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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

4:58	Suz Arnott - 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

4:59	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

5:04	Suz Arnott - The infrastructure is often left on the back burner, leaving teachers to struggle to get things working

5:05	Suz Arnott - Why ban YouTube? it is one of the main ways students communicate with each other - that and texting/mobile phones

5:08	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.

5:10	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

5:14	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

5:15	Suz Arnott - setting examples for the anywhere anytime learning experience

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Suz Arnott - Discussion of 1:1 computing
does each child need a computer? few surveyed responded yes.
Greg: Why should each child have a computer?
application driven - computer always right... the device controlled the learning

Mobile devices much more customisable - use of apps gives the learner more control of the learning, mashable

5:20	Suz Arnott - better question What is good learning? what are the tools to support good learning? Learning is a mediated process

5:23	Suz Arnott - CoMET - mashable use of apps 'spotlets" multimodal paradigm video clip of german tech

5:26	Suz Arnott - "The Learning Common" sharing of information more through blogs and wikis rather than email at Greg's school

5:27	Suz Arnott - TWINE - collaborative thread discussions http://www.twine.com/

5:29	Suz Arnott - students and increasingly parents are using and developing an understanding of web 2.0 technologies

5:33	Suz Arnott - Parramatta Catholic Education Framework - teachers can't do this by themselves, there needs to be some framework to support them. Needs to be a collaborative process

5:35	Suz Arnott - strategic approach to working with leaders - building leadership capabilities

5:37	Suz Arnott - Student learning good teaching teacher learning * this adds the most value - yet hardest to support/enable school learning school learning system learning

5:39	Suz Arnott - teacher learning time release creative approaches to allow teachers time to collaborate and learn

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