Thursday - Keynote - Tom March
21st Century Pedagogy for 21st Century Teaching and Learning
posted by Educational Services Team - Diocese of Broken Bay @ 10:19 am
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ICLT LEARNING AND TEACHING CONFERENCE: 27 – 28 JULY 2006 The Diocese of Broken Bay, NSW Australia, will again be facilitating an ICLT Learning and Teaching conference to promote and facilitate collaboration and sharing of best practice across our schools. The purpose of this blogg is to encourage (and demonstrate), the use of 21st century tools to faciliatate contemporary learning and teaching. We encourage all participants to contribute !
Thursday, July 27, 2006
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- Name: Educational Services Team - Diocese of Broken Bay
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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38 Comments:
Tom was most informative and challenging
Paul davis
Scott Hansen - Web2.0 is interesting, but concerns have been expressed regarding the amount of bandwidth that will be required by schools (systems?) to enable its use. Will it be economically viable to support - I hope so!
Wow! My mind is spinning. I am constantly thinking of creative ways to include ICLT in learning and teaching and Tom has certainly given me a boost today. I can't wait to get back into the classroom, look out year 2.
Phil Nielsen
great keynote address. informative fun, and inspirational. i already have some new ideas for the classroom. hopefully i can creatively impliment web2.0 within the classroom.
chris boylan
Tom was a very innovative speaker. The audience was captivated. This was evident as the only sound heard was the rustling of lolly wrappers. He gave us plenty of food for thought, both at pastoral and academic levels.I did not realise our duty of care encompassed so much at an ICLT level. Quite a challenge!
Brigitte Banning
You opened my mind to a language children are speaking and the importance to 'keep up' in regards to technology EVERY month not every year!!!
Louise Rosier
Kerrie Wetzlar, Narrabeen.
Tom was great. I can now use and understand language that my boys are using. Or at least I've started to understand, blog, wiki, podcast and RSS. Aged 20,18,16. I feel I'm forever playing catch up with I.T. language and music.
Tom also gave me great ideas for enriching my classroom practice.
Dave Matheson - Engaging students has become a common objective for the modern classroom. Tom's comments about needing to bring the classroom into a setting that students readily engage in were closely aligned with this objective. The highlight was the demonstration of current technologies and a brief road map for the future. The challenge here is communicating these techniques / technologies and their value to the other members of staff, which in turn creates a learning environment that is naturaly emersed in these ICLT's.
Brilliant, inspiring and awesome. Already planned some DEEP thinking activities for next week involving WIKI. "Just cool"! is what I am hoping to achieve with my student next week. Thanks for giving me new ideas and more motivation.
Kate Brown
I thought the key note address was fantastic. So many people who talk about technology within education today simply talk about changes that must occur teaching Generation Y kids. However, Tom really brought this concept alive, giving many fascinating examples of how this is happening.
I came today thinking I was up to date with technology and knew most of the answers... Wiki what?!
I was amazed at what I didn't know and what I hadn't heard of.
I am going away from Tom's workshop today with renewed energy and enthusiasm of the possibilities I can create for my Year 1 children. I'm off to research Class Portals and Wikipedia!!
Rachael Holland, Prouille
Wow!!! Tom is inspiring, challenging, captivating. I can't wait to get back to school to try out podcast with my Year 4 class. Blogs, hotlists, mash media, myspace.com, ClassAct Portals, wikis - as educators we don't jave time to sit around letting time pass us by. if we do, we will not be part of our future student;s education
Really stirring the brain sludge - so many ideas coming up through the sessions. Wa-a-ay better than I had expected this to be. Glad to be here. Can't wait to get back to home/school to start exploring further.
Sometimes things really click and a session is really fun. Today was one of those. Even though the power went out and the mic sometimes buzzed, the human connections were strong. Thanks everyone!
It was a privilage to listen to such a talented educator with a Catholic World View intact and the courage to openly articulate this vision.
Second time I have heard Tom give a presentation. Once again he proved to be both inspirational and realistic. The information presented today reaffirmed information and technological advancements available to the teacher.
Sam Brailey
fiona brown
wow i really need to tap into the kids more because by the sound of it they know so much about technology and what is out there that it is just mind blowing. thanks for enlightening me to some of it
I loved Tom's graph that show the balance between 'challenge' and 'skill'. Finding that balance is our challenge, especially in classes with diverse needs. Tom has opened up ways to tackle that task!
