Paul, I have been working with K-12 teachers for over 30 years. I am always amazed by the ability of the Ministry of Education (Israel) to enforce innovations (including technology) irrespective of teachers' resistance, unions and other political groups. Educational policies and mandates seem to work. You may ask if this is a democratic way of doing things, but even the NCLB policy of 2001 was mandated in the US and is enforced in very undemocratic means. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Paul Seiler <[email protected]>wrote: > > Randy, I have found your views to be true and I ask NZ teachers about > WE, both those involved in L4C29 and those not yet trained. I do not > think we will reach a critical mass of teachers contributing/modifying > OER without a FCK (or the like), as they will always say they are too > busy learning other new things (like our new curriculum, for example > http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/). > > There will always be those willing to learn wiki syntax or who already > know it, but my experience shows that this is a very minority of NZ > teachers. > > Paul. > > On Sep 6, 1:28 am, NELLIE DEUTSCH <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Gurmit, > > You build it, and they will come. I suggest you start a page on > WikiEducator > > and I for one will definitely join. I started the mentoring project you > were > > interested in way back and would love to see your input. > > Warm wishes, > > Nellie Deutsch > > Sharing is Caring!http://www.nelliemuller.com > > Doctoral Student > > Educational Leadership > > Curriculum and Instruction > > Get ready for CO10:http://connecting-online.ning.com/ > > Free online workshops on WikiEducator: > http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops > > > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Gurmit Singh <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > As I compare and assess various approaches and frameworks for using > > > learning technologies effectively and efficiently, I wanted to ask if > > > anyone is interested in discussing how developing OER ca optimize > > > knowledge transfer at a distance. > > > > > This is a big emerging question in my field, which is organizing HIV > > > AIDS workshops, conferences and e-learning, as we try and assess which > > > will be the path to success for the next 5 years, bringing technology > > > strategically into our work. > > > > > I look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas, > > > > > Thanks > > > Gurmit > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
