Welcome to Teacher Friendly Tech.
September 1, 2007The title for my Blog came from a comment made to me by a collegeue at the recent Expanding Learning Horizons conference in Lorne, VIC. Unlike previous years, this time I steered clear of the “Techo” sessions and remained with our Teachers, following them as they explored the way’s in which ICT should be integrated in today’s learning.
The biggest thing that I have taken from this conference is the need to allow learning to happen. For too long the focus has been on filtering, monitoring, and restricting access to unsavoury content. In doing so we have stopped our users from learning in their real world.
Over the coming weeks I will endeavour to unravel all that I have learned at this conference, and how we need to put it in to practice, and what this will entail on both sides of the technology fence. Please join me in discussing these things, I welcome input from both Teachers & Educators, Visionaries, and Technical guru’s as well. There’s a lot that I need to learn as well. So lets see where this take us, and where we can take our students.
Well I suppose the good point is that you get comments. But WOW, did you set up this blog after inspiration from the Expanding Learning Horizons conference in Lorne, VIC?
If so, great work. Now the pressure is on you! I have added you to the overloaded Google Reader, and look forward to posts that give me more insight into the challenges faced by IT support when people like myself are let lose in the system.
Sue
Hey there TFT!! wow I am so impressed with you & soooo glad you’re on my side. I am sitting here smiling through a few tears, marvelling at the fact that our teachers and our students have such a passionate team behind them. TFT let’s keep the fire burning and get the fireworks started!!
lgw
Its OK, I won’t invoke intellectual property rights for suggesting the title …..welcome to our world, I always knew you were a closet teacher but I am envious of the partnership you have when so many of us are fighting against the tech side….surely you will do great things together.