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Enabling Learning in Today's World - Greg Whitby
 
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Suz Arnott -  This is a blog of the presentation by Greg Whitby on Enabling Learning in Today's World
Greg has taken us through an overview, children today learn in a number of ways, usually not in the classroom.
McDonalds was poo pooed for having a maths website... but hey if the kids go there to learn maths, that is only value adding to what they learn at school
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Gives examples of how today's kids are learning on their own, developing their own communities in places like You Tube and myspace - example of Musicians who gain huge following

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Suz Arnott -  What do we need to be able to hook in to these techs to engage and provide learning opportunities? Need a solid infrastructure.. Grunt network
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Suz Arnott -  OSCAR - Open source support resource

Data - multiple data nodes - the hub, the window

Sharing - records and archives, CMS, Email

Collaboration - Wiki, project management

Teachers shouldn't have to be worried about the back end, just with using the tech to provide powerful learning opportunities
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Suz Arnott -  The infrastructure is often left on the back burner, leaving teachers to struggle to get things working
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Suz Arnott -  Why ban YouTube? it is one of the main ways students communicate with each other - that and texting/mobile phones
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Suz Arnott -  The development of sound practices - using   a range of  tech  needs to be mediated by tech savvy teachers, to enable secure learning experiences.
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Suz Arnott -  Encarta - was first CD encyclopedia, now a dead form - discontinued from October 2009  - wikipedia with its dynamic changes is far more valuable to today's learners
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Suz Arnott -  TED, iDEAL, sites which allow learning and collaboration, feedback

epicurious - collaborative learning, development of community, adding value to the food journey. Participatory in a range of ways - feedback, comments
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Suz Arnott -  setting examples for the anywhere anytime learning experience
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