ccclearning

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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Questions about elearning will be explored in this collective ideas gathering session with Thought Leaders.
Overarching Question
What’s it worth to ‘know’Systemic changes will only come about if people are convinced that there is value in new ways of knowing and learning - but put it crudely, if the benefits outweigh the investment.Systemic changes will only come [...]

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Global Head of Learning, Reuters

taking the training out of organisational learing
(taking the e out of elearning, not t-telephoning,f-faxing … it’s just communication)
Reuters - we’re part of the problem. We publish the equivalent of 20 King James bibles a day. Connect to 1 billion people a day>
Reuters opens first virtual news bureau in Second Life>
The two [...]

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Pro-Vice Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), University of Sydney

Professor Judyth Sachs has held academic positions at the University of Queensland, Griffith University and the University of Sydney. She took up the position of Professor of Education the University of Sydney in 1996. In the faculty of Education she was Pro- Dean from 1999-2001 and Chair of [...]

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This is a rare opportunity to engage with Thought Leaders in another collective ideas gathering session based around the thoughts of one of the pioneers in the use of computers for learning.
Overarching question
How can teachers help people to ‘know’?
table 2. How can teachers best function in a world of knowledge that they no longer control?
 
technorati [...]

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Fire side chat across time & space: Seymour Papert will join us via videoconference to converse with Professor James Bosco about the ideas explored so far.

Dr. Papert left South Africa to pursue doctoral studies at Cambridge where he received a doctorate in mathematics. He then pursued his post-doctoral studies in Paris, which he found more [...]

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 Professor James Bosco will provide an overview of summit discussion so far and where we are heading with Technology Connected Futures.
We heard the word learning often. In the US I would hear it a lot less than ‘achievment.’
they are not synoomous
Gardener’s (multiple intelligences) daughter got good results “But dad, I never understood it” abridged version
Use myself [...]

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http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/seminar
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Overarching questions
How can structures help people to ‘know’?
2. What structures are needed?

this time looking for a synthesis of ideas (not a consensus) rather than a lot of dot points or jotted down notes [...]

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