World of Difference

a world of difference

John Davitt

22nd September 2009

www.newtools.org

make it

face it

Image courtesy of Wordle.netA curriculum is many differentpaths to the same destination

www.wordle.net #2

Different ways to share#1

How do you like your..

Toast & directions

Acknowledge Difference

Difference Bingo /

hunch.com #3

The acknowledged need tends to diminish

Key points explained soon

Write in pen or pencil

Follow Map with finger

Yes this is a

Tuesday

We will have some fun exploring

Trace round your phone on piece of paper

There will be a talking sheep soon

Left..don’t care right..bothered

The sensory matrix for content & activity random

see

hear

feel

touchBermudatriangle

4 cylinder learningeg a field trip

The whole Enchilada

The chessboard beyond the square of talk look listen write

solviturambulando

gpsmission #4.moon

Docendo discitur

Free Legs just email leg tojohndavitt@mac.com

File or DIY property/ range of files

sequences from www.newtools.org

The difference engine runs againWhen the digital revolution finally came upon us we missed some of its impact at first. We thought computers but we also should have thought tools & activities and risk.Have we made enough difference with these tools or do we need a dispensation adjust ..S&N?

Questions in future

Answers in the past learn

thanx4a4?

Nelson

Mix Digital concrete

Keep learning active & provide good formative feedback research proves it

Work on the Active/Passive axis

Build your own curriculum wiki

Make learners as important as shoppers? /steal eg Commoncraft #5

Struggleware & Smuggleware

Chase the endorphins of enthusiasm

Managing Difference

Final thoughts..

Encourage ebb & flow.. lifetime of learning

Every school its own BBC? Lid Zone it

Embrace the “age of adhocracy” twitteresque cpd

Walk many paths even the 10 cent curriculum

Celebrate the learning curve ?

Open the bandwidth of talents modality mix

So…Time for.. Gov translation

Making things

Telling stories How can new tools help us amplify, extend

and share?

Creativity & constraint leg et al

Otherwise history will say „‟they had what tools..they did what with them?”

An understanding

Some file types to

come alongside text

I. MP3 Audacity et al

II. JPEG Photostory 3

III. Flash

IV. Animation

V. QuickTime Movie dog sheep

Participative & personalised yet?

The barcodes are coming QR codes and Microsoft TAGiPods with eyes etc

Fujitsu Fi60f

Success came not just from the large hardware investment But also from the small ubiquitous device and the locus of control was close to the teacher and the learner. Formal education is a mayfly moment here

Keep drive the locus of control near the teacher and learner.

Now is a time for more Theseus less Sisyphus 2More connected learning and sharing web 2 lives

less pointless repetitive labour that takes us no further stringstone

explore

John Davitt

www.newtools.org

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johndavitt@mac.com

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Cooliris #5

Twitcam #6 sheep?

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