Time to think

I took this photo this morning, on the way to breakfast. It seems like ages ago already. When I got back to town I called in to school briefly, dropped off some stuff and picked up some other stuff and remembered again about traffic and all that. Lorne already seems a long way away. Three [...]

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Innovation, the digital revolution and education

Mark Whittard (Toshiba Information Systems) opened up Expanding Horizons on the last morning. It’s hard for a hardware manufacturer to have something meaningful to say about education; even Apple struggle with that. And Mark Whittard mentioned as much when he began his keynote. We got a potted history of Toshiba and their history (130 years!) [...]

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The human network

Elh08 Plp View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Slides from Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, 21st Century Collaborative, USA, prsentation at ELH2008: 21 steps for 21st century learning. I liked slide 26 a lot. Sheryl began her presentation by alerting us to the 21st Century Learning wiki she’d been developing at http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com/ and her willingness to share [...]

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It’s not the hardware, it’s the ‘headware’ (ELH2008)

Bernajean Porter gave the opening keynote on ‘Raising a Generation for Greatness’. She spoke about a three to four month window of opportunity for change to take place when an opportunity comes along, before the mould on the jelly sets, which followed up nicely from Bruce Dixon’s opening, which talked about the once in a [...]

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