eLive and the edubloggers meetup
8:29 pm on the 24th of May, 2006The last two days have seen the eLive conference at Edinburgh - the best in ICT in learning and teaching - and I would have liked to have gone, but instead I’ve been kept informed by the near-realtime blogging of Ewan and David. The posts of the speeches give a good insight into a few hot topics at the moment and I’ll pick out a few key points here:
- RSS, more information, but with more control
- collaboration, key thing to learning, key to the real world so why don’t we encourage it in school?
- audience, a pupil will be more motivated to do something if they know that it’s going to be seen (and appreciated by people)
- audience again, pupils use psuedonoms so that their work gets critiqued, not them
- IT turned into ICT, but should it really be IC, the T should not get in the way
- Why do we teach? When will the change to them learning happen? Who is the active participant?
That covers a few things.
Now though, lots of people are in Edinburgh on a meetup in the Jolly Judge or somewhere, wish I could have made it.
May 26th, 2006 at 12:45 pm on the 26th of May, 2006
It was a great couple of days. Much smaller than SETT - which was a good thing I think. It meant you felt you could see everything you wanted to see but still have time to stop and have a blether with interesting people… and there were loads of interesting people there!
Glad you enjoyed the reporting we did from the conference. Hve you seen John Johnston’s little experiment?
May 26th, 2006 at 2:15 pm on the 26th of May, 2006
I saw John’s feeds page yesterday, it’s nice to know that something like that can be made up so easily withour having to use superglu or the like. More and more I wish that OSs ran using tags rather than folders.
Hopefully I’ll be able to make it along to the next meet up during the SETT although I’ll be on placement somewhere and I’ve no idea yet where, so it’s unlikely I’ll make it to the event itself.
May 27th, 2006 at 9:20 am on the 27th of May, 2006
Oh yes! Yes, yes, yes! Storing stuff in folders is such a daft idea. I want tags and I want efficient computer search tools.
Trackbacks/Pings
Leave a Reply