ccclearning

NB this is a deliberate cross post with my class blog http://alupton.wordpress.com/  
I believe it has an illustrative purpose here …
Well here we are - day two together this term. What a cool group of kids you are - all those comments and links to what we talked about yesterday! It really looks like you can [...]

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This post will be more than the title suggests. I will probably change the title.
I want to spend a bit more time with the minilegends before reflecting back here.
There are definite comments I want to get down and thoughts I want to weave together and make sense of. As alien as it has been returning to the classroom, I [...]

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This will be my main post and I’ll attach all my posts and the podcasts and various other links (eg fellow bloggers) when I can get back to it.
Right now I have to return to the classroom and cannot contribute to the ongoing dialogue as I want. I will, of course, be functioning in ways [...]

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Connect to the Global Summit forum, brought to you by EdNA Online, to continue the discussion on issues arising.
http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar
Check out the podcasts
http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/
delegates only link at this stage
technorati tags:GlobalSummit06

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Closing comments from Gerry White, CEO of education.au limited
Hearing about careers underpins the fact that education has to change.
Thankyous and flowers to all education.au people who have got it all goind and kept it going. Thanks to the Thought Leaders.
This ends this stage of strategic conversation but it doesn’t end the strategic converstaion. (There will [...]

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Professor James Bosco will overview the themes explored, the issues identified and the questions answered and unanswered.
 
edna groups key is ‘xxxxxxoo’
http://groups.edna.edu.au
thought we were about to engage in futuraology. have a sense of expectations realised.
“it is much easier to talk about the future than the present” Around the table we have tried to discern the present [...]

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National Career Development Policy                    - CICA
Creating a national career develoopment culture - why bother?
What do I have to offer?/
Where do I want to be?
Who needs what I have?
Who will pay for it?
Bother because career is rarely linear.
career development is a public and  a private good
Career is the sequence of work
Career Development is the lifelong process [...]

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In this session Thought Leaders will engage us in discussion about technology as an enabler or excluder to learning.
Some overall questions
1. What gets in the way of giving learners what we require for the future?
2. Why are we still doing the same old things when we know better? table 2
3. Why are most people using [...]

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Notschool.net, UK  - A leading researcher on the effect of technology on our lives and behaviour will join us via videoconference from the UK to present the latest ideas in this field.
Jean Johnson has worked in the education field for 25 years following a spell in industry. In 1993 she began working with new technologies [...]

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Director of Mallya Aditi International School

An active proponent of change as development, Geetha Narayanan has been involved in education for the past two decades as a teacher, a teacher educator, a researcher and an instructional designer.
She is the Managing Trustee of a not-for -profit educational trust that she helped found in 1984. She is the [...]

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