This is a free, online conference conducted over two and a half weeks by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. Running from September 20 through to October 5 with daily webinars, online conversations, presentations, learning resources, videos and more, it will be the place to learn and be heard for anyone who has a stake in improving education. Check out the full schedule of webinars here.
Included are presentations from education leaders such as Bernie Trilling, co-author of 21st Century Skills, also featured are examples of how leading schools, districts and states are implementing policies and practices to ensure that students graduate prepared for success. School libraries get a guernsey with the webinar:
Engaging 21st Century Skills in the Middle with Leslie Preddy, AASL 2010 National School Library Media Program of the Year winner and 2010 Indiana Teacher of the Year Finalist.
This looks good and well worth tapping into during the holiday break.
Started another series of Personal Learning sessions today. Over the next few weeks we’ll take the journey of exploring Web 2.0 resources and their application to the classroom. It’s not difficult to work with teachers and learning assistants who come along with a real willingness to learn. This video helps to lighten the learning as it perfectly sums up the effort required to introduce changed practices while continuing with the regular hectic daily pace.
It’s timely to revisit the article I wrote last year about the value of an educator’s Personal Learning Network and the role of the teacher-librarian in supporting school staff to building and developing a network suited to their individual needs.
These videos from a range of European and US universities include Daniel Pink, Henry Jenkins and others. Each video is between five and ten minutes long and tackles some of the ways that shifts in the media environment are changing the nature of stories and storytelling.
It’s fascinating to read about the trial distribution of Kindle ebook readers to school age children in Ghana. The non-profit organisation at the centre of the project, Worldreader, was co-founded by David Risher, a former Amazon senior vice president. We’ve seen how mobile phones and Nicholas Negroponte’s one-laptop-per-child project have changed the face of learning and connectivity on the African continent. This momentum is now spreading to e-books which are being seen as an opportunity to leapfrog ahead in confronting literacy issues.
This week in Australia we celebrate CBCA Book Week as an opportunity to focus on quality Australian writing for the young. In our school libraries we welcome such events as a week or two to nurture reading enjoyment and literacy. It’s worth spending a moment or two considering how our programs compare with the learning that is being explored in developing countries such as Ghana and other African regions. The similarities and the differences, all with literacy as a focus.
Educating our students is a collective responsibility. As educators and leaders in schools we often wonder if we are providing the best possible education for our students.\nThis series of Professional Learning sessions will explore the complexities that we are faced with when working through these three main areas -\n\n* Learning Culture\n* Learning Paradigms\n* Learning Spaces\nTHIS WEEK – Greg Whitby – Catholic Education, Parramatta Diocese, NSW
An occasional paper on digital media and learning. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Shareable media sets — collections of open-licensed photos, diagrams, maps, audio, video, etc. that could be used by teachers or students in word-processed documents or presentations or used to create web sites or other multimedia presentations.
Russia has sweltered under an intense heatwave since mid-July, recording its highest ever temperatures. The heat has caused widespread drought, ruined crops and encouraged wildfires that have blanketed Moscow in smog and now threaten key nuclear sites. According to the head of Moscow’s health department, the city’s daily death rate has doubled – up to 700 from the usual average of 360 to 380.
The Math 2.0 interest group holds weekly events online on Wednesdays around 9:30 pm or Saturdays 2pm Eastern USA time. The goals are to share resources, to collaborate on our projects, and to save mathematics from its current obscurity in social media. From the comfort of your browser, join live conversations and debates with authors, community leaders, and innovators in mathematics education.
Time often doesn’t suit Australians, however, it’s possible to revisit the recorded session to get the presentation without participation.
Electronic reading devices are transforming the concept of a book. Digital tools advance beyond screens that talk and play videos, connecting readers to authors and online fan communities.
Free software available for school netbooks. The OpenEducationDisc focuses solely on meeting educational needs of students of all ages. Software has been chosen to address specific IT needs across a wide range of subject areas.
Australian libraries and library associations have got together to turn 2012 into the National Year of Reading, linking together all the great things that are already happening around books, reading and literacy, and giving them an extra boost, with inspirational programs and events taking place across the country.
This is a comprehensive guide to some of the information and data concerning the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the clean-up efforts. Includes links to resources on the incident, economic, environmental and social aspects as well as background to oil industry in the region.
An excellent blog post tracing the transition of the Internet from its social identity into the semantic web. Emerging trends are the growth of data being uploaded by governments and business and the ‘Internet of Things” involving all the devices and applications interacting online.
Although this is Joyce’s first visit to Australia, she is well known within the school library network and a member of many of our Personal Learning Networks. She is internationally renowned within the education and library communities for her innovative and practical approach to learning and the changing nature of schooling, the delivery of learning resources and development of a digitally literate community.
I don’t normally promote events via my blog but is this is going to be a fabulous day for all educators interested in the integration of Web 2.0 resources into learning and for library staff seeking to guide students in today’s rich online environment. Use this registration brochure or visit the SLAV website.
