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Rethinking Conferences and Summits

October 24th, 2006 · No Comments

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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Global Summit 06 - the programme + my posts

October 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

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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GlobalSummit06 - Continue the Dialogue

October 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

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
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GlobalSummit06 - Closing Comments

October 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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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James Bosco - Global Summit overview

October 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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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Global Summit - Table 2 Question 5

October 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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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GlobalSummit06 - Jean Johnson

October 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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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GlobalSummit06 - Geetha Narayanan

October 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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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Global Summit - Table 2 Question 4

October 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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 Summit - Charles Jennings

October 18th, 2006 · No Comments

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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