Is it legal to leave PowerPoint once you're in it? :-)

Making a Wordle in real time from the BBC website. A really good example of the cognitive overview provided by Wordle. Hmmm, sound in Wordle eh? By using PhotoStory.

Acknowledge difference. (I'm thinking too much to blog this properly) Learners are different so get that in place before personalisation.

How do you like your learning?

The sensory matrix. "Listen to me and look at that!" The Bermuda Triangle from which learning does not emerge.

The Learning Event Generator.(iPhone app too. The RAG)

Subtlety and nuance. A measure of development/progress.

Ebb and flow. To live powerfully in the technological world and otherwise.

Keep learning active and provide good formative feedback. Research proves these to be key to effective learning.

Crowd source a curriculum wiki. New professional development tools.

John showed a Commoncraft video.

Twitter as a tool for learning. Allows digital philanthropy.

Time for:

• making things 
• telling stories

www.newtools.org 

Children from Dover Park Primary School show us how to wake up and shake up! I wish I could do that!

Whose learning is it anyway?

A key question is about identifying who owns the learning.

How do we enable children to perceive themselves as successful learners? As children get older this is a less frequent perception. Older children define this in subject terms.

Do children enjoy struggle? Do they struggle enough. Are we too quick to help?

What is learning? Seems to be about 'stuff' according to children

What are teachers for? Children have a range of answers like telling you off and giving you the answers but top response is they are there to help.

A teacher makes him/herself "progressively unnecessary"

We are about:

• raising achievement - but what is it? It has to do with success after effort. It's not necessarily academic.
• recognising that learners have responsibilty for learning
• children recognising what makes them successful learners

Teachers should provide challenge, choice and learning outside say children.

Ownership, understanding, motivation. The building blocks of learning.

Moving learning forward seems to revolve around discussion and communication on a range of levels.

"Any improvement requires change." That means moving out of your comfort zone.

"The best motivation is achievement!"