Over coffee with an ex-colleague who works in IT, we chat about technology in schools. He mentions reading some of my blog posts and I’m suddenly aware that I rarely write about technology any more.
When I started this blog, I had a tag for tech, a tag for web 2.0 tools and a tag for 21st century learning.
Now it’s a given….
Scenario 1: Year 6 learners connect with classes in Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand and Singapore for their inquiry into inter-connectedness.
Read: Skype with Japan. Skype with Australia.
Tags: Skype, Blogs, Twitter, Googlemaps
Tags: Learning, geoliteracy, communication, intercultural understanding, inquiry…
Scenario 2: A Year 5 class creates videos to demonstrate and explain mathematical concepts and embed them in their class blogs.
Watch: Number Lines with Noah.
Tags: iPads, Showme app, blogs, web 2.0
Tags: Learning, creativity, authentic audience, mathematical thinking, communication…
Scenario 3: A Prep child who is away from school after an operation creates daily books about what she’s been doing and emails them to her class.
Read: My Operation by Ellie.
Tags: iPad, Bookabi, web 2.0 ,email
Tags: Learning, communication, creativity, authentic audience, literacy, purposeful writing…
Scenario 4: A couple of Year 2 students explore then enact the life cycle of a butterfly. They create and upload a video to share their learning.
Watch: Now it’s a Butterfly by Noa and Brooke.
Tags: iPad, iMovie, blogs, Youtube
Tags: Learning, inquiry, collaboration, creativity, communication, visible thinking, scientific understanding…
You get the idea…
Now, how should I tag this?
What Ed Said 
I would tag it as… Learning, communication, creativity, digital literacy, and reflection!
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I would tag it as authentic learning.
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Learning.
🙂
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Reblogged this on languagesupportuk and commented:
I am always wondering what to use as tags spend more time on that than the story sometimes.
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Great post and very true: The technology is the tool. We should be worried about the pedagogy of our teaching, and if the tool includes using technology, great. If not, great as well.
A very similar approach could be taken towards ‘digital literacy’. In today’s day and age, is this not just literacy?
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