Claire Amos

Realising the Future of Education from Claire Amos On Saturday I was lucky enough to be invited to speak at The Festival of Education as a supposed 'mover and shaker'. Here is an overview of my presentation on 'Realising the Future of Education' which endeavored to look at why, how, what, when we need to change education and what the government could do (IMHO) to support it. Okay, so not so humble...more righteous really. Why must we change education? As Ludwig Lachman stated, "the future is unknowable, but not unimaginable" and whilst we can't see into the future, we can look to a strong body of research to try and divine our present and future learners' needs. Put simply, we need to change education, because the world is changing...and changing rapidly. In the Western world we have moved through the 'Agrarian Age' where the land and agriculture were central to existence. We then moved into the 'Industrial Age', it ...

1) Use Moodle to access class resources and activities Work with your teacher to put all of the class resources and activities on Moodle Have a smartphone? download the MyMoodle app for free If your teacher has a smartphone they can use MyMoodle to quickly upload voice and video recordings of demonstrations and/or lectures 2) Create an online exercise book with Google Docs Create a document for each class and 'share' it with your teacher so they can give feedback Talk to your teacher about how to name your document as they will have lots of documents being shared with them. Including your name, subject, option and teacher code is a good idea e.g. Jill Blogs 10 English Opt C (Am) If you are likely to write a lot for one subject you could create a separate doc for each topic and keep them all as a 'collection', you can then 'share' the collection with your teacher. Check with your teacher! 3) Create a portfolio with Google Sites For published ...

I really like this. Screenr is free, quick and simple to use online screen capture video tool. You can record up to five minutre videos, which are then instantly published to Twitter (although you can choose not to publish on Twitter) or can be published to YouTube or embedded in your own website, wiki or blog. The potential educational uses are limitless. First up, I want to develop a library of "Handy How Tos" for teachers, but I think it could be great for students as well - particularly with getting them started online. Ultimately, I want to get my students creating them for each other (and me!). One of my many plans for 2011!