It was reported today that the Australian Education Union in Victoria is taking the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) to court over the requirement of Victorian teachers to lease a laptop for school use. Jewel Topsfield from The Age reported: A highly contentious requirement that teachers at state schools fork out for [...]
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Should teachers have to pay for the technology they use?
April 6, 2013 · 5 Comments · school mangement, Teaching
Tags: iPad·iPads·notebooks·teacher tools·teaching
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 [...]
Do you know your CBL from your PBLs?!?
November 11, 2012 · 5 Comments · learning spaces, school mangement, Teaching
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn“ The above quote could easily be thought of as inspiring Inquiry Based Learning…except that it was said by Benjamin Franklin about 250 years ago. The more things change in education, the more they stay the same! At my school it [...]
Tags: 21st century learning·learning·school management·teaching
The Assumption of Limitation
May 30, 2012 · 11 Comments · Teaching
Recently I’ve been struggling with what I see as the core problem of education present: how do we as school leaders get teachers to transform their practice to teach in a way that is more appropriate for the technology that is available to them? This was stemmed by stories of schools getting 1:1 iPads and [...]
Traveling Light: the teacher that arrives to work with just his keys!
March 12, 2012 · 8 Comments · Teaching, Web 2.0
The other week I pulled up to work at the same time as one of our Grade 1/2 teachers. While I got out of my car juggling my usual laptop bag, lunch and sets of keys, I noticed that this teacher was carrying nothing but his lunchbox. “Traveling light?” I asked. “Always!” he replied cheerily. [...]
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 [...]
Update on Victorian Teacher Notebook Scandal
September 7, 2011 · 14 Comments · Uncategorized
It’s been a bit over a week since my original blog post and it certainly has been a wild ride. The post generated 2 front page articles in The Age newspaper in Victoria, news coverage on ABC radio, Macworld magazine, the Sydney Morning Herald and Herald-Sun websites, and even an education news site from the [...]
Tags: DEECD·notebooks·teacher tools·teaching
Victorian Teacher Notebook Scandal
August 26, 2011 · 73 Comments · Teaching
Australian teachers are respected around the world as high quality innovative educators. That is perhaps no more true than in Victoria, where education has benefitted from a forward thinking, inovation encouraging government and Department of Education (named DEECD in Victoria) over the last 5 – 10 years. But after a change to a conservative government [...]
Tags: DEECD·notebooks·teacher tools·teaching
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 [...]
Tags: Assessment·NAPLAN·pedagogy·teaching
How do I make the time?
May 15, 2009 · 2 Comments · Teaching
This is a question that is asked a lot by Primary teachers I have talked to. Generally they are sold on the idea of doing something new and exciting with their class, such as a wiki page, a podcast or some movie making, but feel like they have no time to do it. How do [...]
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