An Expat Educator in Asia

Andrew Zolly’s comments about Redefining Intelligence are right on the mark for me.If you have not seen or hear Zolly, this is a great chance to listen to a short take highlighting some powerful ideas. http://www.eschoolnews.com/video/index.cfm?v=230&f=367Enjoy!

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Andrew Zolly’s comments about Redefining Intelligence are right on the mark for me.If you have not seen or hear Zolly, this is a great chance to listen to a short take highlighting some powerful ideas. http://www.eschoolnews.com/video/index.cfm?v=230&f=367Enjoy!

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There has been quite a bit of discussion on the wires recently about Vista and its advantages and disadvantages for schools. I have to say that I have not really had a great deal of exposure to this on a school level at the moment. Most of the schools I work with are going to [...]

Nothing like trying to organise a conference to start to introduce one
to a whole lot of new resources. I have been communicating a lot with
Wes Fryer who has the great blog Moving at the Speed of Creativity. Wes has links to some great podcasts there. Including a great one by my good friend, Bruce Dixon. [...]

Sounds like a bit happening in Singapore.From Bryn’s post, I assume that the conference that Scott has posted about is on November 17.This one http://www.icet.com.sg is set for 21-22nd November.

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From Scott Johnston on the echalk list:
The International Schools of Singapore welcome people to attend their second biennial TeachIT conference.
A full day (well, three x 1hr 15 minute sessions) of ideas about how to use IT in the classroom.
Run by Garden Variety classroom teachers from Kindergarten to IB (Yr 12-13
level) plus the odd Techno Geek [...]

Onto the notebook
trolleys. The only successful deployment of these that I have heard of is from
Canadian International where the technician comes with the trolley! Most schools
I speak to comment on how hard things are with the vertical nature of school
buildings in Hong Kong. HKI assign their
laptops to floors for this reason. It has been a [...]

This is some writing I did yesterday to explain to a vendor about the state of IT Expenditure for Hong Kong schools:
It is really difficult
to explain how the HK Government does things in schools in anything less than a
volume of Encyclopedia Britannica!
Suffice to say that
they have a section called the IT in Education section that [...]