tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42819200548159490272024-02-19T14:56:55.879+00:00Technologies for LearningMark Wilson is Executive Headteacher at Fairlawn, Haseltine and Kilmorie Primary Schools, Lewisham, South London.
Mark is ex-Headteacher at Robin Hood Primary School, Leeds. http://wilsonm01.blogspot.com is focused on the effective use of technologies to support, enhance and improve learning.mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-21703847561330880822013-01-02T20:17:00.001+00:002013-01-12T19:04:08.031+00:00Tutorvista<b>Get online tutoring</b> in all subjects<br />
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TutorVista is a paid-for service that puts a tutor alongside the learner... whenever the learner wants. <br />
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mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-48646104397520019412013-01-02T20:13:00.002+00:002013-01-12T14:36:46.351+00:00Teach Your Monster to Read<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-23193692876860802402012-11-01T17:56:00.000+00:002012-11-01T17:57:49.687+00:00swivl<a href="http://www.swivl.com/" target="_blank">http://www.swivl.com/ </a><br />
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Flipped classroom</h2>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Allows teachers to quickly capture themselves
delivering a lesson and distribute it to students. The Swivl removes the
barrier of having to convert existing lessons into multimedia to start
trying this teaching technique. </span><br />
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Professional development</h2>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Enables capture and sharing video of their skills
with online professional development communities like Torsh, Teaching
Channel, Bloomboard and more. The Swivl enables frequent sharing and
more rapid skills development.</span><br />
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Teacher assessments</h2>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Removes the awkwardness of using video in
teacher/principal reviews and lets the principal focus on the review. It
also brings transparency and efficiency to the process for
administrators. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.swivl.com/education/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://www.swivl.com/education/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">I spoke recently at the Casey Cardinia Network Conference, "Over the
Horizon, On Personalised Learning", Phillip Island Resort, Melbourne, Australia. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">The conference highlighted the importance of technologies in enabling learning and personalised
learning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">One of the conference keynote speakers, Andrew Douch, who in
2008 won the Microsoft Worldwide Innovative Teacher of the
Year Award believes that, "You don't need to be very good with
technology to do very good things with technology. Teachers no
longer need to be tech-savvy to transform their classrooms into
thriving, connected, learning communities. Rather they need a
willingness to question their 20th Century paradigms and rethink
their roles as educators in a world where information is available
on-demand and communication is instantaneous.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">Andrew's blogsites is well worth a visit.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.evolveducation.com.au/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">http://www.evolveducation.com.au/ </span></a><br />
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<a href="http://andrewdouch.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 10.000000pt;">http://andrewdouch.wordpress.com/</span></a><br />
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mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-11858332585411166332012-06-17T17:38:00.000+01:002012-06-17T17:38:34.046+01:00Wall-mounted IPadThis is an interesting way to interact with IPads... spotted in a clothes shop in Leeds. The IPad shows the shop website. Not only an interesting way to engage with the IPad itself, but also an interesting fusion of the real and virtual worlds. In this case, the website becomes an in-store feature.<br />
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Perhaps school websites could learn something from this (?)<br />
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<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-21694328220557591932012-06-17T17:32:00.001+01:002012-06-17T17:32:33.507+01:00Multi-touch technologieshttp://www.multitouches.co.uk/technology/hardware/<br />
http://www.sourcetech.co.uk/mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-38693597239857362972012-06-16T11:22:00.002+01:002012-06-16T11:22:09.901+01:00Planning for a Learning EnvironmentPlanning effectively to get the best out of technologies in the classroom first requires some thinking about infrastructure.<br />
The infrastructure is the boring bit. The bit you don't often see or that doesn't look at all flashy. But, infrastructure is key. Like anything good, anything sustainable... technology in classrooms has to be built on solid foundations, and in this case that is a solid infrastructure.<br />
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This is what Year 5 & 6 classrooms at Robin Hood Primary School, Leeds, looked like in May 2012. <br />
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Classrooms at Robin Hood feature a hard-wired 'spine' throughout the building that allows us to have eight computers in every classroom that are hardwired into the network. That means that they have a physical connection... a cable... into the network. Hard-wiring the computers means that each classroom is less reliant on wireless to carry data. The more pressure on the wireless system... the more potential for problems.<br />
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In this case, a wireless cloud overlaid on top of a hard-wired spine means that laptops can be added as an addition to the static computers in the classroom to give a Computer Suite as and where needed. Classrooms can be 'ICT-heavy' or 'ICT-light(er)', depending on the subject being learned and the preferred style of the teacher and children.<br />
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There is also a data point for the teacher's laptop. Again, this means that the teacher's device is hard-wired. It does not rely on the wireless signal and is therefore more reliable.<br />
