The Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation
Transforming Learning Through Universal Access to Technology
Welcome to AALF's website!
The goal of the Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation (AALF) is to ensure that all children have access to unlimited opportunities to learn anytime and anywhere and that they have the tools that make this possible. To achieve this, AALF helps schools develop visionary leadership and knowledgeable, innovative educators.
We want to hear from you!
Do you have any stories, thoughts or ideas concerning student assessment and how it is documented? If so, please share them with us!
What Blogs and Twitterers do you follow? Check out our list here, and send us your favorites!
Also, this year we will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of 1-to-1, and will be devoting an issue to this important benchmark. If you have any stories you'd like to share about the early years of 1-to-1, please let us know.
Latest Blog Posts
Read recently published entries from AALF member's blogs. Any AALF member can have their blog listed here, all you have to do is write a new entry.
What's the best laptop battery?
John Greatwall | December 21http://www.top-battery.com.au/ A: CMOS & clock backup batteries perform the same function in desktop and laptop computers: when the computer is turned off, the battery maintains the time and date, thus insuring their accuracy when the system is once again restarted. More importantly, the battery...
My Own Personal Learning
Susan Einhorn | November 11This month I'm focusing on project-based learning. No, not for students or even the Foundation. I'm focusing on it for me. Early this year I signed up to participate in National Novel Writing Month, held every November. My project? I, and all NaNoWriMo participants, must write a 50,000-word book...
Developing the Professional
Bruce Dixon | November 11In recent months I've become more convinced we are finally backing up the discussion around the role of teachers from one of trade to one of craft; from one that is a job, to one that is truly a profession...with some serious action. I know we all work on the assumption that we are all...
School Spotlight
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS FOR HALE MIDDLE SCHOOL Hale School, a large independent boys' school in Perth, Australia, has taught boys for generations. In 2003, Hale School introduced a 1-to-1 notebook programme in Years 7, 8 and 9. I lead the introduction of the 1-to-1 programme in Year 7 in the Junior School in my dual role as Year 7 teacher and Head of Junior School. I've now been appointed the inaugural Head of Middle School at Hale School, which will cater to 400 boys in a purpose built centre comprising Years 7 and 8. Click here to learn more about Hale Middle School. In Transforming Learning: An Anthology of Miracles in Technology-rich Classrooms, Michael King reflects upon his experience as an English teacher at Bishops, an independent fee-paying school in Cape Town, South Africa. In 1999 the school launched its laptop program, after two years of planning and preparation. He was given a year 9 group; boys aged 14- 15 years old. This article comprises of a summary of his experiences during the first year of the program, as well as an update from King himself concerning the state of the programme today.
By Michael Valentine
Head of Hale Middle School
FEATURE STORY
Reflections from Experience: Renewing the Buzz of Being a Teacher
October 22, 2009
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