Archive for December, 2008
Multi Touch Technology on its way
If you’re going to BETT 2009 this year (Web Link) keep an eye out for the new SMART Table which uses multi touch technology.
As you may be aware SMART tend to dominate classroom interactive boards and now it seems they are set to do the same with the so called ‘table computers’.
Multi-touch technology consists of [...]
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Poetry, Maths and Growing Posts
I like the latest post from the Sargent Park Math Zone (Web Link) which is a classroom blog hub for grade 8 students (14 years old) in Canada.
What’s happening here is that Chris Harbeck is teaching maths through the medium of poetry. The students have been asked to create 5 poems describing integers. What’s interesting [...]
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Question – What uses Twitter, google Earth and Google Docs?
Answer: A 21st Century primary school class.
From the ‘ICT in my Classroom’ blog (Web Link).
Another example of early school use of technology to enhance their learning. In this examples it’s science – specifically looking at how day length varies across the UK and the differences around the world.
Google Earth was used to illustrate the movement [...]
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Do we ask these questions?
Of new staff – or even ourselves?
From The Thinking Stick by Jeff Utecht (Web Link).
Jeff works at a 1:1 school (one computer per student) in Asia where they are currently interviewing for new posts. He’s uploaded a list of very interesting questions giving a glimpse of modern day schools. Here’s a select few questions – [...]
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Anyone know what’s happening here?
What’s the SMARTBoard showing?
It’s Wii Golf – a game!
From the ‘ICT in my Classroom’ blog. Tom Barrett has installed and setup a Nintendo Wii in his classroom for Year 5 and 6 students (that’s primary school folks). He intends, naturally, to use the games for learning particularly the Wii Sports game for teaching math [...]
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Blogging from the student perspective
I recently posted a blog about the 5 most common mistakes tutors make when using blogs in education (you can read it here). Interestingly a student responded (rosevibe), agreeing with the issues raised and also adding more food for thought particularly regarding as to how staff might motivate the students.
Quote “To be told that you [...]
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Interesting statistics on blog reading and YouTube
Hi folks
A couple of interesting things to ponder:
comScore have reported that more than 14 million U.K. Internet users have visited a blog in August (Web Link) 2008 and that 27 million people watched more than 3 billion videos online in the UK in June 2008, (Web Link). YouTube accounts for approximately half of these figures [...]
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Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students
By Ruth Reynard
Great article via Campus Technology (Web Link)
Instead of the usual tips for using blogs in education the author presents a list of the most common mistakes. As one commentator states this can be extended to other uses of learning technology, particularly wikis.
1. Ineffective Contextualization
One of the more effective uses of blogging is for [...]
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