After attending a conference entitled "Learning@School" in Rotorua, NZ - I have come to accept that the sites I am trying to keep the kids away from during class, are in fact the type of sites I am now going to embrace to encourage the students to enteract and learn...
Sites like bebo.com have in the past been a real problem in the classroom - kids constantly trying to enteract with their peers and not doing their class work. So now my school, and other sister schools have joined the masses and created a cluster aimed at utilising these tools to encourage the kids to contribute, and more importantly - learn.
This blog is to keep a record of the process I am about to start tomorrow morning while attending our first cluster meeting with 5 other schools. I am taking four of my colleagues with me to share the adventure!
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What an exciting journey we are about to embark on. I agree with Simon, the amount of energy we waste preventing our students from accessing "social" websites could instead be used to teach them how to use these sites appropriately - since they are here to stay! As Maori boarding schools we have a unique common culture. Despite the fact our students are with us 24/7, they are still racing ahead of us with technology. Lets bond together and move forward with these wonderful new web2 tools.
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