Author Archives: Derek

TeachMeet

By Derek | Published: March 29, 2010

TeachMeet is an informal gathering of those curious about teaching and technology. Anyone can share great ideas they’ve trialled in their classrooms, ask important questions or simply sign up to take part in learning conversations. Both Primary and Secondary teachers are welcome to take part in an informal and fun meeting. You can come along [...]

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Passing notes on the IWB back channel

By Derek | Published: March 26, 2010

As an Interactive White Board (IWB) newbie and the  mercenary Ed Tech man, I thought it a good idea to master the newly installed giant touch screens to prove my learning tech credentials. It’s quite common to call IWB’s Smartboards, but that’s like calling a vacuum cleaner a Hoover or a spreadsheet program Excel.  You [...]

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Recipe for a connected educator

By Derek | Published: March 25, 2010

Give your teacher a computer, preferably a cheap one, install  software and other learning technologies and then when they complete your introductory course (with gold embossed certificate), reward their efforts with a voucher for a months free Internet connection. Simple – we’ve got a connected educator. Or maybe not. I’ve set up a straw man proposal, and I’m [...]

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mLearning

By Derek | Published: March 2, 2010

Frustrated students are starting to doubt the future of progress. For the past two weeks I’ve inflicted a Mobile code hunt on their them, in attempt to demonstrate that mobile phones have potential outside the walls of the classroom.  They’ve sat, squinted and swore for an hour trying to figure out how to download a QR [...]

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Differentiated Tasks

By Derek | Published: February 25, 2010

William M. Ferriter’s article is Why Teachers Should Try Twitter is more about differentiated instruction than Twitter. When I read it, I thought – here’s a note to self – time to explore how technology can be leveraged so that  “students of different abilities, interest or learning needs” can use  different learning paths so that [...]

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Digital Pocket Knives

By Derek | Published: February 23, 2010

I’ve been wondering, when the mobile phone has shown such an amazing penetration rate, why students aren’t using their mobile phones as a digital “pocket knife” for personal and lifelong learning? Although our Internet penetration here in South Africa is disturbingly low, we are not “backwards” with cell phone adoption. The penetration rate in South [...]

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Students networking with Students

By Derek | Published: February 17, 2010

There’s a range of people in my Ed Tech PGCE class this year. Some are very sussed, and others are finding computers a frightening prospect. This morning a small co-hort of about 10 PGCE students (many of them very new to computers) joined me while I demonstrated copying, cropping and adding effects to their class [...]

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Does it have to be so hard?

By Derek | Published: February 11, 2010

Hostname, username, computername, network, password, submit – are words that I see everyday and respond to without thinking. This jargon however, is a foreign language to a person on the other side of the digital donga. Yet the terms are thrust as a greeting at the struggling “digital immigrant”, aware of an information avalanche, threatened [...]

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Filling in Digital Dongas

By Derek | Published: February 8, 2010

In a world where an estimated 90% of email is spam it’s irresponsible for universities to hand out free email addresses to those trying to climb out of the digital donga. So, as a service to my pre-service PGCE teachers, an addition to your student diary.

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Knowledgeable or knowledge-able

By Derek | Published: February 2, 2010

Class teachers should ask themselves whether they intend to use Information and Communications Technology to make themselves more knowledgeable or their students more knowledge-able. Or will this responsibility be left to rapid technological change and inherent generational characteristics. From Knowledgeable To Knowledge-Able View more presentations from Derek Moore.

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