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The mix of hard-wired, static device and mobile wireless devices allows you to balance the data load and to be flexible in how resources are deployed. This is much closer to a 'real world' engagement with ICT and technological devices than the old ICT Suite model allowed.<br />
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The bits that aren't on show....<br />
There are ten data points in the classroom. They are strategically planned in the room in order to enable a cluster of static computers that do not have a significant impact upon the classroom space itself. One data point is next to the Interactive Whiteboard in order that the teacher's laptop can be hard-wired into the system.<br />
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The ten data points from all eleven classrooms are routed back to a panel in the centre of the building. The panel has been considerable expanded over the years to cope with the number of data points in the classrooms and the additional data points that provide the wireless access, data to the School Hall, a data cluster in the Cyber Cafe, etc. Beneath the panel is a hub that runs at the fastest speed we could buy. Beneath the hub is a regularly updated, expanded, future-proofed, memory-enhanced, backed-up and souped-up server. The server is connected to a 100Mb Internet link that goes out to a 3Gb Internet link, courtesy of Yorkshire & Humber Grid for Learning.<br />
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All of the equipment quoted in this last paragraph is all but invisible in the school itself. It has come at considerable expense, and it is key to the effective running of 'the bits you can see.' Invest in infrastructure first. Get that right. Then build on top of that towards your vision for a twenty first century school.<br />
<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-51925689563823984522012-06-16T10:15:00.001+01:002012-06-16T10:15:07.735+01:00Use of technologies at Robin Hood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a short film made by Sophie Moore, Newly Qualified Teacher, and pupils at Robin Hood Primary School, Leeds in late 2011. Sophie made the film to show how a range of technologies are used to support and enable learning at the school.mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-51536875064134433582012-06-16T10:11:00.003+01:002012-06-16T10:11:51.981+01:00Third Millenium Learning - long film<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This film captures the philosophy and the views of School Leaders at
Robin Hood Primary School, Leeds, current in January 2012. This film is
a companion piece to the short film that shows children learning in their classrooms that was captured at the same time.mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-23193043629532095752012-06-16T10:03:00.000+01:002012-06-16T10:03:15.135+01:00Third Millenium Learning Award - short film<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This short film exemplifies some of the practice current at Robin Hood Primary School, Leeds in January 2012. The film features short interviews with teaching staff and footage of children using technologies as part of a creative, stimulating and immersive learning experience.<br />
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A report by ofsted in April 2011 rated the curriculum at Robin Hood as 'exceptional'. Standards, leadership & management, teaching & learning at the school were judged as outstanding in the same report.mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-28679962835517175182012-04-19T18:42:00.000+01:002012-04-19T18:42:20.488+01:00Mind Maps and moreMind mapping and more from BBC Scotland.<br />
Pinball...<br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/pinball/" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/pinball/</a><br />
<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-37098768750867818732012-04-15T10:14:00.001+01:002012-04-15T10:14:32.175+01:00Evernote for Education<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/26982205?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="400"></iframe>mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-35435191570397064722012-04-15T10:10:00.002+01:002012-04-15T10:11:27.062+01:00Interactive Images<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span dir="ltr">Interactive images give an interesting, dynamic and rich look and feel to research and presentation. Thing Link is a very useful tool to achieve grouped resources and multimedia content around a theme. <a href="http://www.thinglink.com/" target="_blank">http://www.thinglink.com/</a></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span dir="ltr">This is an example of an interactive image from <i>The Guardian</i> newspaper on, as you see, the theme of Star Wars</span></span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/interactive/2012/feb/11/infomania-star-wars" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span dir="ltr">http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/interactive/2012/feb/11/infomania-star-wars</span></span></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://elearningexamples.com/examples/multimedia-learning/" target="_blank">http://elearningexamples.com/examples/multimedia-learning/</a><br />
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The Titanic resource looks particularly good and will be very useful for our Topic unit on <i>America</i><br />
<a href="http://elearningexamples.com/tag/titanic/" target="_blank">http://elearningexamples.com/tag/titanic/</a><br />
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The Anne Frank resource looks equally compelling <br />
<a href="http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/" target="_blank">http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/</a>mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-40245140943191464692012-03-31T10:02:00.003+01:002012-03-31T10:07:15.190+01:00Cartoon Story Maker<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Quick and easy Comic Strips for free...<br />
Free software, courtesy of the Victoria State government (Australia)<br />
Add speech bubbles, information and title boxes and audio clips.<br />
<a href="http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/cartoon">www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/games/cartoon</a><br />
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Seemingly, the softwarewas developed to support languages teaching... <i>"Teachers can make cartoon stories to model language and cultural conventions."
