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April 11, 2006
FT Conference
This is a busy holiday for me - I'll post about the marking and other things that I have to do later - the first chunk taken up with conferences and meetings. Last weekend was the church weekend away, which was a good time and raised some interesting questions for me. Again, perhaps something to write about another time.
Monday to Wednesday is the Fast Track Teaching (Cohort 4) National Conference. It's mainly made up of a lot of seminars, but for now I'm on free time and writing about some thing's I've heard so far.
A few quotes from what the keynote speaker (Alastair Smith) said last night - including that it is good for you to record your thoughts.
"There never was a golden age of learning"
"There are three types of people in any organisation: Bedazzled, Bemused, Begrudging"
"Don't let a pupil come to you with a problem unless they have already got two possible solutions. Be a Trojan Mouse, a small thing that makes a big difference."
"Focus on benefits of what you're teaching"
"Are my lessons worth behaving for?"
Monday morning has given me a few more thing to consider: a seminar on using new, especially mobile, technology in the classroom; another on "Developing yourself as a leader".
Russell Prue spoke a lot about using mobile devices, especially mobile phones and Windows Mobile devices to allow pupils to interact with the types of technology they are used to in their learning. He used a lot of video, some of which he gave links to. I think the PDF of the presentation has links to the sites, but a couple that particularly interested me were bbc jam and the British Pathe Archive. He also used a sms-email service to recieve questions during the talk to allow even the shyest of pupils to interact with the teacher. Use of other technologies like ipod and PSP were talked about and how to use the PSP as a portable web browser were mentioned. I've already thought about the use of videos for out of hours learning, so this may be an avenue to go down.
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