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The questions we need to ask ourselvesWhat will you do when content is washed out of your hands because your students can find it for themselves and in a form that is relevant and immediate to their needs?. There are over 2.7 billion searches run on Google every month; before Google who was answering these questions?. What will we do when the students have already personalized their learning using Blogs, Wikis, RSS feeds and social bookmarking. What will we do when our classrooms are no longer the stock exchange of learning – when what is learnt, when it is learnt and how it is learnt is determined outside the classroom.

Education 2.0 - Coming of Age

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E-Management Manifesto - Coming of Age

E-Management Manifesto - E-Management is RadicaleManagement (eM) is the most powerful, efficient, effective, straight-forward, easiest, and affordable way to manage.1) eM is a way of managing, not a package of technology solutions. It is very simple - you use the Internet to help you accomplish tasks and achieve goals.

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Gardners Ideas

Gardeners Five Minds for the Future
Creative
Discipline
Respect
Synthesis
Ethical

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Digital Signposts: July 2007

In case anyone is still in any doubt, the door is open now for real creative, effective and appropriate use of ICT for learning in schools in England and Wales. I am on the 7:20 from Leeds to Kings Cross, benefiting from the, (at times flaky), wifi, I have just downloaded and, quickly, looked at the latest Keystage 3 & 4; National Curriculum Programmes of Study, (thanks to Shropshire for the link). Reading this is like a breath of fresh air, real life contexts, using ICT to learn, share communicate and build knowledge; with no mention of specific software packages, or pointless scenarios for sham software practice.Here are a just few snippets that caught my eye: (explore and use) new ICT tools as they become available. (explore) the ways that ICT can be used to communicate, collaborate and share ideas on a global scale, allowing people to work together in new ways and changing the way in which knowledge is created. work creatively and collaboratively, taking different roles in teams (use) ICT to compress graphic, sound and video files to allow faster downloading; take account of the source of the information to make judgements on its plausibility, accuracy, completeness, currency and reliability, and to assess bias and partiality evaluate critically: This could include self-review, peer evaluation and user or audience feedback. Students should judge both the quality of their work and how effectively they have used ICT.And the picture of a Mac ... well thats just an added bonus.

Digital Signposts: July 2007

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