Comments on: Shift Our Schools Episode 14: What Were the Big Picture and Practical Classroom “take aways” from the Learning 2.008 Conference? http://www.sospodcast.org/2008/10/07/shift-our-schools-episode-14-what-were-the-big-picture-and-practical-classroom-take-aways-from-the-learning-2008-conference/ Shifting Our Schools into the Digital Age Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:21:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul McMahon http://www.sospodcast.org/2008/10/07/shift-our-schools-episode-14-what-were-the-big-picture-and-practical-classroom-take-aways-from-the-learning-2008-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Paul McMahon Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:52:12 +0000 http://www.sospodcast.org/?p=43#comment-8 Hey guys, Don't know how I managed to miss this as I usually have it in my Google calendar. Your next will definitely be posted. I have to say that I took a lot from what David Jakes said a few times at the conference about systemic change. All of you on this podcast work for schools which support the sort of change that Learning 2.008 was speaking of. In the schools that I have contact with, there are still too many "pockets of change" with the majority of staff getting on with traditional teaching in traditional classrooms and getting a lot of positive feedback from kids, parents, even administration of the school for doing so. Until we can have things like Participation in Global Collaborative projects, production and sharing of podcasts, etc written into curricula and made a part of the assessment, we are still really just fiddling about with the edges. My 2C worth. Paul Hey guys,

Don’t know how I managed to miss this as I usually have it in my Google calendar. Your next will definitely be posted.
I have to say that I took a lot from what David Jakes said a few times at the conference about systemic change. All of you on this podcast work for schools which support the sort of change that Learning 2.008 was speaking of.
In the schools that I have contact with, there are still too many “pockets of change” with the majority of staff getting on with traditional teaching in traditional classrooms and getting a lot of positive feedback from kids, parents, even administration of the school for doing so.
Until we can have things like Participation in Global Collaborative projects, production and sharing of podcasts, etc written into curricula and made a part of the assessment, we are still really just fiddling about with the edges.

My 2C worth.
Paul

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