Learning, Teaching and ICT

In my last post, I wrote about how a few of us in this Authority planned to meet with some teachers to share ideas of how we’ve given children ‘a voice’.  The idea to hold the meeting grew from our involvement in a Pupil Participation event by LTS in Stirling Management Centre

 The evening wasn’t the success we’d hoped for as far as attendance goes – due to a variety of circumstances (the snowy weather didn’t help!)

It was, however, a great success as far as CPD goes. Although numbers totalled less than 20 (or maybe because numbers totalled less than 20?), everyone left knowing that they had been part of a valuable self-evaluation event. It was great to listen to each others’ stories as we explained how we’d built in effective strategies to ensure that pupils’ voices were heard. Cassie’s reflections can be read here :

http://misslaw.edublogs.org/2009/02/10/participation-and-learning/

Prior to the CPD event, I tuned in to Sunday night’s edtechroundup meeting because pupil voice was on the agenda. I joined the conversation just as that topic was coming to an end. I did, however manage to hear Krysia describe how a teacher was experimenting with twitter in the classroom. The pupils were using it to discuss what they were learning as the teacher spoke ….. so if one of them didn’t understand, they were able to use twitter to ask peers to clarify. I think this is what Krysia was describing – but might have picked it up wrongly

Anyway ….  when I was making up a ppt handout for staff in a local school on 21st Century learning tools, I decided to turn to twitter ‘friends’ for advice.

There was so much to focus on that I felt that I had to narrow down the options lest I bamboozled the audience

Thanks to Rich, Turrean (sorry – no link) and David for replying to my ’twitter’  plea for help!  Based on their recommendations, here’s what I came up with. And a big thanks to Tom who’s already collating ideas from teachers about the use of twitter in the classroom!!

It went down a treat – and I plan to make a ‘follow-up’ ppt soon. Why not leave a comment describing your own uses of your favourite tool?

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