“Hey Mr Tulley, if you think Americans are overprotective of their kids, you should see Indonesians!”
Running a school brings us into close contact with parents, and they come in various shapes and sizes. There are parents who leave education 100% up to the school, and there are some who check with the teacher on a [...]
Entries from July 2008
OVERPROTECTIVE PARENTS
December 30th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Child safety · Parenting
THE HORIZON REPORT 2007
December 25th, 2007 · No Comments
The annual Horizon Report identifies emerging technologies that are likely to have a major impact on teaching and learning. While this report is concerned specifically with higher education, its conclusions generally apply to K-12 education as well. The report describes six areas of emerging technology that will impact education within three adoption horizons, ie. one [...]
Tags: Horizon Report · technology
ICT FOR TEACHERS
December 19th, 2007 · No Comments
Rumah Sakit Sukabumi
If you think RSS is a hospital in Sukabumi, that blogging is logging in bogs, that web 2.0 is the set for Spiderman II, and that this (see photo) is podcasting, then you need ICT (Intra Cranial reTraining).
Retrain your brain
And what’s the best way to retrain your brain? With PLNs or PLEs, of [...]
Tags: ICT · personal learning networks · podcasting · professional development
TEN DAYS, FIVE SCHOOLS
December 19th, 2007 · No Comments
December 1
On the first Saturday of the month, I attended the opening promotion for Cambridge International School Indonesia, in Permata Hijau, Jakarta. This school will open in TA 08/09, another international school targeting Indonesians, using the Cambridge system. I took the opportunity to catch up with the MC Dez Breau, whom I first met at [...]
BLOGGING IS 10!
December 17th, 2007 · No Comments
According to Wikipedia, today, December 17th, 2007 is the 10th birthday of the Weblog. In less than one month I hit 64, which may make me a record ‘aged blogger’. To celebrate the 10th birthday of blogging, Steve Hargadon, the creator of Classroom 2.0, has created a blog site (Celebrating Educational Blogging) to honor blogging [...]
Tags: Blogging
THE STORY OF STUFF
December 16th, 2007 · No Comments
“From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between [...]
Tags: stuff