Edubeacon

This week, Jane Hart’s Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has announced the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009.  278 worldwide learning professionals contributed to the voting including Australian education leaders Glenn McMahon and Elaine Talbot. Twitter is top of the list as one would expect.  It’s knocked Delicious from the top of the list.  [...]

School’s back in full swing this week and with it the expectations being articulated to the fresh group of Year 12 students as they prepare for their final year while Year 7′s are just beginning the secondary journey.  Reading the Federal Government’s ‘consultation’ draft of the digital economy future directions paper one cannot help but [...]

This evening I’ve been spent some time reading the latest posts of George Siemens on his Connectivism blog.  It’s not the type of reading you’d wish to do after writing 80-90 student reports as many teachers are this week, however,  it does present an opportunity to think about the value of what is happening in [...]