Comments for Madhu at UTS

Comment on LAMS Conference – 2008 by Tania Kennedy

Tania Kennedy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:26:14 +0000

I attended these sessions too and thought they gave two excellent examples of how LAMS an be used in high schools.
The slides from the presentation can be found at: http://lams2008sydney.lamsfoundation.org/program.htm
Tania.

Comment on Sitting on the fence … by learningconversations

learningconversations — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:20:54 +0000

well done Madhu! MK.

Comment on Sitting on the fence … by Is computer latin for ‘con’ meaning ‘consume’ and ‘puter’ for ‘time’? | Mark Clancy's Bloggy Departure Lounge

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:23:30 +0000

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Comment on Sitting on the fence … by crinoidea

crinoidea — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:16:20 +0000

It used to take me ages to produce an assignment using Word, with tables and figures and pictures inside it…
I mean hour after hour of frustration with out of control formatting issues.
But now it is soooo much quicker.
It shouldn’t take nearly as long once we’ve got our systems in place and we’ve planned and taught these lessons with technology once or twice.
Pretty much like any lesson.
The trick is to be able to use pre-made electronic/digital resources where possible and modify these as needed (of course respecting the copyrights of the authors)
As months turn into years, we could incorporate technology increasingly more, as time permits.
My point is: eventually, technology will make lessons quicker to prepare for…once we ‘get over the hump’….
Not to say that I’ve not felt a good deal of frustration at the amount of time that using digital technologies consumes sometimes too!!!
I must say that there are easier programs and there are harder ones too…
I mean why can you simply paste a link or some writing (loaded with Word formatting) straight into facebook and it will appear without nonsense formatting language, automatically as a hyperlink, with all pictures viewable immediately, but with dear Edublogs (which we still applaud) this is all not so simple…
And the amount of jargon that Facebook and Friendster somehow manage to do away with but Edublogs is loaded with doesn’t help either…
OOOps… I got started again!!

Comment on Mathcasts by jamorgan

jamorgan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:46:51 +0000

I found an interesting article on Mathcasts too in the Journal “Learning and Leading with Technology” 36(1) Aug 2008 entitled “Mathcasts:Show-and-tell Math Concepts” by Fahlberg-Stojanovska, Fahlberg & King. There is a link in my blog.

Comment on Constructivism in practice by Comic Book | GRAY'S SPACE

Comic Book | GRAY'S SPACE — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:49:55 +0000

[...] Book October 28, 2008 — paulgray123 I’m reacting to Madhu’s Blog about a Comic book I created for Maths. Thanks for the profile [...]

Comment on Sitting on the fence … by Time | Lost in Thought

Time | Lost in Thought — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:24:25 +0000

[...] have just been listening to Madhu’s podcast . One of the key themes that comes out is the amount of time that it takes to organise a technology [...]

Comment on Move our schools into the future… by Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:00:57 +0000

Totally agree. Some even struggle with Google. Unfortunately many don’t see that being able to use technology or use it with their students should be part of their job so they aren’t investing the time to learn.

Comment on Move our schools into the future… by madhu

madhu — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:30:08 +0000

Sue: The issue of teacher skills is huge. There are teachers in our schools who still struggle with the basics of computer use such as word processing. I find it hard to comprehend why teachers would not learn what are essential skills in today’s environment – skills which would make their job easier.

Comment on Mobiles – the tool of the future? by madhu

madhu — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:17:41 +0000

I agree. The same concerns could also apply to computers (IM, email etc could be considered inappropriate use within the school)…