Century Technologies Q. What happened to post modernism? A. It became Culture Calvinist. Q. What has General Motors and Art got in common? A. They both require ongoing government support, they make things people do not want and they peaked in the 20th Century. Jamie Campin’s Weekend Australian’s Review article “Keep writhing about art – Art books must survive in this age of visual noise” is a casing point of meaningless relevance and dislocated… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on June 24, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Egghead Costello

I could have been PM. I wanted to be PM. Unfulfilled ambition some say. End of a dream some say. Some say a lot about could have beens. What if I had of challenged Howard? What if I Howard had of stepped down? What if I had of snatch leadership. What if I was the victor? What if I was the PM of Australia. I lead Australia through crisis and through crisis. I lead Australia out of debt. That is no debt. That is leadership. You can insult me, but you will never understand my paradox. I am the good… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on June 20, 2009 at 7:22pm — No Comments

Schools and Creativity: Sir Ken Robinson

WE NEED A SENSE OF BALANCE

Why is creativity taken out of productivity? Why is innovation taken out of teaching? Why are schools not helping students to make meaning of their skills? If public education is to provide only the 3 Rs - to enable a functioning society - is education providing a hand-break on society? 'Education systems too narrow': Sir Ken Robinson: ABC 7:30 report… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on June 17, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

EggHead Black has a character - workplace psychopath

Back doesn't change workplaces that often. His power is in his immediate workplace experience. When required Back gets into another workplace via association. Someone in power always owes Back. Back has a network of power friends. When in a tight situation Back can rely on 'the friends'. Back has more enemies than friends, however the enemies are disorganized as a network of power, they change positions and they know that they cannot contest Back without bullet proof evidence.… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on June 6, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

What to do with a poor quality teacher.

What to do with a poor quality teacher. “a lot of people who have been hired as teachers are basically not competent.” Al Shanker There is no doubt that the most important element to a child's learning experience is the teacher. Great teachers have an impact on the child's academic achievement. A great teacher will ensure the learning experience is a quality learning experience. Great teachers can only survive in schools which have great leaders. Great leaders enable leadership and innovation.… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on May 26, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Social Networking and Teaching

Social Networking is big business. Social Networking holds a significant skills set which is increasingly becoming an important part of contemporary life. Students need to learn how to effectively and efficiently employ the tools for their working life. How do students gain the required skills set whilst advancing the required subject knowledge? Social Networking has added a complexity to the teaching environment. It is not a question of open exploration, suck and see, or for the teacher to step… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on May 2, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Anzac Day supports our continual efforts of invasion.

ANZAC Day has ceased to be a day where we commit to 'never again'. Anzac Day has become a shallow glorification of Australia's capacity to make war. It is a celebration of Australia's capacity of invasion. In contemporary multicultural Australia Anzac Day is appearing as the last stand of our mono-cultural past. ANZAC Day shoul… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on May 1, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Bill Henson is "Innocence"

Bill Henson is innocence

I recently received an Art Monthly (Australia) April 2009 edition as a present. Whilst in the past I collected and read such publications avidly I now read them only by chance. Interestingly in the edition there is an article by Paul Rapoport on a book by David Marr about Bill Henson the photographer. Bill Henson has been a controversial artist not because of any overt behavior but because of his subjects and how he portrays his subjects. The subjects… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on April 10, 2009 at 1:11am — No Comments

Dumbing Down Education

Dumbing Down Education Dumbing Down is a wikipedia category. It even states that itself can be accused of contributing to the slide of dumbing down society. 'Dumbing down' by Dr Kevin Donnelly approaches the proposed Dumbing down phenomenon and states quite clearly that it is presently experienced across all Australian education systems. The key issue is that education is now based on 'the process of learning' being promoted above 'content'. This concept 'Content free instruction' is where stu… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on October 31, 2008 at 11:56pm — No Comments

Failure and Success

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.' This quote has a religious heritage. Hebrews 5:8: `Although he was a Son, he learned obedience from what he suffered.' It also requires similar disciplines and commitments associated with religious life. The quote also has a lay heritage. 'Once you fall off the horse, get back in the saddle.' (Not sure where this quote comes from) This requires a person to overcome fear to achiev… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on August 27, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Art critics – A legacy from a previous century

The arts industry still thinks that it has authoritative ownership over creativity and all things visual. Christopher Allen - National Art Critic – vents his pre-20th Century concepts of art and culture in an article “If teachers use such terms, run” The Weekend Australain 16-17 2008 p5. Has Christopher missed the boat or does he not recognise that this is the 21st Century? The past glories when artists and the governors of artists (the rich and elite; the sponsors; the critics; the church and… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on July 31, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Neo Tribalism, Large Schools and Social Networks

Large numbers offers diversity and choice. Small numbers offers participation and respect. Contemporary society offers large large cities, large apartment blocks large shopping centers, large sporting venues and large schools. The Internet is large. It contains large communities, large social networks and large banks of information. Contemporary society offers diversity and choice. Robin Dunbar author of Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language puts forward that 150 is the maximum numbe… Continue

Added by jjfbbennett on May 4, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments

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