The Global Education Learning Community on Twitter
1. The Global Education Learning Community: Twitter as Liberation Technology Ira David Socol College of Education Michigan State University
2. Open University 2005: DEEP Impact: An Investigation of the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Teacher Education in the Global South Leach, J., Ahmed, A., Makalima, S., and Power, T.
3. SMS Messaging for teacher professional development: -lowered isolation -improved self-assessed practice -improved teacher retention -provided increased global contact for students
4. Twitter as a teacher network, both real time and asynchronous with minimal tech requirements
5. Foucault: power “only exists in action” (1996). Twitter creates a “transaction space” for the action which otherwise may not exist.
6. Creating a space in which teachers can use their own power, without the transaction space limitations of their culture and/or nation.
15. to what degree does nsw need associative advocasy accross sectors vs focus on skill/resources.
16. [1] Light bulb! What if I gave an assignment in class and each student was the expert on one problem and they couldn't ask me for help. They HAD [2] to ask the student in charge of that problem. I know this is a very common teaching strategy but I normally hate it and this way excites me.
17. Students in tears over HSC 'nightmare' http://bit.ly/4tRIXt [Gotta love standardised testing
18. special needs eighth graders all very far behind-no progress last two years- any ideas?
19. Can I write "Dear parent, your son has greatly improved on things not considered important by the school report system"?