Comments on: Teaching Australia Master Class – Leading schools in the digital age http://starnott.edublogs.org/2009/04/28/teaching-australia-master-class-leading-schools-in-the-digital-age/ Looking at how to best get staff using the tools they have at their fingertips, to make learning engaging and real for the digital natives we teach. Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:54:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: murcha http://starnott.edublogs.org/2009/04/28/teaching-australia-master-class-leading-schools-in-the-digital-age/comment-page-1/#comment-82 murcha Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:49:35 +0000 http://starnott.edublogs.org/?p=68#comment-82 I am just returning a visit to your blog site. I see you are into live blogging as well. That is one tool that I feel has huge potential for education. Thank you for commenting on my wikipedia post and I hope that you dont mind if I answer the questions here on this post. I also could not believe my year 11s when they said they had not used it. When they researched it though they were fascinated. When I used the same lesson for my year 9/10s, I think 60% put their hands up and said they had. However, the exercise was a valuable one especially as they have to work on a wiki on a global project. Wiki editing is a skill that needs to be taught. And, yes, I want the students to add pages on Wikipedia about Hawkesdale, as I dont think there is anything on there yet. I am just returning a visit to your blog site. I see you are into live blogging as well. That is one tool that I feel has huge potential for education. Thank you for commenting on my wikipedia post and I hope that you dont mind if I answer the questions here on this post. I also could not believe my year 11s when they said they had not used it. When they researched it though they were fascinated.
When I used the same lesson for my year 9/10s, I think 60% put their hands up and said they had. However, the exercise was a valuable one especially as they have to work on a wiki on a global project. Wiki editing is a skill that needs to be taught. And, yes, I want the students to add pages on Wikipedia about Hawkesdale, as I dont think there is anything on there yet.

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