Innes's+Stuff

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[|The Effective Web 2.0 classroom]

Our fairy tale wiki

A[| Futurelab view of inquiry] - we are not alone!

[|A rubric for 21st century schools plus strategic planning] Questions, comments, feedback email Innes

Fragments of Innes's digital wanderings may be found here. **Thinking is not an optional extra.**

Ted McCain’s six practices for teaching for independent and higher learning (Boyes, K ‘Developing Independent 21st Century Learners’, Education today 3, 2007):


 * resist the temptation to ‘tell’
 * stop teaching decontextualiased content
 * stop giving students the final product of our thinking
 * make a shift in our thinking - problems first, teaching second
 * progressively withdraw from helping students
 * re-evaluate evaluation.

Collaborative exercises for Term 3 or 4 Fairy tales Wacky words http://2010olympics.wikispaces.com/ (Commonwealth Games) This could be fun.

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Comic Life - anyone interested in purchasing this application can download and email this

Don't settle for something that you don't really want. Playing it 'safe' is not a good enough reason to wake up every day feeling miserable.

March 22 - a [|different word tool?]

"Most of us appear to walk backward into the future a posture which maybe uncomfortable but which allows us to keep on looking at familiar things for as long as we can" Charles Handy

Traditional tales

Using traditional tales - a great collection from School Library Hamilton

Wow try this site - [|International Children's Digital Library]

[|LRRH was never like this] - I just wanted somewhere to leave this. Extending fairy tales.

Can anyone make a movie that meets the challenge??

I was working with a group of kids doing some destructive animation the other day and [|then found this] and thought - "that is cool, I wonder what a teacher might do with it?"

[|A hint of cloud!] Look at what Rob Clarke at Burnham is doing with it.

- some points to think about

Take care they walk among us!!

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