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There is a Disparity in My Light: Navigating the Split Creative Consciousness

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  There is a Disparity in My Light: Navigating the Split Creative Consciousness Introduction - Does Metamodernism Oscillate? Clarity, I've learned, doesn't guarantee a smooth landing. While the core recalibration manages our internal mechanics, we eventually have to look back out the window and confront the final destination. For many creators navigating major life transitions or complex technical boundaries, this shift introduces an unsettling inner divide. The anatomy of disparity in creative practice is the psychological friction of a split being—standing physically present in a new space while your internal pace is still trying to catch up with the velocity of your transition. When we widen our creative intent, we often slice our universe in half: balancing cold, geometric clarity on one side against the messy, vibrant residue of personal regret on the other. Rather than forcing these halves to blend, we must learn to treat this exact contrast as our personalised map. 1. Ge...
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AADES Tasmania Reflection

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AADES Tasmania Reflection Online Learning is and will continue to be the significant Change Agent in Teaching and Learning Practices To bring change do not be realistic Change the mental boundary to "it can be done" Change will involve a complexity of technologies - not one solution fits all. If Online Universities can accommodate over 400,000 students how will Senior Secondary Schools accommodate a growth in student numbers? NBN will reshape the classroom This is the Knowledge Era: Decisions made today will effect our participation tomorrow Social Networking, Free & Open Content, Open Classroom are the future Entitlement (right to participate) + ubiquity (cloud) = disintermediatory (goodbye middleman)
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iPAD & ANDROID APPS and Blooms

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Part of a 21st Century Teacher's mission is to relate innovative technology with their teaching practices. Perhaps the most commonly accepted teaching and learning pedagogical methodology is the Blooms' Taxonomy. Blooms has been revised in the digital era. Across the world, many educators have made considerable efforts to related Blooms with online learning, web 2.0, 3.0, and industrial revolution 4.0. Blooms and Moodle Resource link   Blooms and Web 2.0 to 3.0 Resource link Resource link Blooms and Industrial Revolution 4.0 Resource link Resource link Educators across the world can adapt new technologies and adapt teaching and learning practices through what is a globally connected effort to be relevant and effective.  Can schools - more importantly can Educational Jurisdictions keep up with societal change? Can Bloom's keep up? One-off sponsorship You Tube
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Texting Technology Thinking

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Whilst writing has existed for many centuries the association of writing as technology is relatively new. The question is - How do changes in technologies influence knowledge & influence thinking? Chisel and Stone Reed pen papyrus roll press and vellum typewriter and paper keyboard and computer screen TXT Mobile writing technology is now the first choice in today's youth and how is it changing thinking? 14% done in class!!! Educators are caught in this change. Students are wanting to write but in a technology that is not designed for essay writing. Mobile Keyboards are changing to accommodate fast Mobile TXTing Software for touch screens Technology changes thinking. Allow it to change thinking in your classroom New technologies create cultural disturbances. Every new technology gives us two things — promise and consequence. The promise attracts us towards technology and encourages us to adopt it.  AI writing One-off sponsorship...
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iPADS & Convergence Culture

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iPADS are now an important learning tool within the 21st Century school environment. Schools need to view creative media as one of the key "learning corner stones" of the contemporary classroom. Classrooms should enable students to express their cultural situation, their stories and knowledge expressions whilst employing creative technologies such as iPADs. This need is well stated  by  Henry Jenkins re: "Convergence Culture". If you don't know Henry Jenkins play this video; A relatively new animation media app for the iPADS enables students to self express in an immediate and rewarding manner. The app looks fun and engaging. The app is called Blush Undivided Video. Check out the app via YouTube There is a change in who develops the content. It is important that students are engaged in creativity via "content creation". Rich media content development should not be the sole domain of the teacher. iPAD apps and the convergent culture are hel...
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Constructivist Learning and Moodle

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According to Dougiamas (1998) as shown by the diagram above, the learning theory we call constructivism is a collection of several learning theories that continue to be developed.  Some of these theories (Critical (Kincheloe, 2008) and Cultural (Hutchison, 2006))  are more connected to the idea of constructivism as a philosophical/epistemological concept.  Moodle is built on the constructivist theory of learning and in general, this aspect of Moodle is ignored. It is easy to overlook the theory and focus on Moodle as an object or a tool. Designing “how to” Moodle courses are easy to manufacture, easy to measure, and easy to assess but they are deficient in the development of a constructivist learning environment. It is important that online courses are not “content dumps” with little application to learning processes other than reading and remember. The following slide “Future of eLearning Moodle Moot 2011” offers some insights to enabling a constructivist learning en...
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Time and Distraction reflection

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Time and Distraction reflection Reflection on competing needs Plan to Plan Start the day with a 10-minute planning space Delegate to technology Use technology effectively to cut out duplication and repetition Use a variety of memory-based approaches Hearing, Text, Visual and Tactile Enable Planning Learning Planning processes Remove Procrastination Self reflect on organizational practices Develop a can-do mindset I Can't Get My Work Done: An hour per day of distracted time translates into $10,375 of wasted productivity per person per year, assuming an average salary of $30/hour.  That is more than the average U.S. driver will spend this year to own and maintain a car, according to the Automobile Association of America (AAA).  Toggling between multiple applications/windows/tabs/items on the desktop contributes to the problem of distraction, along with using multiple devices at the same time.  45% of survey respondents keep at least six items open simult...
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TPACK overview

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