I do not seem to be publishing stuff here very often anymore. This is my first blog and the one I hold most dear. It is just that I have branched out. I now also, apart from my pedagogical blog, hold a food blog where I am just about to write about tonights dinner. Cheerio!
The Simple Things in Life
Thursday, July 30, 2009
I have 48 carefully selected RSS feeds. A lot of work-related stuff, some comics, and blogs like Boing Boing, Cynical-C Blog, Swissmiss and what have you. I am quite good at keeping up with it all, and I check everything out daily, even though it adds up to far over a hundred posts. Where I am getting with this though, is making the point of where my heart lies when it comes to my feeds. Fact is that if I had to take all of them away but one, I would keep “The FAIL blog”. The childishness in the humour of this stuff is just absolute dog’s bollocks (to use a crude idiom which I incidentally just learnt). The here posted clip from the FAIL-blog, I watched four times over, laughing out loud.
PS If there was one more feed I was allowed to keep, was I to loose all the rest, it would be “Cyanide and Happiness“.
In the meantime keep looking out for more of those pictures and videos of owned, pwnd and failed moments.
I’m All For It!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The above is the name of a new blog which I have finally gotten around to creating. I have for a long time wanted to have somewhere to collect and ponder on different ICT resources available and this will be where. I am hoping that the site will be of use for others and that it will help me to expand my network of people interested in using ICT in education.
Uppflyttardag (Moving Up Day)
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Every year in August a new group of children come to our team. Before everyone goes on summer holidays we invite the new kids to come and spend a day with their future friends. We do different things on these occasions, but always in groups of mixed ages (12-16). Last year we played rounders with badminton rackets and the year before that, every group made an animated film. This year we made cakes. Each group of eight students decided on a theme for their cake and made it. I think the recults were fantastic. The cakes were of course eaten at the end of the day, after each group had made a presentation of their cake and their choosen theme.
“My two Days in Heaven” or “Framtidens lärande En arena för skolutveckling, IT och lärande 19-20 May 2009″
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
To me internet and technology are indispensable tools in teaching. They allow me to make my lessons more creative and they allow me to interact with my students on a rational and creative basis. Most of all though, I see the winnings of internet and technology as a means for me and my students to learn and develop in unison. Together we will ask questions and together we will find the answers. Almost all our classrooms are now equipped with an internet connected projector. Those are in constant use and a fantastic resource for all of us.
Last week I had two of the most fabulous days of my life. I attended the convention “Framtidens lärande” (possible translations: “Future learning”, “Futures curriculum” or ”21st Century Learning”) which was arranged by a number of organisations promoting the idea of internet and technology becoming important parts of education.
Apart from all the lectures and workshops being immensely interesting, the whole convention was very competently arranged when it came to practical matters. The technology worked wonderfully. I loved the fact that we were able to post questions and comments in a twitter-like manner throughout each lecture. (They can all be read here). The food was good, the wardrobes and toilets worked excellently, as did the wireless internet, the sound was great, the seats, the timetable; well in fact everything was top notch.
Important issues raised at the convention were:
- The fact that we are in the middle of a paradigm shift. People are communicating and learning in alternative ways. We have to change the way we look at learning and teaching and we need to review our roles as teachers and students.
- The implementation of aids for internet and communication needs to be speeded on by central/national directives. The one-to-one perspective has to be what is aimed for.
- Finding the resources for technological development is more about budgeting than about funds available.
Below are videos and slide shows of some of the lectures:
Bruce Dixon “Future Learning Today and Tomorrow
Bruce Dixon, Framtidens lärande 2009 from diu redaktion on Vimeo.
Thomas Fürth from Kairos Future “I möjlighetmaximerarnas land”
Thomas Fürth, Möjlighetetsmaximerarnas land, Framtidens lärande 2009 from diu redaktion on Vimeo.
Stephen Heppel “Be Very Afraid”
Among his quotes: “Every turned off device is a potentially turned off child “
Stephen Heppell, Framtidens lärande 2009 from diu redaktion on Vimeo.
A link to some of the slide shows.