Ewan McIntosh, talking about the need to explore emerging practice that matches the potential of emerging technologies - leading edge thinking, teaching and learning.
The 5 points he covered were
1. Audience - from classroom audience, or teacher as audience, to hundreds of thousands
2. Creativity - new publishing tools and options, animations, students sharing products online and for ipods and cell phones,
3. Differentiate - raising the bar; moving from page-based to digital media.
4. Authentic goals - authentic purpose and audience, leading to strong ownership and motivation.
5. It’s not about the technology, it’s about the teaching - an emphasis on old tools can be a barrier to innovative practice; computer games can make a difference.
Quote - “mobile phones need to come out of pockets and be on all day”
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3 October 2007 at 2:09 pm
TeachingSagittarian
His message was so simple yet so inspiring! I will be rising to the challange Ewan set down for us. Will you?
3 October 2007 at 5:52 pm
Mike O'leary
Quote - “mobile phones need to come out of pockets and be on all day”
I have trouble with this statement, especially with students, it is a distration to them, they will do almost anything with them rather than what you want them to do. And the answer will be, I am out of credit.
4 October 2007 at 11:52 am
Lorraine Taylor
Kia ora Jedd,
I absolutely love comments like the one around cell phone s - we are one of the hundreds of NZ schools with no cell phone coverage and kids with no phones BUT we would like to use them and would be very open to help from Telecom, Vodaphone, etc etc if they wanted to help us out of our quandry!
4 October 2007 at 12:30 pm
Mr_Purrrfect
Great speech, inspirational. I want to be better!
4 October 2007 at 11:57 pm
Jedd Bartlett
Ha - yes - puts the discussion around how to deal with cell phones in classrooms into perspective. There was a murmur around the room when Ewan made this comment, but I know of many teachers who are actively encouraging kids to make notes on cell phones, or use them purposefully in many different ways during the school day.