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 Innovative 21st Century Teaching and Learning | Adrian Bertolini | February 28th, 2010 @ 11:57PM | 0 Comments | 21 Steps to 21st Century Learning-- Planning |
| It is interesting when you start reading out of your field how many interesting ideas one discovers that are applicable to education. Ken Blanchard is one of the world leading experts on management and leadership. He is the author of a series of books called the “One Minute Manager”. He, and his team, have sold millions of books and empowered managers and leaders in a range of industries... |
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 Bruce Dixon | February 16th, 2010 @ 7:21AM | 1 Comments | ASB Unplugged 2010 |
| Great to see our list of pre-conference readings is steadily growing. Hope you've all had time to look over them. If you have any other articles or links that you think might be relevant background reading for our workshop next week at ASB Unplugged, please add them to our resource/reading list. |
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Innovative 21st Century Teaching and Learning | Adrian Bertolini | February 10th, 2010 @ 9:38AM | 0 Comments | AALF members |
| I have just been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book, What the Dog Saw (Allen Lane, 2009), and one of the articles in the book had me thinking. In this particular chapter of the book called “Open Secrets” Malcolm discusses a distinction made by a national security expert (Gregory Treverton) between puzzles and mysteries and the different skills involved. Something is a puzzle when we... |
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Bruce Dixon | January 18th, 2010 @ 9:10PM | 0 Comments |
| One of the first questions I've always been asked by schools considering, or just implementing 1-to-1 initiatives, is around research. "What research is there to support 1-to-1?" Currently on aalf.org we have links to more than seventy research papers around 1-to-1. Is that enough to start with? Well evidently not, given my recent observations. It appears that despite the volume of work that... |
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 Susan Einhorn | January 14th, 2010 @ 1:19PM | 0 Comments |
| Ring, buzz, ring, buzz. At holiday time, with everyone home and friends and relatives visiting, it’s easy to be driven batty by the number of personal electronic devices going off when I just want to visit with friends, have a family dinner, or enjoy some quiet time. No matter where I am, something is buzzing, ringing, singing, vibrating, or just being totally distracting. Telling everyone... |
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 Joe Hofmeister | January 14th, 2010 @ 1:14PM | 2 Comments |
| I haven't had my flu shot yet, the one that is supposed to save me from the dread H1N1. This is not because I am negligent or uninformed about the dangers of this new virus. I'm just not in an age group that is the target of this virus so I'll have to wait until more serum is available. The experts say that some of us may not need it, at least not urgently, because we are immune to the... |
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herry huang | January 13th, 2010 @ 4:32AM | 0 Comments |
| Batteries in portable consumer devices such as a laptop, camcorder, cellular phone, etc., are typically made using either Nickel Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) or Lithium Ion (Li-ion) battery cell chemistry. Each type of rechargeable battery chemistry has its own unique characteristics: Ni-Cd and Ni-MH: The main difference between the two is that Ni-MH battery (the newer... |
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John Greatwall | December 21st, 2009 @ 4:42AM | 0 Comments |
| http://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 saves the computers BIOS setup configuration, which allows the system to efficiently reboot once it... |
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Susan Einhorn | November 11th, 2009 @ 1:54PM | 0 Comments |
| This 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 in one month (and a 30-day month at that!). That comes to 1667 words a day for 30 days. Doesn't... |
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Bruce Dixon | November 11th, 2009 @ 1:02PM | 0 Comments |
| In 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 professionals, but to those who honestly reflect on past performance, behavior and attitudes that might at... |
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