Interface awards - Best class blog!!!!

Congratulations to Melissa Liddy from Arrowtown School who is a finalist in the Interface Magazine Awards for 2011.


Melissa's Room 12 blog is in the Best Classroom Blog category.  You can vote for the awards here   Awards 2011


Melissa Blog address is http://room12arrowtown.blogspot.com/  and entry information is here

Well done Melissa!!!!  and good luck!!

What can today's children teach us about technology?

Can the digital native generation teach us anything about technology?

An interesting read  Link here

Cell Phones - Ban or Embrace!

Some teachers (and schools) in NZ and overseas are starting to use cell phones in the classroom more and more as part of the learning programme.  An interesting article here from the US.  A good point made about some of the current phones in students pockets have more computer power that was used on the trip to the moon and back.

This article is an interesting contrast to Rangitoto College in Auckland that currently ban cell phones as they want the students to interact more (this was the current policy as of week 8 Term  3 this year - from one of the leaders at the school)

Where do you sit with cell phones in the classroom?

Link  Schools Learn to Work with Cell Phones

Five characteristics of an effective 21st-century educator

Today’s educators are constantly evaluating the skills students need to compete in the global economy. But what are the characteristics or skills needed to be an effective 21^st-century educator?


Here is a response from eSchools readers.  Do you agree?  Are they any different from what we might expect from a 21st Century learner?


Article  Five Characteristics of an Effective 21st Century Educator