A short final blog which ends the course but provides the platform to carry on. As a new school we have developed challenging, robust eLearning visions and plans that pave the way to aim for the empowering phase as expressed in the e-learning framework. (Ministry of Education) Whilst I have not been responsible for the […]
Month: October 2016
Week 31 Crossing boundaries and creating connections
I have made two maps below. The first shows a particular block of learning that I will be teaching in called Connected Learning. This will run for 500 minutes per week for year 9 learners and be a combination of five disciplines. The logic behind this model is justified by using Stember’s (1991) arguments (cited […]
Week 30 – PRACTICE – Professional Online Social Networks
10th October I was not an early adopter of social media initially in my teaching practice because often there was no clear pedagogy that supported its’ use and the digital responsibility that needs to support effective and safe use of it were not well thought out. As a senior leader I spent a lot of […]
Week 5: 2/10/2016 Ethical dilemma: Connecting the dots.
As acting Principal my PA received a complaint that a teacher was having inappropriate contact via face book with a teacher and a follow up phone conversation was asked for. The phone conversation was had and a can of worms began! During staff briefing that morning I had noticed a male staff member had arrived […]
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