Marg McLeod, CORE Education Project Director for ICTPD, talks about the need for change in NZ secondary schools. Marg believes we must free ourselves from current mental models and focus on enabling learning rather than assessment outcomes.
Marg McLeod, CORE Education Project Director for ICTPD, talks about the need for change in NZ secondary schools. Marg believes we must free ourselves from current mental models and focus on enabling learning rather than assessment outcomes.
Marg McLeod, CORE Education Project Director for ICTPD, talks about the need for change in NZ secondary schools. Marg believes we must free ourselves from current mental models and focus on enabling learning rather than assessment outcomes.
Dr Scott McLeod, Associate Professor in the Educational Administration programme at Iowa State University, and Director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE) was the opening keynote speaker at the 2011 Learning@school conference in Rotorua, New Zealand. In his presentation Scott describes trends, changes and shifts in education, and challenges us to think about how we might address these challenges.
Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth) is an Associate Professor in Learning Technologies at the University of Plymouth. Steve was a keynote speaker atULearn10, and in this EDtalk he talks about open education resources. Steve makes the claim that open education resources will be the death of traditional publishing.
Professor John Hattie asks if teachers in their critical role as change agents, are too focused on the short term horizon - national standards, literacy and numeracy - when they should be focused on using literacy and numeracy to engage more students in the pursuit of learning.
