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07 Nov 09

Firefox Help

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02 Nov 09

Poor marks for education revolution | The Australian

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International Journal of Education and Development using ICT - Vol. 5, No. 5 (2009)

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ICTs are dealt with in isolation from
teaching and learning in official documentation pertaining to teaching and
learning
Aimed at quality promotion and capacity
development these resources contain suggested good practice descriptors that
are consequently used as the basis for the institutional audits
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- the
  use of ICTs in teaching and learning is dealt with in isolation from other
  core modules such as curriculum development, assessment, evaluation and learning
  design.
- challenged
  in favour of practices based on social constructivist learning theories that,
  for example, emphasise interpersonal interactivity over interaction between
  a student and a courseware program.
- Shephard (2004, 67),
  for example, distinguishes between the provision of technological support
  to describe an orientation of “let us help you to develop and use these
  learning resources” and professional development to signify the scaffolding
  provided to lecturers to help them develop the theoretical understandings
  and skills that they will need “to find, develop, and use these learning
  resources”
- educational
  technologists increasingly fulfil the role of “curriculum designer”
  alongside one or more academic staff members in a curriculum development team
  (Littlejohn and Peacock, 2003)
- The combination of increased use of LMSs in higher education,
  inflexible course structures, time tables and the dominance of the “performance”
  model of teaching (Morrow, 2007) therefore seem to have shifted the role of
  educational technologist from “instructional designer” to “curriculum
  designer”.
- Although the curriculum for the PGDHE was developed by a team of AD practitioners,
  the team did not initially include an educational technologist.
- this de-contextualised
  practice is indicative of the knowledge structures that underlie much of the
  current discourse on educational technology that separates technology from
  pedagogy and content.
- curriculum development to be a team-based activity
- work in isolation from
  their colleagues when developing their courses, resulting in academic processes
  at this institution still resembling a cottage industry where all the major
  teaching and assessment processes are managed and executed by a single individual
  (Daniel, 1997)
- educational technologists have a role to play in identifying
  areas of teaching, learning, assessment and evaluation that might benefit
  from the use of ICTs and in assisting lecturers to use ICTs in pedagogically
  sound ways.

25 Oct 09

Google Reader (1000+)

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Many people are replacing their unhappy biological lives with meaningful virtual ones

24 Oct 09

The Innovators 1 – Ewan McIntosh

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ewan pedagogy ideas

- Set aside regular do-nothing time
- Observe what people do
- Think about what they want
- Look for ideas that will appeal to people, not other innovators
- Hone your idea into a "night-club pitch" – a sentence or two that sums it up that anyone can shout to a pal across a crowded room and enthuse them enough to use it the next day.
- Build sustainability in with the bricks
- Stay focused on the market
- Think concrete, not abstract

23 Oct 09

History Teachers' Association of Victoria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The History Teachers' Association of Victoria is committed to fostering an
outstanding professional community which meets the challenges of the teaching
and learning of history in a dynamic environment. It pursues this goal within
the state of Victoria, throughout Australia and internationally.

Picture Australia

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Picture Australia greeting cards are now available from the Picture Australia Zazzle shop

19 Oct 09

Wikinomics

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The structure is similar to Facebook: individuals can create profiles, post pictures, blogs, use an inbox, connect with others, everything you’d expect plus you are automatically connected into a hierarchy

22 Sep 09

YouTube - GNNViz Demo

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21 Sep 09

How Education Enterprises Use Virtual Worlds | Second Life Grid

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14 Sep 09

Steve Hargadon: Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education

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18 Aug 09

twitthat.com

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12 Aug 09

Weblogg-ed » Raising the Profession…or Not

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make good decisions about social Web media in the classroom.

05 Aug 09

Plan for schools of excellence | The Australian

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indicator of high-quality teaching.
- An indicator of that is surely student capability and achievement when leaving school, results are based on exams and in rural/disadvantaged areas - exams are not motivating drivers for student achievements - trade schools? how are they judged then? - on 2009-08-05
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ighly accomplished teacher -- a newly created level of classroom teacher under the state's first system of merit pay that pays teachers $100,000
- why do great teachers (what is the measure) have to go to back end of bugger all to get 100k, when Labour spin doctors pull 4 times that just for feed the press rubbish and keeping ministers out of direct questioning? - on 2009-08-05
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