Greg Cumming
I enjoyed Tom's keynote. After I recovered from realising how old and out of date I am, I felt encouraged and inspired to go home and explore more - wiki, RSS, podcasts, class portals, blogs.... I have a steep learnign curve ahead. I thought the way he linked ICLT with our Catholic values and discipleship was very powerful.
Thanks for dragging us into the 2nd 10, Tom!
Tom March presentation was very thought provoking for us as educators. I am amazed at the new technology available to our children (Podcasts, etc)- & the new language that comes with it. The use of ipods/PDA's in education is a very interesting development. Thank you for the opportunity today, especially to those who presented & organised this conference- well done BBay!
Paul McGuire
Techno is great...until you have a power failure.Techno is a tool to help learning and enhance teaching practice.
Let us not forget that the best teaching has happened in a field under a tree (Plato), in a hedge along an Irish country lane (Nano Nagle, the Founder of Presentation Nun's and schools during the persecution of Catholics and schools were banned).
It can be found on a beach in 2006 as students learn about surf safety.
Techno is a tool which can help create a porthole into the learner - to touch the soul within which is were transformation happens. And even though the experience maybe the same, the transformation is unique to us all.
Chris Dawson
St John's Narraweena
Inspiring, challenging. Thanks Tom for a very captivating address. It was great to hear the links to Catholic World view and our duty of care for our children. You have certainly given us much food for thought.
Well done Tom, you struck the perfect balance between thought provoking and fun. It was great to hear you talking about Catholic values and the implications of technology on teaching in the same breath, as these two are often not as associated as they need to be. I just wished you'd showed the Numa numa clip too, an internet nerd classic ;)
Ben Thomson
Tom an excellent presentation...thank U
Tom really got the mind working overtime. His insights into IT and education was intersting and thought provoking.
Tom really got the mind working overtime. His insights into IT and education was intersting and thought provoking.
Steve Lineham
I like Tom's 3Rs - I think it should become the new mantra RICH, REAL, RELEVANT. We need to remain authentic. Carmel Healey
Really appreciated you reminding us about Filamentality & Clusty. I will be using these in our next collaborative planning session with colleagues
Technology is moving ahead so fast. It is wonderful to see that we are realising the potential of others and what we can learn by listening and hearing wach other. Samantha French
I found Tom's presentation most challenging. I thought I was keeping my skills up to date but... I reminded myself that education of any type is lifelong. So I'll keep going. The three R's were an excellent reflection for all of us. Thank you Tom
Becoming a "key player" in the state of eduction in Aussie will involve getting involved with the political process and learning how to function within it. The first lesson ...is to stop knocking it...
You want to have a say...then make representation through those who can open the doors for you. Get involved in he many advise groups that Ministers use. That is the second lesson.
The third is to present to the Government a"better way to do it". The goal is a National Curriculum...get into Canberra through lesson one and two...and sell your strategies which though unclear to me at this stage...with faith...I believe the CSO/CEO's do promise to be leaders and a "good" powerful influence on Aussie education and it's future. The vision and mission are great...it is strategy (functional, purposeful and flexible) we teachers, students and community require of you.
Good luck. Blessings, Vicky
I found that Tom's keynote had a good balance of reminding us why we are using technology in the first place - connecting us to what we already know is good teaching, while at the same time challenging us to move forward and to use technology in more exciting effective ways. I left the keynote feeling enthusiastic, encouraged and affirmed that what I believe about good learning and good technology use is still vaild - it all comes back to keeping what matters most, mattering the most... that we engage the hearts and minds of our students and challenge them through questions - RRR.
Kath Burke
Well it worked, couldn't be there Fri but after Thurs you inspired me and here I am spending the day trying ideas from Thurs and writing my first BLOG! Yesterday I didn't even know what it was!
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Lots of fantastic ideas but difficult to implement when our school has spent alot of money on purchasing IBM's and microsoft programs but all the ideas were linked to using Apple computers and software.
What an awesome presentation!! Being from generation y i found this presentation very real. I never imagined that i would see 'The End of the Word' in a professional presentation. This was a great way to open everyones eyes to just a snippet of just what is out there and what our students are looking at.
Sally
Tom was an inspirational speaker, full of practical ideas that were shared in a way where we think we may achieve some of them. I love his webpage, it is there that I will go to catch up on what we learned today.
hey mummy , wats crackin over the hill datrling
i dont now wat this website is about so please tell me
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