I’ve received a fair bit of feed-back from my last post, ‘Give students the what, the why and the when – NOT the HOW‘. Most feedback was from teachers keen to trial what I’d written about in their own classrooms. Some feedback was from teachers that felt perhaps there was something important missing. And that [...]
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Give students the ‘what’, the ‘why’ and the ‘when’ – NOT the ‘how’
February 11, 2013 · 4 Comments · Teaching
In my last post, I mentioned the change in pedagogy that going 1:1 with any device should demand. Too often 1:1 allows teachers to slip into the trap of every student doing the same thing at the same time in the same way. In my opinion this should probably be the most important deficiency in [...]
1:1 iPads – Don’t stuff it up! Here’s some ideas…
February 3, 2013 · 2 Comments · learning spaces, school mangement, Teaching
1:1 iPads are up and running at Kalinda. We’re finally seeing the very exciting pay-off resulting from hundreds of hours of hard work in preparing for and establishing the program. We really wanted to do this right. And to get it right right from the start. As such I’ve personally spent 100s of hours on [...]
The day I removed an Interactive Whiteboard for the first time
November 11, 2011 · 16 Comments · Teaching
In the last few weeks I have begun removing Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs) from classrooms in my school. That’s right. You read correctly. And I don’t mean removing to put another board up. I had planned this for a while. But when the crunch came I had a little moment. Am I really going to do [...]
NAPLAN: the teacher’s latest excuse against innovation?
March 25, 2011 · 10 Comments · Teaching
I’ve just had a fantastic day at a PLP Connect conference listening to the very inspiring Will Richardson among others. PLP stands for ‘Powerful Learning Practice’, the idea being that in the new Web 2.0 world, how you teach is far less important than how you model learning for your students. In the middle section [...]
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