</i> However, it could be used in relation to any subject.mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-11036427152165255842012-03-17T08:26:00.003+00:002012-03-17T08:26:48.549+00:00Using iPads<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">These are just a very few 'quick and dirty' uses of the iPad and associated apps...</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">iTunesU is interesting in itself. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">When mobile... it brings new possibilities. There is much more to be made of iTunes U...<br />
We have downloaded a whole series of free Spanish apps. The teacher is
using them with the children in their MFL sessions. We then plan to do the same with
the Teach Yourself Italian apps.... but not teach it - just give children the iPads during the lunchtimes and see what
they can teach themselves of the language.... a Lunchtime University /
independent learning action research project.<br />
Structured, and coached, Study Support is a really enabling and empowering skill for children to acquire.<br /> </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">The integrated video camera in the iPad allows real
flexibility. We are taking short movies in school, then dropping them straight into
Pages (wordprocessor app) - thus creating talking posters and books, in the style of <i>The
Daily Prophet</i>.<br />
Comic Life is an app for purchase. This app - which can also be bought as an Apple & PC software program - gives lots of DTP / Comic style and poster creation options and is thus completely cross-curricular.<br />
I Can Animate (again available not only as an app, but as a PC and Mac software programme for computers) enables stop-frame animation that can again apply to any
curriculum area. Recently we have been creating animations relating to Literacy and Science. </span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">A nice Science-related animation: animate a fruit talking about healthy eating.<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Moving files:<br />
Setting up a
Dropbox allows you to quickly move files from the iPad to other devices.</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Having an Apple TV box (£100) is another option here.</span>mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-70440093670214262462012-02-16T17:55:00.002+00:002012-02-16T17:55:53.283+00:0030 Online Multimedia Resources<h1 class="entry-title" style="font-weight: normal;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><em>multimedia mega-sites found on the web</em></span></h1>
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<em></em><a href="http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/30-online-multimedia-resources-for-pbl-and-flipped-classrooms/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">http://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/30-online-multimedia-resources-for-pbl-and-flipped-classrooms/</span></a></h1>mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-34245135599338757712012-02-16T12:49:00.002+00:002012-02-16T12:49:26.942+00:00WorldWide Telescope"WorldWide Telescope enables you to explore the universe, bringing
together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the
world and combining it with 3D navigation. Experience narrated guided
tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky. You can research and import your own data and visualize it, then create a tour to share with others."<br />
<a href="http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/" target="_blank">http://www.worldwidetelescope.org </a>mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-55170958514112084252012-02-15T16:06:00.002+00:002012-02-17T17:31:09.078+00:00IPad Language AppsThere are many free language apps for IPad and IPod.<br />
Technologies for learning... the IPad has a great deal to offer. I am interested in the potential that apps offer to shift the locus of language learning. These apps really can enable the independent learner...<br />
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Apps to enable the learning of Spanish language:<br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/learn-spanish-mindsnacks/id385497068?mt=8" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/learn-spanish-mindsnacks/id385497068?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/free-spanish-tutor-24-7-language/id294858049?mt=8" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/free-spanish-tutor-24-7-language/id294858049?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/istart-spanish%21-full-beginner/id337250660?mt=8" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/istart-spanish!-full-beginner/id337250660?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/learn-spanish-vocabulary-free/id293880487?mt=8" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/learn-spanish-vocabulary-free/id293880487?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/marias-spanish-class-lite/id345622573?mt=8" target="_blank">http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/marias-spanish-class-lite/id345622573?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/free-spanish-essentials-by/id309491028?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/free-spanish-essentials-by/id309491028?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://pbskids.org/mobile/little-pim-spanish.html" target="_blank">http://pbskids.org/mobile/little-pim-spanish.html </a><br />
this isn't by any means the full list.<br />
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There are similar apps resources for enabling learning of French, Italian, and many, many more languages. These apps free the learner to take their own learning pathway, learn at their own pace, learn in a way that suits them and at a time that suits them.<br />
