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Questions Are your dream realistic? When do you move on? What do you have that you need to let go? How do you give up riding a dead horse? How do you replace a failure with a new dream? Should you disengage because of difficulty? How do you create a brighter future when the present is dark? Statements Finding it difficult in deciding how to move past an issue. Only remembering emotionally stimulated events and not day by day activity. It is a challenge to keep up and move with change. Emotional Intelligence recognize your own emotions and how they affect your thoughts and behavior, know your strengths and weaknesses, and have self-confidence. You’re able to control impulsive feelings and behaviors, manage your emotions in healthy ways, take initiative, follow through on commitments, and adapt to changing circumstances. You can understand the emotions, needs, and concerns of other people, pick up on emotional cues, feel comfortable socially, an...

Designing Professional Learning for Teachers Questions of expectations - from the participant's perspective - to assist in designing a user-focused event/program/workshop/webinar. This is a list of questions that a deliverer should ask of themselves when designing a professional learning event for teachers. 1. Why should I attend? 2. What do I need to know, to be ready for the event/workshop? 3. What am I expected to do with this knowledge once I return to school? 4. What will I learn & will it be at my level of knowledge? 5. Why is this training important to me - is it relevant? 6. How will this benefit my student's learning? 7. How can I logistically apply this in my classroom? 8. How can I share this knowledge with my peer teachers once I return to school? 9. What resources can I access once the event/workshop has concluded? 10. How will this benefit my job performance and my career? 11. How will this change my teaching practices? One-off sponsorshi...

Disengaged students If the data is consistent 10% of youths between the age of 16 to 18 are not engaged in education, employment, or training (a stitch in time: tackling educational disengagement). The ongoing cost for people who have disengaged will grow ever-increasing as society relies less on unskilled labor. Technological change, greater labor market flexibility, and economic reforms are transforming the workplace. In Australia the labor growth sections are; Health Care and Social Assistance Professional, Scientific and Technical Services Education and Training Mining  Construction  The jobs in decline are; Manufacturing  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing The Future Of All Work, And Not Just For Creatives - trends in USA :   “With the avalanche of new products, new technologies, and new ways of working, workers are going to have to become more creative in order to benefit from these changes.” The disengaged ex-students have a...

I would like to take this opportunity to talk with you about a paradigm shift in relationship to ICT systems and education. I would like to refer this paradigm shift to The Matrix movie. Your challenge is recognising whether you have taken the red pill or the blue pill. So here is the red pill. You are living in a 20th century paradigm. Your paradigm problem  is to increase productivity. To increase productivity you standardise operations. This achieved via the following methods; One software platform across your system Limiting the type of devices connected to your system You manage a centralised support system based on limited device type and platform. Your system is highly controlled and managed by a centralised authority. Your client's connect to your system So here is the blue pill. You are living in the 21st century paradigm. Your paradigm problem  is how to continually adapt with rapid change. To adapt your operations with rapid change you are s...

Jonus Prostrate but Faceup Scene 2 Slide 5 The noise, the silence, the tomb, the self. What condition can remove this pity? I am displaced with this attention. I cannot compose my stature. Forever crumbling and falling apart. I am now the centrepiece for all to ridicule. From hatred alone I despise those who watch and mutter. I hear it all, I know it all and I feel it all. Pathetic man, chalet, conceited prick. Too weak to stand, too weak to kneel. Fallen down into the swine's garbage. In this time I will listen to the hypercritical judgements. I will remember all. In time I will return to seek victims for my malice. Slide Show

There are many new technologies being used in classrooms today: social networking, online teaching, class blogs and wikis, podcasting, interactive whiteboards, and mobile devices. Based on Gartner, Inc. Predicted top 7 strategic technologies (related to learning) and trends for 2012 Media Tablets – no single platform and owner provided. IT systems need to be adaptive to accommodate multiple platforms. Student and educators acquire their own tablets and bring them to school. From point and click to touch, gesture and speech – services need to design new user interfaces. Students and Educators employ apps on their tablets rather than internet browsers on PCs. Contextual and Social – services gathers and employs information on the user to personalise information and interaction. Online courseware personalizes  learning. Learning Management Systems adapt Facebook like capacities. Internet of Things – services based on sensors that are connected to the interne...

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)