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Reality Check: Learning to collaborate? – Games can help
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The reality of education for the children of today. For tomorrow. Tuesday, August 31, 2010. 8211; Games can help. Did anything come out of our collaboration using the Xbox game viva piñata yes it did! A recent Visit From Ewan McIntosh Reminded me of some key factors. A shared interest or goal makes for a good opportunity to share: blogs and information. It creates that purpose for communication. Problems often require communication to solve: a puzzle is a good place to start a collaboration.
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Reality Check: August 2009
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The reality of education for the children of today. For tomorrow. Monday, August 31, 2009. Posted by Dave Winter. Links to this post. Wednesday, August 19, 2009. Working with Year Eight students on Digital storytelling aspects the following is the sketch of what and how we will work. Most important part I think In the Session. Work out what we know. Have clear learning intentions. Interact with each other. Try to allow cognitive rehearsal for thinking. Create new personal knowledge. Similar to a movie.
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Reality Check: July 2010
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The reality of education for the children of today. For tomorrow. Thursday, July 22, 2010. Posted by Dave Winter. Links to this post. Digital citizen ideas from Derek Wenmoth. Posted by Dave Winter. Links to this post. Wednesday, July 21, 2010. After a long time of being busy helping setting up a new professional learning community I finally had a chance to work with students again. So what Am I trying to concentrate on. Lots of opportunity for students to contribute, think, do and to create flow. Heaps ...
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Reality Check: December 2009
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The reality of education for the children of today. For tomorrow. Wednesday, December 30, 2009. 8220;The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be”. ThinkExist.com Quotations. “Loesje quotes”. ThinkExist.com Quotations Online. 1 Nov 2009. 28 Dec. 2009 http:/ einstein/quotes/loesje/. Have a look at the slideshow (just eight pictures) and I will explain what I mean. Supportive classroom communities where learning modeled shared celebrated etc. Clear goal setting and articulation for learning.
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Reality Check: May 2010
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The reality of education for the children of today. For tomorrow. Monday, May 17, 2010. Please help me collect some of the great educational quotes. You can even make your own ones up. If you are good ;-). Posted by Dave Winter. Links to this post. Sunday, May 16, 2010. Daniel Pink talks about motivational aspects in his book Drive. Motivation requires three aspects. Real sense of purpose. Sense of potential Mastery in what they are attempting. Posted by Dave Winter. Links to this post.
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Reality Check: Connected Schools – Six mths in
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The reality of education for the children of today. For tomorrow. Thursday, August 26, 2010. Connected Schools – Six mths in. We have been working as a professional learning community for six months and we can see impact in the video below. With the project comes regional goals and as leaders what I see as crucial now is:. Communication with other schools (newsletter coming). Collaboration with others like the University and Polytechnic. Clear internal roles such as (organiser secondary voice).
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Reality Check: February 2010
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The reality of education for the children of today. For tomorrow. Monday, February 1, 2010. For those of us new to gmail there are a few things to learn. While I try not to print emails and be paperless many of us often need to. Here is a video pointing out howto without getting all the stuff on the side. Posted by Dave Winter. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Moving at the Speed of Creativity. Sony SA-NS410 Wi-Fi Speaker with AirPlay. Three useful tips with Google Forms.
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Reality Check: November 2009
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The reality of education for the children of today. For tomorrow. Tuesday, November 3, 2009. Having been on a visit and taken some photos the students have a real idea about the bridges and their design features and construction. Posted by Dave Winter. Links to this post. Monday, November 2, 2009. Still banging on about it. My last post presented a little snippet from a Cellphone policy. These devices will undoubtedly enable learning, save lives and change lives. When will we let this take place?
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Reality Check: September 2010
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The reality of education for the children of today. For tomorrow. Thursday, September 16, 2010. The Students have designed some inventions and spoken about the on ustream. I was impressed by the creativity that went into ideas such as the “ultimate hair brush”,. 8221;The Magniball wall” and the “Super Alpaca feeding station”. The ability to adapt, change and think in different ways shows that young students are able to move from designing to inventing. Well done. Posted by Dave Winter. Links to this post.