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Apps to enable the learning of Italian language:<br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-italian-audio-flashcards/id372927426?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-italian-audio-flashcards/id372927426?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-italian-mindsnacks/id433199718?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-italian-mindsnacks/id433199718?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-italian-vocabulary-free/id295249496?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-italian-vocabulary-free/id295249496?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-italian-quick/id422963629?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learn-italian-quick/id422963629?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/world-nomads-italian-language/id297249484?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/world-nomads-italian-language/id297249484?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ke/app/learn-italian-babbel.com-basic/id477150278?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/ke/app/learn-italian-babbel.com-basic/id477150278?mt=8</a><br />
<a href="http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/lets-speak-italian%21/id155864176">http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/lets-speak-italian!/id155864176</a><br />
Again, not an exhaustive list.<br />
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All of these resources are supported, backed-up and supplemented by podcast and iTunesU content.<br />
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Language learners as independent learners:<br />
Equip those children who want to be involved with an IPad. Offer them the opportunity to develop their language skills, knowledge and understanding on a lunchtime: A Lunchtime University.<br />
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Creative approaches to learning, enabled by technology.<br />
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<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-9766237280433258682012-02-15T08:28:00.003+00:002012-02-15T08:28:58.341+00:00Khan Academy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If you've not looked at Khan Academy yet, do have a look. There are lots of interesting possibilities here. I'm very interested in the idea of children as self-directed learners. Khan provides a great infrastructure to support the development of those self-initiating skills and behaviours that enable self-direction. Learning via Khan could potentially go in so many different ways...<br />
<a href="http://www.khanacademy.org/" target="_blank">http://www.khanacademy.org/</a><br />
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<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-81252947326223056892012-01-29T11:13:00.000+00:002012-01-29T11:13:08.943+00:00Numbers31% of 8-18 year olds have a desktop computer in their bedroom and 12% have their own laptop.<br />
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'The quantity of information doubles every eight years. This means by the time a child born today graduates from college, the amount of knowledge in the world will be four times as much, and by the time that child is fifty it will be thirty-two times as great. By then, ninety-seven percent of everything known will have been learnt since that child was born.'<br />
Alvin Toffler<br />
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<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-29191174945132605242012-01-28T16:52:00.000+00:002012-01-28T16:52:03.304+00:00BBC Online resourcesThe BBC is a never ending treasure trove of high quality resources. Over 20,000 paintings spanning over 800 years here...<br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/yourpaintings/2011/08/your-paintings-art-resource-for-teachers.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/yourpaintings/2011/08/your-paintings-art-resource-for-teachers.shtml</a><br />
<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-81593895531031096892012-01-25T22:32:00.000+00:002012-01-25T22:32:00.290+00:00MuvizuFree 3D animation software for PC. Download the .exe at <a href="http://www.muvizu.com/" target="_blank">www.muvizu.com</a><br />
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<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-51144086771769042982012-01-20T21:32:00.001+00:002012-01-20T21:32:13.465+00:00iBooks AuthorJust on stream, but destined to be huge...<br />
Does this change our relationships with books, again...<br />
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<br />mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4281920054815949027.post-45606738605086190802012-01-17T00:05:00.002+00:002012-01-17T00:05:11.319+00:00NumbersReproduced from Creativity blog:<br />
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In 2003, a total of five exabytes of data existed. Now we generate that
every two days. We are, literally, more creative than ever.<br />
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In the amount of time it takes you to read this blog posting, roughly 382
Android phones will be activated; more than 250,000 words will be
written on Blogger; and 48 hours of video will be uploaded to YouTube.<br />
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There are two billion of us connected to the internet across the globe.
By 2020, there will be five billion people accessing the internet on
over 50 billion devices – phones, tablets, TVs, even refrigerators. The
internet is information, but information is inseparable from the people
who are creating, consuming, and sharing it. And the web is no longer
anonymous – it’s built on real people and their connections, opinions,
and ideas. <br />
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<a href="http://www.thinkwithgoogle.co.uk/">http://www.thinkwithgoogle.co.uk</a>mark wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00980280368138645002noreply@blogger.com0