Literacy and Subject Areas

I'm really pleased to see that there is talk - and action - around the importance of teaching writing and reading in subject areas from prschool to university. Most exciting is hearing that it is growing in importance as a discussion area at high school level. We have technology teachers at our intermediate, who need to be aware of the reading and writing abilities (and numeric) of their students and how they too must scaffold learning to write explanations, procedures or reports.

This UACEL webinar was a step forward for our school - a staff meeting in real time, through the internet and projected onto the screen in the staffroom.

http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/centres/uacel/newsletter

Problem Based Learning

I'm finding out about this for school - it was introduced before I got to Mokoia and is another inquiry model. I wonder whether it is too conceptual for many of our kids?
I like the Allandale Model for inquiry because it pegs the stages to pictures - visual memory aids of the stages.

Problem Based Learning

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Emerging Technologies

Westley Field impressed me at ULearn with his look at where our learning environments are going. His was the next step from that we've been hearing for the last ten years.

5 Tips For E_Safety

Ken Robinson on Creativity

You have to watch this - compulsory viewing and encapsulates what is wrong with our current system of education.