Another instalment in Darcy Moore’s blogging of suggestions around 10 things ‘a school’ can do in preparation for 1:1 (laptops) in classrooms
Darcy has been doing a great job collating ideas received from an ever expanding Professional Learning Network via Twitter.
Have a look at the SlideShare presentation to see some of the ‘tweets’ offering advice.
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For anybody wondering about the possible value of Twitter beyond knowing what some celebrity had for breakfast….  here is a short selection of posts from a Sunday morning.  Please feel free to hit the link where it says ‘Comments’ or ‘No Comments’ and post your ideas, or coments, or whatever.
Good resources, via Twitter
10 Great ways [...]

Recent media about the L4L rollout and parent aceptance of conditions at this link.  Excerpt below

STUDENTS and parents will have to sign a “user agreement” that they will not misuse or mistreat the new laptop computers to be rolled out in schools from next term.
But the Rees Government still expects to write off about $10 [...]

One of the issues these days is that there is just simply SO MUCH information out there.  It floats around us, as if we exist at the middle of a large soup, with floating blobs of information: some tasty bits and some we would prefer to avoid.
One of our challenges is to assist learners to [...]

What or who are you going to stick on the outside of your L4L Laptop?

I woke up this morning
I suddenly realised
We’re all in this together
I started smiling
‘Cause you were smiling
And we’re all in this together
I’m made of atoms
You’re made of atoms
And we’re all in this together.
And long division just doesn’t matter
‘Cause we’re all in this together…yeah
Thanks Ben Lee

Wait till the end! A great vision!

When, What, Who &  How
Why: must be obvious that we need to work closely with our Parents/Community to keep them informed AND then…
When:mmm do we know enough yet? When will you plan to provide information that is reliable?
What:provide them with skills & knowledge of the L4L programme, communication, presentations, hands on workshops…
Who: is coordinating Parent & [...]

We would once have said ‘school’… Is it still a school?

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