Drydon thinks that the digital revolution needs to be simplified. Innovators, adopters (15% of population) need ways to jump the chasm and reach the ‘conservatives’ (70%). The remaining 15% are the laggards… ie remove the obstacles in the way of the adopters!

Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning. Jump to the link to read more.

Gordon is a firm advocate of the PYP as a curriculum model.  He is going to speak at Kristin when the school hostes an IB conference in 2010, and has worked with Claudi Wysocki when she was a principal at the school.

Keys to unlocking the learning revolution:

1. It’s personal: For everyone, everywhere, any time, in your own way.

2. It’s interactive: Easy-to-use.

3. It’s global: The Web owned by no one, but used by almost everyone

4. It’s instant: Just in time, when you need it, as you need it

5. It’s mainly free: Or nearly free

6. It’s easily shared: The new world of collaborative networks

7. It’s co-creative

(he used shutterstock  for all pics in his book)

Keynote-remote – link your touch/iphone to your pc and then control your presentations

halenz – Stuart’s delicious account, lots of useful links, like this one for Ten essential back-to-school iPhone apps 

My favourite is ‘myHomework’

iPod docking station – enables x15 itouches to synch at the same time.

iRead – microphone for itouch ($25), students reading was improved after recording and then listening to themselves on their iTouches.

Access and affordability make itouch appealing.  (Not to forget the cool factor!)

Wordbook – great dictionary and thesaurus.

Pockets of potential – details opportunity in mobile technology to promote children’s learning.

iPod touch research report – good for motivators if you are considering arguing a case

Band – Running records (NZ developed) - Decibal meter – Iblogger (other worthwhile applicatons that were mentioned)

I love my iPhone – I’ll never take a PC to another conference (unless presenting).  I used it for note-taking, internet (Facebook, research, Twitter, Blogging…) and email.  Is there anything this phone cannot do – it even led me to workshop venues.  Sold.

Margaret spoke about the desirable learning outcomes of resilience, relationships and imagination. 

The notion of ‘possible selves’ discussed. Interestingly she suggests that the self that we do not want to become is the default settings.

Dimensions of strength:

A = Agency (mindfulness);

B = Breadth (breadth);

C = Continuity (frequency);

D = Depth (or Distribution: complexity).

On the off chance that this is your cup of tea, read about it here:

http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/content/download/507/3828/file/dimensions-for-tki.doc 

A common movement is emering at uLearn 09; more and more schools are shifting to ‘the cloud’.

•a school example of  how high-speed (fiber), and moving everything to ‘the cloud’ saved money, eventhough fiber costs more was sited. The save was made on staffing and hardware.
•’ncomputing‘  peddled the virtualization of the computer. There are definite cost advantage to this, for example a $1700 pc could be used by x7 students symultaniously for little additional cost. Core 2 duo pcs are recommended.
•iPhone

By combining the techniques of filmmaking, animation production and the technology of real-time 3D game engines, Machinima makes for a very cost- and time-efficient way to produce films, with a large amount of creative control (http://www.machinima.org/machinima-faq.html).

A Dream within a Dream by Tom Jantol

Other fine examples at http://www.machinima.com/