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Entries from October 2, 2008

Day 3 ACEC’08

October 2, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Keith Kruger Keynote from CoSN Talking on the Macro level Research from around the World. Some of it is pretty damming! More recent study (e.g. Becta 2007) indicates there are difference with specific support. Cisco study suggested that we promised too much for technology. Educator/Student Disconnect. Schools are becocming less representative of the world outside. [...]

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Day 2 at ACEC’08

October 1, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized

First Session: Liz Murphy First part really dull and patronising, just a travalogue!!  Last part challenged me a lot more. The idea that it really is easy to bring these things together. The concept that she has gone out and found business and used her teachers skills to produce stuff was a real challenge to [...]

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