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  • The purpose should be creating the new information environment, one that's at the core of our children's 'outside the classroom' experience with technology. We have to bring digital, networked, abundant, overwhelming information into the classroom. The focus needs to be on the information and the learning not on the technology.
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• 25 Oct 09
  

  Dr. "TKA" Kulla-Abbott

  "If you can't use technology get out of teaching!
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  Teachers should focus on information and learning, not on the technology and simply getting ICT into their classrooms, believes David Warlick.
  
  
  How is ICT changing what teachers can do?
  Technology has done a lot but what's really impacting on teachers is how information is changing. A number of years ago I wrote a book called Redefining Literacy. It started out being a technology book but the more I researched the more I realised it wasn't technology I wanted to talk about, it was information. The nature of information has changed and, as a result, so has what it means to be literate.
  
  For instance, an increasing number of teachers are getting students to blog. When they used to write an assignment on paper the teacher was the only person who was going to read it… and the students knew it. So, they write what they think the teacher wants to read. However, when they're writing to a blog they know that their classmates are also going to read it… and respond. It takes the assignment to a whole new level where it becomes less ‘I'm proving to you that I understand what was in the chapter' to a conversation within the class where the students are reacting to each other's insights, and are learning more in the process.
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• 23 Oct 09
  

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  Great interview by Interface Magazine (from NZ) with David Warlick about ICT and education

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• 22 Oct 09
  

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  Teachers should focus on information and learning, not on the technology and simply getting ICT into their classrooms, believes David Warlick. How is ICT changing what teachers can do? Technology has done a lot but what's really impacting on teachers is how information is changing. A number of years ago I wrote a book called Redefining Literacy. It started out being a technology book but the

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• 21 Oct 09
  

  Patti Porto

  "Teachers should focus on information and learning, not on the technology and simply getting ICT into their classrooms, believes David Warlick."

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  Teachers should focus on information and learning, not on the technology and simply getting ICT into their classrooms, believes David Warlick. How is ICT changing what teachers can do? Technology has done a lot but what's really impacting on teachers is how information is changing. A number of years ago I wrote a book called Redefining Literacy. It started out being a technology book but the

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  Mary Beth Hertz

  Article about effective use of tech in the classroom addressing that teachers should either use it or 'get out.'

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  • If a teacher wants to do more, what would you suggest?
    Set up a personal learning network. I could show you websites and tools but that's as far as you're going to get. You need to get connected. If I was a principal and wanted my teachers to start growing their ICT knowledge and their experience, I would set them all up with a blog. I'd divide them into groups of maybe four teachers and ask them to subscribe to the blogs of the others in the group.

    
    

    They would have to write at least two articles a week about their experience of using technology. After a week, I'd suggest two other educator bloggers to subscribe and get them to share things they think would be of value to the group. This is starting a social network. They should then add more and it will reach a point when it's going to become self sufficient and the learning is constant – as opposed going to a workshop and learning how to do something. It's not that workshops are bad, I make part of living from teaching them, but teachers need skills that are going to enable them to keep on learning, not just to have learned what's in a workshop.

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• 20 Oct 09
  

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  • The purpose should be creating the new information environment, one that's at the core of our children's 'outside the classroom' experience with technology. We have to bring digital, networked, abundant, overwhelming information into the classroom. The focus needs to be on the information and the learning not on the technology.
  • There's a lot more to teaching than just teaching. It's about collaboration, research, and materials development. There's a lot to teaching today that wasn't part of the job a few years ago. We have to understand that and somehow restructure the day. What we need is for teachers to work eight hours a day: four hours in instructional supervision, four hours in professional planning. Just think what a classroom could be like if every teacher had four hours of planning every day! Just think about the learning that could take place. Isn't that the kind of classroom that our children deserve?
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• 19 Oct 09
  

  Lisa Admire-Sauer

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  • When they used to write an assignment on paper the teacher was the only person who was going to read it… and the students knew it.
  • f you get a student to write an assignment on paper, then go over to the computer lab and type it in with a word processor that's integrated technology. Has it really improved the learning experience for the students?
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  • • Just think what a classroom could be like if every teacher had four hours of planning every day! Just think about the learning that could take place. Isn't that the kind of classroom that our children deserve?
      
    • The worst thing a teacher can say is: "who's going to teach me how to do that?" Teachers are teachers and should be able to teach themselves what they need to know.
    • There are networks of other educators out there that can connect you with new skills.
    • E-portfolios are going to be huge,
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    • but I worry that some teachers are actually using this as an excuse
    • Set up a personal learning network. I
    • I would set them all up with a blog. I'd divide them into groups of maybe four teachers and ask them to subscribe to the blogs of the others in the group.
    • self sufficient and the learning is constant –
    • I think that we're going to become very dissatisfied with multiple choice
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  • I think one of the biggest challenges facing them is the lack of time
  • think they can teach themselves much of what teachers need to be learning to be able to modernise their classroom
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  • • What we need to be asking for and expecting is evidence of student work
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  so we need the tools and the hardware to support this...netbooks??

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  • • We have to understand that and somehow restructure the day. What we need is for teachers to work eight hours a day: four hours in instructional supervision, four hours in professional planning
    • demise of traditional textbooks.
    • There's a lot to teaching today that wasn't part of the job a few years ago. We have to understand that and somehow restructure the day. What we need is for teachers to work eight hours a day: four hours in instructional supervision, four hours in professional planning.
    • There's a lot to teaching today that wasn't part of the job a few years ago. We have to understand that and somehow restructure the day. What we need is for teachers to work eight hours a day: four hours in instructional supervision, four hours in professional planning.
    • Professional development doesn't have to be something that is done to teachers – it can be just ongoing conversations they're having with other professionals that they're learning from every day.
    • We're going to continue to need to assess learning but I think that we're going to become very dissatisfied with multiple choice tests – which is the big thing in the US. If we come to rely on them too much it'll mean we are teaching just those things that are being tested and we're leaving out a lot of very valuable stuff. So, I think e-portfolios are going to be huge – but the development of the concept needs to go further.
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    • Marc Prensky coined the expressions digital natives and digital immigrants – it's a useful distinction but I worry that some teachers are actually using this as an excuse. I
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  Teachers should focus on information and learning, not on the technology and simply getting ICT into their classrooms, believes David Warlick. How is ICT changing what teachers can do? Technology has done a lot but what's really impacting on teachers is how information is changing. A number of years ago I wrote a book called Redefining Literacy. It started out being a technology book but the

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• 18 Oct 09
  

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  Is a lack of PD a barrier?
  Professional development is a barrier, although I think they can teach themselves much of what teachers need to be learning to be able to modernise their classrooms. The worst thing a teacher can say is: "who's going to teach me how to do that?" Teachers are teachers and should be able to teach themselves what they need to know. If they can't then they probably shouldn't be teaching. You want a teacher who can keep up. There are networks of other educators out there that can connect you with new skills.
  Professional development doesn't have to be something that is done to teachers – it can be just ongoing conversations they're having with other professionals that they're learning from every day.

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