Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Unfortunately, I have had to reluctantly make the decision to move my blog to blogger. Edublogs is no longer a viable option for me or the teachers and classes in our cluster as we are subjected to google advertising or paying an annual subscription. Please update RSS feeds to my new URL http://belindajjohnston.blogspot.com/
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2009 1 Comment »
Trevor Bond
We all have a world view (knowledge) – how we see ourselves, relationships and surroundings.
This drives personal beliefs and opinions – convictions based on experience, knowledge, understanind and perhaps faith.
Beliefs lead to values – a range of concepts, attitudes, behaviours and skills. A value is the level of importance you attach to something [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Stuart Hale and Sue Brown
stuartnz@mac.com
Fully integrates with iApps.
One stop multimedia shop.
Develops student thinking and learning skills.
Promotes HOT.
www.nzmac.com
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Teaching & Learning – what is happening in the ampersand?
Thinking is more interesting than knowing but less interesting than looking.
20% of NZ students are not reaching low benchmarks in Science after five years at primary school.
Use NZC to bring clarity to our practice. Non-negotiable principles. NZ teachers can collaborate on the hooked on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Presenter: Trevor Bond
A thinker is a learner.
A learner is a questioner.
A questioner is a learner
A thinker is a questioner.
Questioning is the engine house of thinking (de bono)
Questioning is our most important intellectural tool (Neil Postman)
Who asks the mosts questions in the classroom – teachers or students and to what ratio?
Teachers 99.98% (mostly administrative and convergent, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
Why?
Kids to learn skills and take bck to schools, skills not already being covered in schools.
How it was planned?
cluster wiki, with email
Kids presenting and teaching to kids, representatives from each school
4 groups presenting in the morning, other 4 groups in the afternoon, student choice of what to teach
each student to learn a new piece of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Access through EPIC on TKI school login. A research tool for teaching skills to students. Around 60,000 safe website links. Access online24/7 home or school. If you search a keyword from the main page it will give you hits from the different levels on Britannica depending on student age and ability. Also choices for media [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
The Fourth Way of Leadership and Change
e-Learning/ICT in itself will have no positive effect on student achievement unless pedagogy is also adapted.
The first way: 60s-70s Innovation without coherence
The second way: 80s- early 90s Top-Down Government – goals, performance, targets – support bottom up
The third way: 90s Top-Down government – support bottom up, goals, performance, targets, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve recently had the privilege of making contact online with students from my very first class back in 1995 (Year 7s)! The first one made contact with me through the Old Friends site which I registered on many years ago for the purpose of tracking down people I had gone to school with. This contact [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve just read a post on John Sutton’s blog about student comments on blogs. It has some good ideas for introducing the topic to a class and examples of rules/guidelines to put into place. Definitely worth a look if you are using a blog with your class.
