Spotty as they are, I'm posting my notes from workshops at the EARCOS conference. The first entry is from a talk that Ian Jukes gave. Jukes was probably the key presenter. Unfortunately, I can access Jukes' blog because the company that controls our internet access has his site blocked for some reason.
Ian Jukes
From Gutenberg to Gates to Google (and beyond)
People don’t need four year degrees anymore.
People have filters and hear what they want. Many in education think that they are immune to change.
It’s hard to think how inventions will change things. The applications go beyond the original plan. The power of Gutenberg’s press came from the impact it had on the transfer of information.
Gates revolution happened in fast forward. Things are happening even much more quickly now. Change is going on at an exponential rate.
By 2012 information will double every 72 hours. We have to prepare our students to be flexible and creative.
Look up Epaper and see how that works.
Look up Google language tools
The singularity is near. (He has an image of the Borg on screen.)
See his blogs and websites at The Committed Sardine: thecommittedsardine.net or ianjukes.com
The message that Jukes gave us was one that has been going around for a while in various forms. Are teachers ready for change?
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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Friday, April 13, 2007
Back from Earcos and off to work again
The two week spring break has just ended and it's back to work again. I spent almost a week of the break in Bangkok for the annual EARCOS conference. The conference was excellent as usual, especially for a technology teacher; there were so many tech oriented workshops that I really had to work to decide which ones to attend and which ones to skip.
As I'm updating this page, I'm also noticing what I wrote here in December when I came back from a tech seminar in Jakarta. The message was pretty much the same in both Bangkok and Jakarta, although the depth was better in Bangkok. As I wrote in December: Blogs, wikis, websites, podcast, IM are all tech tools that were mentioned, but I've already used all of them.
During the last term, I started having my students work on this wiki (www.wikiplaces.wetpaint.com) for students to post pictures and text about Indonesia, especially the islands that we spend time on. We're going to continue working on this project over the next term in addition to several other web-based projects which I'm still working on.
As usual, the EARCOS conference encouraged me to keep on working in the direction that I've been moving over the past decade with some upgrades in thought and direction. Ian Jukes was one of the main keynoters at the conference, and I have to say he was impressive. I've heard a lot of what he said before, but it was great to hear it again. He has a very engaging speaking style. Wish I could do that.
We are going to place more student work on our school website, but after some suggestions from colleagues in Bangkok, we will password protect the student work.
I want to do some more podcasting work this term as well as finishing up the movies that we started last term. Our major problem with making movies is that our hardware is too outdated to perform the tasks that we want it to perform. We did buy two iMacs for movie work and the students love them. We're thinking about moving to a Mac base (specifically laptops) in the near future, but we have a lot of selling to do before that large jump becomes reality.
On another track, I did a check on the search terms used for this site and came up with some interesting stats. The overwhelming keyword was "Sumbawa" versus a year ago when the number one term was "Papua." More than half the keywords involved job searches for various schools in Asia. There were a number of keywords relating to math as well. And for the main surprise, there were six searches for my name. Hmm, I wonder who's looking for me.
On yet another track, I'm creating a new page for the Sumbawa.org site for selling our house in Sumbawa. The kids have made it clear that they want to move back to Bali once I've finished teaching here. As much as I love our house in Sekongkang, and as much as I love this village, we just won't be able to afford keeping four houses going during my retirement. So if you want to move to a lovely, somewhat remote island in Indonesia, check out the new page(www.sumbawa.org/houseforsale). We're looking at a sale date of June 2008.
As I'm updating this page, I'm also noticing what I wrote here in December when I came back from a tech seminar in Jakarta. The message was pretty much the same in both Bangkok and Jakarta, although the depth was better in Bangkok. As I wrote in December: Blogs, wikis, websites, podcast, IM are all tech tools that were mentioned, but I've already used all of them.
During the last term, I started having my students work on this wiki (www.wikiplaces.wetpaint.com) for students to post pictures and text about Indonesia, especially the islands that we spend time on. We're going to continue working on this project over the next term in addition to several other web-based projects which I'm still working on.
As usual, the EARCOS conference encouraged me to keep on working in the direction that I've been moving over the past decade with some upgrades in thought and direction. Ian Jukes was one of the main keynoters at the conference, and I have to say he was impressive. I've heard a lot of what he said before, but it was great to hear it again. He has a very engaging speaking style. Wish I could do that.
We are going to place more student work on our school website, but after some suggestions from colleagues in Bangkok, we will password protect the student work.
I want to do some more podcasting work this term as well as finishing up the movies that we started last term. Our major problem with making movies is that our hardware is too outdated to perform the tasks that we want it to perform. We did buy two iMacs for movie work and the students love them. We're thinking about moving to a Mac base (specifically laptops) in the near future, but we have a lot of selling to do before that large jump becomes reality.
On another track, I did a check on the search terms used for this site and came up with some interesting stats. The overwhelming keyword was "Sumbawa" versus a year ago when the number one term was "Papua." More than half the keywords involved job searches for various schools in Asia. There were a number of keywords relating to math as well. And for the main surprise, there were six searches for my name. Hmm, I wonder who's looking for me.
On yet another track, I'm creating a new page for the Sumbawa.org site for selling our house in Sumbawa. The kids have made it clear that they want to move back to Bali once I've finished teaching here. As much as I love our house in Sekongkang, and as much as I love this village, we just won't be able to afford keeping four houses going during my retirement. So if you want to move to a lovely, somewhat remote island in Indonesia, check out the new page(www.sumbawa.org/houseforsale). We're looking at a sale date of June 2008.
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Road Trips
I'm in the middle of a week road trip to Bangkok, and am sitting at a broadband computer in the Emporium on Sukhumvit. What an incredible experience to be able to ask for a website and then receive it almost instantly.
I just finished a three day EARCOS conference and will post my notes on the workshops for those who are interested. (I have to write them up anyway for work.)Friday I went and had a laser tooth cleaning done at my dentist in Bangkok. It's been hard for me to see much of a difference, but when I showed up at the conference the day after, my colleagues noticed. So that has been nice. Unfortunately I have four cavities which need to be filled Monday night. Monday during the day, I have my first complete physical in many years; I want to see how the old body is doing, and the visit will give me a chance to get my ankle checked since it still isn't right.
Time to get out and eat and finish up the days work. I'm planning on spending a quiet evening in the hotel tonight eating, reading, writing and watching tv.
I just finished a three day EARCOS conference and will post my notes on the workshops for those who are interested. (I have to write them up anyway for work.)Friday I went and had a laser tooth cleaning done at my dentist in Bangkok. It's been hard for me to see much of a difference, but when I showed up at the conference the day after, my colleagues noticed. So that has been nice. Unfortunately I have four cavities which need to be filled Monday night. Monday during the day, I have my first complete physical in many years; I want to see how the old body is doing, and the visit will give me a chance to get my ankle checked since it still isn't right.
Time to get out and eat and finish up the days work. I'm planning on spending a quiet evening in the hotel tonight eating, reading, writing and watching tv.
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