Powerful Learning: It's a Digital Thing

Personalised- Customised- Diversity- Partnerships

Personalised- Customised- Diversity- Partnerships

wikipedia- A narrative is a constructive format (as a work of speech, writing, song, film, television, video games, photography or theatre) that describes…….

Teachers last night recieved their iPads to start our iPads for learning projects as a team. The project will involve teachers working together to research ways to use iPads to enhance learning at our school.

Staff will share their learning via blogs, twitter and google docs.
Stay tuned for futher updates…….

With the holidays upon us and the rain coming down, I thought is was time to check out some apps ready for use next term with students and staff. The MAC app store just seems to get better each time I open this app. According to apple- the Mac App Store is just like the App Store for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad…… it’s as easy to find and download Mac apps as it is to add your favourite magazine to iPad or a new game to iPod touch….. you can browse apps by category, such as games, productivity, education, music…… do a quick searchs…read developer descriptions and user reviews. Flip through screenshots. there are a huge amount of free and useful apps. This week my girls are entertaining themselves (due to the weather) with an app called ABC interactive. Check it out, lots of scope for use with early learners. Other apps I like, garage band 11, facebook, twitter,taskcard, mashable, mindnote, dropbox, idea sketch, pow, TED, pages, keynote….

This is a quote from Marc Prenksy’s article which is well worth a read (link below0- We need to move from the teacher talking and the students taking notes. (“My teachers just talk and talk and talk” is by far the students‟ biggest complaint about school.) In partnering, the students do what they do – or can do – best, which is finding information, using technology and other resources, and creating. The teachers do what they do best, which is asking the right questions, ensuring quality and rigor, vetting, and adding context and appropriate scaffolding.

The Reformers Are Leaving Our Schools in the 20th Century

For all those Mac people out there who have joined the good side, here is a great video about using technology for learning in today’s world, lots of apps, resources, ideas, how to use mobile devices like iPads/iPods/Macbooks. We are trailing challenge based learning here at Woolsthorpe PS and would be interested to here from others who are doing so. Ringwood North PS is one school I’m keen to visit next term. Let me know if you are interested. I’m in the process of organising another MAC day (Apple Roadshow) for teachers sometime next term (and a day for students) STAY TUNED!!! Anyway enjoy this link to start some thinking………….. Is anyone else excited about OS X LION!!!!

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