Our Home Away From Home
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Nanjing’s Big Bridge
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Mobile Vegetables
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it’s been a while
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Time To Think session
I’m here in Shanghai at the Learning 2.008 conference. I’ve been to one session and already ditched the second – not that there wasn’t anything that I wanted to see. Probably too many things (thankfully they are all being podcast), but I’m sitting here now in the lunch tent really relishing the time to have a few minutes just to think about a few things before I launch into the next conversation – which is in about 10 minutes and is about mobile phones in learning. Something that is of great interest to me.
Anyway, this post may be a bit a bit messy, but that would indicate the state of the thoughts in my mind at the moment. The questions I am asking are:
- how can i make better connections with my students?
- how can I do that in a way that is meaningful to them? they will have betteer answers than me I’d say!
- what is the real potentioal of social networking in the classroom?
- Educational networks restricted only to classes are wasting their potential.
- Do we REALLY want to creat FLAT classrooms? What does this really mean? Do we have to say we are flattening something in order to indicate that we are creating strong connections?
- Digital Immigrants and natives don’t exist in my humble opinion, so is there really a divide? Is it an issue of exposure? of education? of learned helplessness? is it really an issue that is worth ‘naming’ at all? is is a matter of more professional development? Is it an issue that lies solely with the sufferer – for want of better phrasing there!
Right, that will do for now. It helps to have some of those things written down – none of which are particularly small questions, so I might be writing for the next few weeks to get some understanding of the answers – if there are any. Will let you know.


