ULearn News » admin http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn Subscribe to the ULearn news blog and keep up to date with conference news and events Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:09:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en 2007: Helen Baxter - Keynote Thursday http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/helen_baxter_keynote_thursday.html http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/helen_baxter_keynote_thursday.html#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:08:57 +0000 admin http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/helen-baxter-keynote-thursday.html “Educating Leonardos” - multidisciplinary education
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Helen speaks of the need for more creative thinkers, more innovators, and the need for schools/teachers to impart and encourage the joy of learning. She emphasises the new roles for teachers as facilitators, and the need to be inventive with the curriculum.

As far as attitudes are concerned, Helen speaks of the “open source attitude” - a positive attitude towards learning, developing, inventing, creating, sharing, hacking and innovating. A way to do this she asserts is cross-discipline or multi-disciplinary connections - for example bio-computing, and the development of organic machines. Helen advocates a managed approach to this, and spent some time talking about the future of education and the campus of the future.

]]> http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/helen_baxter_keynote_thursday.html/feed 2007: Emerging technologies, emerging practices http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/emerging_technologies_emerging.html http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/emerging_technologies_emerging.html#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:55:21 +0000 admin http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/emerging-technologies-emerging-practices.html 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
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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”

]]> http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/emerging_technologies_emerging.html/feed 2007: First keynote - Ewan McIntosh http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/first_keynote_ewan_mcintosh.html http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/first_keynote_ewan_mcintosh.html#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:48:29 +0000 admin http://blog.core-ed.net/ulearn/2007/10/first-keynote-ewan-mcintosh.html The conference is underway and I’m listening to Ewan, the first keynote speaker. Ewan is talking about conf audience.jpg digital holidaymakers. Audience members applauded when he gave his view on accuracy of digital immigrants/natives metaphor, no doubt due to the huge numbers of “older” teachers who are at the forefront of the digital innovations in their schools, and see the “digital natives” yet to catch up. Ewan ranges over flickr, youtube, blogging and more, posing questions about the time teenagers spend on creating online video to the time they spend on school activity.

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Simon from Educating the Dragon created this vidcast inspired by the Show With Zefrank. Take a look for a bit of fun. This link will take you to podcast entitled “Can I go to Uloin?”.
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Delicious is a bookmarking service that is shared on the internet, where links to websites are sorted by tags. To see a full list of all the bookmarked websites related to Ulearn07, visit
http://del.icio.us/ulearn07 or http://del.icio.us/tag/ulearn07

You can add to these lists if you have a delicious account. First create an account, and if you come across a related website or blog entry, add it to your account using the ulearn07 tag. Include a description for others who may know nothing about the site. For those presenting workshop sessions at ULearn it will be helpful to delegates if the resources, links or blogs referred to in your presentation are bookmarked in delicious with the ulearn07, or ulearn tags.

For presenters who do not have their own Del.icio.us account please feel free to use the Conference account to bookmark sites relevant to the conference. To log in - User ulearn07 and Pwd skycity07. Information about how to do this and how to use other Web2.0 applications is outlined in the conference handbook.

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