Yesterday, while I was finishing my reports cards, doing final calculations to figure out my students final marks, writing their comments and giving them feedback. I couldn’t help but notice that the marks I gave my students were all quite high. Usually, my average marks are around a B. This year, I am teaching grade 9 for the first time and my approach, especially teaching in an…

NOTE: This blog post has only the most tenuous link to Global Education. I share it more for the members of this community to laugh at me. If you like my writing, my blog can be found at here.

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This is sitting in my backyard. I'd like to tell it's story.

I am, it seems, a bit of a dill when it comes to anything to do with anything…

The reason I came to teach at Castlemaine North Primary School was that I wanted to know what was possible when you combined a great school, with hard-working teachers and open-minded students, with my passion for technology. Two years later, I think I have my answer.

Pretty much anything is possible. The highlights of the last two years would be too numerous to mention... but a video-enabled maths course enabling students to work at ten different levels simultaneously;, having seven…

I met Pam Allyn during her "Keynote" at the 2011 Global Conference!  I was immediately drawn to her work, bringing the best of literature to children all over the world.  Two days before Thanksgiving, I received information that Pearson Publishers were donating books to Navajo children for all the books that were read on-line by children.  You could choose the organization you wanted the books to go to.  The list of books for young children were…

It isn’t often my whole conception of how I teach shifts, but it did yesterday. I had one of the most powerful conversations around education of my career yesterday. And the people who shifted my thinking were thirty-eight students between the ages of ten and twelve.

You may have picked up from my writing lately that the idea of gaming in education has been swirling around in my head since the Teaching and Learning with Vision conference. These two TED talks have also shaped my ideas…

I really couldn't be happier with the way the Writers' club is shaping up. Check out this conversation on one of the student writer's blogs....

An author from Drysdale in Victoria, Australia is encouraged in his writing, and receives feedback from, students at Castlemaine North in Victoria, Australia and a student in Lahore, Pakistan. This occurred without prompting from the teacher, and…

The title to this blog post sounds suspiciously like the subtitle to the next Transformers sequel. I assure you, it isn't. The title in fact comes from an activity that I had assigned the students working at level 4.5 in the structure domain in mathematics (4.5 means high school material, a year ahead of where these students are chronologically).

Now, it's not the most exciting material, but I felt I did do a reasonable job of this particular instructional video...…

Language: Russian

Presenters: Grazina Likpetriene (Arts Teacher, Lithuania), Vladimir Mosijenko (Russian/English language teacher, Slovakia), Larisa Tichonova (Russian language teacher, Lithuania), Parvana Pirieva (English language teacher, Azerbaijan)

Grazina Likpetriene (Arts Teacher, eTwinning ambassador, Lithuania)…

The record of session:  http://bit.ly/rueQXJ

Language: Russian

Presenters: Grazina Likpetriene (Arts Teacher, e-Twinning ambassador, Lithuania), Vladimir Mosijenko (Russian/English language teacher, Slovakia), Larisa Tichonova (Russian language teacher, Lithuania), Parvana Pirieva (English language teacher, Azerbaijan)

Vladimir Mosijenko (English, Russian teacher, Slovakia),…

Dear Friends e cari amici

ho fatto un piccolo report in lingua italiana sulla conferenza

che potrete rivedere sul sito

http://www.narnia.it/multivideoconferenza.htm

Spero che vi piaccia ...

sono graditi Vostri…

Language: Lithuanian

Presenters:  Grazina Likpetriene (Art Teacher, eTwinning Ambassador, Lithuania), Justas Ingelevičius  (Architect, JP Architektūra, Vilnius, Lithuania), Pranas  Zenkevicius (Master of Audio-Video Arts, Siauliai, Lithuania)

Grazina Likpetriene (Art Teacher, eTwinning Ambassador, Lithuania)…

When I'm asked where I want to take technology and learning at Castlemaine North PS next, I usually show a version of this slide that I used at a couple of recent conferences.

If I think about how I use technology, and thus how I assume most adults who take advantage of technology use it, we aren't shoved into a single online community with a restricted audience and be told…

Language: French/English

Presenters:

Grazina Likpetriene (Arts Teacher, Lithuania), Vincenzina Pace (Italian & History Teacher, Italy), Vincent Mespoulet (History & Geography teacher, France), Christine Vallin (Music Teacher, France), Karin Palmieri (Theater teacher, France)

Vincent Mespoulet (History &…

Richard Close & Joni Schwartz shared some appalling stats during their Techniques on How to Handle Poverty presentation.  It is truly shocking to find out how much our educational system is failing young black men, that children in poverty are facing educational trauma and that our…

Belief is powerful stuff. 

As John Mayer writes in his song Belief:

"Belief is a beautiful armor

But makes for the heaviest sword

Like punching under water

You never can hit who you're trying for"



Because it is so powerful, belief in things like plans, ideologies and pedagogies can definitely cause collateral damage and unintended consequences.  What…

A globally connected, networked and distributed learning environment gives the learner the opportunity to personalise their own learning through selecting technologies and approaches that match their learning styles and preferences.  The learner should therefore carefully consider these options, as well as being aware of presenting themselves appropriately to an online audience.  This is so that they can connect with an online audience, either through online classrooms or through other means…

In earlier posts, I have talked about the idea of a distributed, networked learning environment.  Learning materials are accessible to thousands of students instead of a small cohort.  Learners connect and learn from each other through technologies that allow learners to share and collaborate: wikis, blogs, discussion forums, instant messaging, video sharing, among others.  Learning, therefore, becomes a globally connected endeavour.                   

If learning continues to…

Cypris Chat - Virtual World Language Learning in Second Life.

Link to my presentation slides on Slideshare.net…

conference iearn project Italy presentation

thanks to all the partecipants we have a very nice meeting and thanks also to Atzuko that are in Japan and rice in the Night for do it

for project see

http://globaleducation.ning.com/forum/topics/iearn-project-in-italy

or

www.narnia.it

Thanks