I am now back to my own blog. So many interesting and exciting things have been happening in my class. After doing some action research last year into teaching practice for 21st century learners, I have made some major modifications to my teaching and to the my programme. The focus for this year has been the integration of technology into all aspects of learning, collaborative construction of knowledge and giving the students in my class a voice. The results have been amazing. I realize more and more that the students are often limited by the teachers inadequacies. If we could feel more confident about releasing control and letting these amazing young people that we teach, run with the ball, I think that we would be surprised at what they can actually do.
A colleague and I are going to present a paper at Navcon 2K7 in Sydney later this year. Today, I gave two students in my class they day off school. Their task was to develop a blog where they could share their views on how they use Web 2.0 tools in their learning , to share examples and to say how they feel about their learning.
These two students are 11 years old. They are going to provide online support in teaching other teachers about blogs at this conference.
I was amazed at what they did.
Take a look!
http://navcon2k7livefrombbi.blogspot.com
