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In this entertaining and informative EDtalk, speaker, author and consultant Judith Baenen talks about five things that can keep educators from being the best they can be, and ways of overcoming them. These include the lack of achievable professional objectives, the conflict between teacher and student aspirations, and criticism of teachers.

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Erin Salmon's company, Unleash, recently opened of one of the South Island’s largest Internet Data Centres. He talks here about his own education, and the people who have been an inspiration to him as innovative and pioneering New Zealanders. Erin also outlines what he perceives as barriers to innovation, and ways these might be addressed.

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Chris Arcus is the Ministry of Education Project Manager for the NZ Curriculum. In this EDtalk Chris outlines the unique nature of the NZ curriculum, talks about some of the research findings that accompany the implementation the curriculum, and discusses some of the innovative changes that schools have undertaken as they implement the new curriculum.

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Joan Dalton from Hands on Educational Consultancy presents a compelling case for educators to reflect on the discourse of teaching and learning. As Joan says, the way we talk to each other and the language we use has a profound impact on relationships, collaborations, and students' learning.

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Dr. Mike Charles is an associate professor at Pacific University Oregon (USA) and president of the Special Interest Group for Teacher Education (SIGTE). Mike attended ULearn09 with a US study group. He offers here his thoughts on a standards based curriculum, and the threat of reducing education and learning from a cultural task to a productivity task.

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Paul Reynolds has long been well-known as an internet developer and media commentator - an authority on the digital and online world. Sadly Paul passed away in May. We were fortunate to hear him speak at the March 2010 symposium and we are pleased to be able to share his presentation here. A central provoking question in his talk was "where are the spaces for deep, reflective thinking?" and Paul provides a quick overview of many inspirational online spaces associated with galleries, libraries, archives and museums.

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Toni is a curriculum and eLearning advisor at Waikato University. In her 2010 symposium presentation Toni describes her own experiences of living and learning in the cloud as teacher and learner, providing a number of powerful examples. Toni leaves a clear message to educators; it's time to be making decisions about how we prepare students for new ways of learning.

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In this EDtalk Australian educator Tony Ryan talks about innovation in education. Tony describes his phrase "zest practice", and gives examples of what this looks like in terms of the 3 questions; what is possible for teaching and learning, what is probable and what is preferable?

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Mark is Deputy Principal of Albany Senior High School. Open source software and cloud computing have been essential in the establishment of this school, and in this presentation from the 2010 EDtalks Symposium Mark outlines his beliefs about the advantages and opportunities that open source and cloud computing bring to the students, teachers and school community.

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REANNZ Chief Executive Donald Clark opened the 2010 Symposium with his own story of using technology over the last decade or more, to illustrate the title of his presentation "The geeks shall inherit the earth". Donald includes a demonstration of connecting a school to high speed broadband, with the message that connectivity must be fast, open, cheap and ubiquitous.

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In this EDtalk Trevor Storr, Director of eLearning for a cluster of schools in Sth Canterbury and Nth Otago, describes the opportunity for collaboration and personalised learning provided by the New Zealand virtual learning network.

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Janet Akhurst has been involved in the ICTPD cluster schools programme since 2004. Janet describes her journey, and says the programme has exposed her to new ways of learning and teaching, as well as providing her with access to national and international experts through conferences and cluster collaboration.

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Ernie Newman, spokesperson for TUANZ, describes how the Government's plan to provide fibre optic connectivity to 75% of the population will mean great opportunity for schools and learning. In particular Ernie acknowledges the changing roles for teachers and learners, and the effort that needs to be directed towards maximising the potential offered by this initiative.

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Digital technologies are creating increasing opportunity for learners to become content creators instead of simply content consumers. Ease of development of content in rich, multimedia forms as well as traditional print can now be achieved with desktop applications and uploaded with ease to sites for sharing.

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Perhaps the greatest change in schools today is not the integration of technology, not the way classrooms are being built, not even the changes in curriculum and assessment, but that the role of the teacher in the classroom is being transformed in ways that we're not fully aware of or ready for. To be effective in the midst of such change teachers need to be come more critically reflective, being open to examining the deeper assumptions they have about what they are doing and why they are doing it.

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Our education is no longer confined to the school we live in - we can access courses/subjects from almost anywhere and at any time. The world is our classroom! Global connectivity now enables student driven niche learning projects - if schools and teachers allow and enable them to happen.

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There are now more hand-helds sold world-side every year than desktops, and in New Zealand there are now more mobile phones sold than the size of our population! The relative ubiquity of the hand-held over the locked-in-location limitations of the desktop, combined with the proliferation of feature sets on mobiles mean that an increasing number of people are choosing these smaller, portable devices for communicating, searching the web, storing information, and recording events, as an integral part of their lives.

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A simple way of thinking about cloud computing is to consider the idea of moving all the physical servers and applications that are located inside a school into a hosted environment outside the organisation (in the 'cloud'). The 'cloud' is not an actual physical "thing", but may be loosely thought of as a collection of networked servers. Cloud computing options will provide an attractive alternative to schools looking to spread the risk of their ICT investment

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Digital literacy refers specifically to the range of skills, knowledge and competencies required to operate effectively in a world immersed in digital technologies. Digital literacy is becoming more integrated into all aspects of our daily lives - such as access to educational opportunities, health and medical services, banking and consumer services, e-government services, and for applying Green ICT solutions to global environmental challenges.

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rom a teaching and learning perspective, ubiquitous computing enables us to think about availability of virtual mentors or teachers, and/or opportunities for peer to peer and self-paced, deeper learning. With the emergence of increasingly robust connectivity infrastructure and cheaper computers, school systems around the world are now developing the ability to provide learning opportunities to students “anytime, anywhere”. This trend requires a rethinking of the traditional ways in which schools and classes operate.

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