Posted on August 7th, 2008 by xpatasia
This week I posted a reflection on the exit skills students should have when leaving a learning institution in the 21st Century. I think that this is great place for schools to begin discussion about the use of texts, curricula, educational technology, chalk, indeed anything for learning. My post made reference to the great initial [...]
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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by xpatasia
I had a bit of a rant on a mailing list yesterday when I saw a request from an Australian School Administrator who was asking to visit a 1:1 school to see something in action for the first time. I am amazed that MLC Melbourne embarked on the journey of 1:1 learning over 25 years [...]
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Posted on May 10th, 2008 by xpatasia
Unfortunately I was not able to attend the videocast of Stephen Heppell’s presentation at the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong Conference. I had spoken with Stephen initially about the conference when we met up at BETT in January. I have always been a big fan of Stephen’s ideas since meeting him initially during my [...]
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Posted on February 25th, 2008 by xpatasia
It amazes me that there is so much out there to learn. Just when you think that you are just getting organised and that it is starting to make sense to you and you are living a nice, connected life, something comes along to shake you out of your complacency. I had one of those [...]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2008 by xpatasia
Some of the last minute political bumps seem to have been ironed out leaving me a very short time frame to get the word out about the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong Conference.http://21c-learning.hk
I really do believe that this will be the best opportunity so far to promote the concept of sharing ideas and resources and [...]
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