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So far Joel Birch has created 16 blog entries.

Redefinition in E Major (REM?)

Last week I attended a workshop that drew together Challenge Based Learning, online learning, and Ruben Puentedura's SAMR model of technology adoption.  As always, there was a lot of conversation around how applications of different technologies to learning in context is classified as Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and the big elusive one, Redefinition. To me, this video is a stunning example of how technology has redefined an experience into something previously inconceivable. [...]

Categories: Communicating with Technology, Thinking|

STORY: A GPS-enhanced excursion.

Keeping an entire group of students engaged and active throughout an entire excursion is not always an easy task.  Especially when they're secondary students.  Especially when it's a multi-school team building day.  Especially when they have pockets full of smartphones. At this point, we have a choice.  We can continue to bash our heads against these difficulties and create behaviour management issues every step of the way, or we can accept [...]

Categories: Uncategorized|

PD Jumpstart – Following International Conferences

[VIDEO: James Surowiecki discusses the notion of trusting eyewitnesses via social media, crosschecked by the topic they're posting under.  Not essential viewing, but a great primer.] The more I connect with lively, innovative educators outside of my hometown the more I find my feet getting itchy to go and visit them to see firsthand how learning and professional development happens in their schools.  Certainly when I have taken the plunge to [...]

Categories: Investigating with Technology|

Real Data & Global Education

There's plenty of buzz around about data, visualisation, and how we can best make use of it in the classroom.  David McCandless demonstrates it better than most in his TED Talk "The Beauty of Data Visualisation." That's all well and good, but that data's not always the easiest thing to get hold of in a form that's raw enough to turn into something accurate and powerful, and actually processing it is [...]

Categories: Communicating with Technology, Investigating with Technology|Tags: , , |

Free Button Generator

  For those who were at our holiday workshops or those who maintain a website to use with their students or colleagues, here's a handy little freebie. Remember how we made text links in our Posts & Pages?  If you do exactly the same thing, but with an image instead, it turns the picture into a clickable link.  Da Button Factory lets you create nice clean custom buttons to use as [...]

Categories: Web Tools|Tags: , , , |
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