The uptake of teachers using One Note across the school has been outstanding. One of the advantages is that we have easy access to all student work whenever we need it. However, sometimes when we set Common Assessment Tasks or Investigations we ask the students to make a final product. There is a huge range […]
Welcome back to e-learning blog @ Gleneagles. The e-wingers team would like to resurrect this blog and use it to keep you in the loop. To let you know what’s coming up and some of the background thinking around what’s happening. We would also like your input as we are here to be of help […]
Here are a few links that I hope to use in our meeting tomorrow afternoon. The Intel thinking tools are a really useful free online resource. There are three very different tools that range from very simple Visual Ranking tool through to the very powerful Showing Reason Tool. I have put together a Visual Ranking […]
The NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition makes for some interesting reading as it looks at emerging technologies likely to impact education in the next few years. This is very much along some of the discussions we have had in the eLearning committee in the way it discusses Cloud Computing and Mobile learning as the immediate […]
The following article appeared in The Age on Monday Today’s youth work beyond ‘basics’ Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/todays-youth-work-beyond-basics-20131115-2xkuz.html At 16 this student developed a test for ‘pancreatic cancer’ using Google and Wikipedia and the 21st century skills we often speak of ie. collaboration, problem solving, self-directed learning. We are encouraged to embrace: an education system based around “service […]
I’ve been looking at my EIC question, thinking about what I want to see out of the e-learning committee and also what is happening in my classroom. The question which has sprung to mind is …”should students be taught or should they learn?” We often speak about ICT helping us to develop 21 Century skills […]
why have technology in schools? Some key arguments that support our vision for more technology in schools, whilst this is American, I think this supports our vision for Australian schools also. – Anna article from: EdTechActionNetwork www.edtechactionnetwork.org/ Why Technology in Schools? In states, school districts and schools across the country, there is substantial evidence that […]
The development of an e-learning vision is pivotal to the success of any 1:1 or technology program. So should we focus upon an e-learning vision or a learning and teaching vision? Some might say we already have the vision…but if we can’t articulate it, our students don’t know it and parents can’t hold us to […]
When I think about our GSC students’ learning in the 21st century I find myself thinking about an ever-changing, exciting but unpredictable future. We shouldn’t just focus on “what is 21st century learning” but what will be powerful learning for our students. Is it domain knowledge, their attitudes/motivations/dispositions or the interdisciplinary skills that are most […]