Tag: Laptops

'NSW pulls out of computers-for-schools program'

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on September 26, 2008

The term ends and one would hope for more inspirational news from our political and system leaders. The above headline is from the ABC website […]

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Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on August 28, 2008

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The Digital Revolution at DHS – Laptop Proposal

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on July 25, 2008

DHS needs to plan creatively and carefully in order to position the school effectively to reap the benefits of the Federal Governments funding of the […]

Posted in Professional development | Tagged eLearning, Laptops, SDD | 15 Comments

Digital Education Revolution: School Development Day – Teacher Professional Learning

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on July 20, 2008

Colleagues, Increasingly students must take responsibility for their own learning and the teacher becomes more of a facilitator, creating the conditions that allow […]

Posted in Digital life, Education, Professional development, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 | Tagged constructivism, eLearning, Laptops, NSWTF, SDD | 17 Comments

Blocked Site

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on July 14, 2008

Alas, went to work during my hols again today and of course, all social networking sites are blocked to staff, regardless of position in the […]

Posted in Digital life, Education, Web 2.0 | Tagged DET, Laptops, social networking, Twitter | 9 Comments

A Portal to Media Literacy

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on July 11, 2008

Everything’s changed or changing – fast. Michael Wesch commences with some of the issues of teaching in an inappropriate space before moving on to new […]

Posted in Digital life, Education, Professional development, Uncategorized, Web 2.0, YouTube | Tagged digital learning, eLearning, history, Laptops, learning, mwesch, teaching | Leave a Comment

The squabbling continues…

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 29, 2008

NSW may scuttle computers in schools deal and way down at he bottom of the article one reads, tomorrow is the deadline for NSW to sign […]

Posted in Education, Professional development | Tagged Digital Revolution, Laptops, Newspapers | 2 Comments

Constructivism

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 26, 2008

Constructivist teaching methods are IMHO essential, especially as we move into this new world with such powerful tech tools being at our disposal. More experienced staff haven’t had […]

Posted in Education, Professional development, Uncategorized | Tagged constructivism, eLearning, Laptops, Moodle | Leave a Comment

Education revolution worries everyone apparently

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 22, 2008

Cost shock puts school PCs at risk in the SMH today is another example of common knowledge being reported as if it is news. Staff are quite rightly concerned […]

Posted in Digital life, Education, Professional development, Uncategorized | Tagged eLearning, Laptops | 2 Comments

Laptops

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 13, 2008

The revolution is being televised: http://www.digitaleducationrevolution.gov.au/computer_fund/round_one/nsw.htm and it will be wonderful. We have an opportunity now to really start to innovate and re-position schools as […]