Last weekend I attended the English Teachers’ Association Annual Conference in NSW, which was held at the University of NSW on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th of November. The conference theme was ‘Hit Refresh!’, so it was apt that this was the first conference we have run that had an officially constructed online aspect, using [...]
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28 Nov
Online Pedagogy
In today’s conference workshop I will be exploring four important issues relating to learning and teaching strategies for using online tools:
How the purpose of your site relates to its form
The intended teacher-student dynamic online
Students and internet safety
Getting students involved and monitoring contributions
Please respond with comments to this post if you have any questions, information or [...]
26 Nov
Connectivism
Thanks to Darcy for tweeting this link to the Connectivism Wiki.
There are some great ideas here – I especially like the entry on Externalising Ourselves. I am going to use a quote from this in my ETA Conference presentation on Saturday about Online Learning and Pedagogy:
The ability to connect concepts and ideas and to understand [...]
20 Sep
Miranda Devine is a Hack
Miranda Devine writes in the SMH today that English teachers have lost the plot, and criticises the English Teachers’ Association for hating books, plays and poems, and language in general really.
Hmmm. I wonder, what is more likely…
That English teachers hate books, OR that they think students need to know how to understand and create spoken [...]
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