Tag: assessment

A big task!

Posted by | Published on July 6, 2016

Greg Whitby is the only very senior educationalist that I know in NSW who regularly uses social media and blogging to highlight his educational beliefs […] 

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Assessment for learning

Posted by | Published on February 18, 2014

“The teacher’s job is not to transmit knowledge, nor to facilitate learning. It is to engineer effective learning environments for the students. The key features […] 

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Assessment Using Games by James Gee

Posted by | Published on September 2, 2008

James Gee has written a many books on situated learning and what video games have to offer Education. This video explores how games are perfect […] 

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Posted in Digital life, Education, Popular culture, Professional development, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 1 Comment

Gilmore's Law, Smartphones and Wikipanion

Posted by | Published on August 26, 2008

The filters that school systems use to manage what students access will shortly become irrelevant to the young people being protected (from themselves?). How long […] 

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Google Translate  →

Posted in Digital life, Education, Featured, Professional development, Travel

  Google Translate is the most essential tool in my daily existence at the moment, on exchange in Denmark, at Viborg Katedralskole. Most Danes speak English and it is completely possible […] 

Teachers and Social Media  →

Posted in Digital life, Education, Featured, Professional development, Web 2.0

“If you can’t dance a step, you can’t teach it, and if you can’t teach it – we might as well all pack up and go home.” from STRICTLY BALLROOM […] 

A Wider World View: India-Australia Exchange  →

Posted in Education

Cultural exchange is a very important value for our school. “A Wider World View @DHS” is a broad program encouraging and nurturing intercultural understanding, school exchanges and online connectivity, using […] 

Amazon Fails Social Reader  →

Posted in Digital life

I have written many posts about social reading but this one is focused on the the decline in Amazon’s (previously excellent) customer service. It is really difficult to understand how the loop […] 

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