Week+2


 * Week 2 Responses:**

From the perspective of the education sector, I think Google is the outright winner at this stage. The majority of the default settings of search engines in schools across Australia are set to Google, kids know Google and changing this ‘inbuilt default search engine’ is going to be hard to change. I like the video below (although dated), the irony behind the concept of Google is appropriate to this discussion. media type="custom" key="12606306" Consider the current Government incentive of providing 1:1 devices for students across Australia, are they being used to maximise education? Or are they simply creating a generation of 'Google Experts'? Bing? Ask students what is 'bing'? That will be my challenge for tomorrow. I teach at an R-12 school (all girls, 1300 students) so I will randomly survy them and get back to you with the results.
 * Reading 1: The search for a rival, Bing V’s Google **

Carry out a number of searches in Google advanced search 1. "resource based learning" as a string search with "web" 2. "primary school" as a string with "web" 3. "elementary school" as a string with "web" 4. both 1. and 2. confined to the edu.au domain 5. both 2 and 3 combined in an "or" search6.. as a search in sa.edu.au
 * Task: **

// What are the domain names of the education departments in other states and territories? // .au is the domain country code for Australian websites .gov.au is the domain reserved for use of Australian government entities .edu.au was created to allow a unique space for recognised Australian education and training entities sa.edu.au //South Australia Education Department// nsw.edu.au //New South Wales Education Department// .qld.gov.au //Queensland Education Department// with a sub domain of qld.edu.au .wa.edu.au //Western Australia Education Department// .nt.gov.au //Northern Territory Education Deparment// with a sub domain of nt.edu.au .vic.gov.au //Victoria Education Department// with a sub domain of vu.edu.au

** Lecture Note 1: **

Include this in Assignment 1: What is your Educaion Department Policy for searching? What is your School Policy for searching?




 * Reading 2: ** Why untidiness is good for us?



I think this article fundamentally lies within the concept of Wikipedia and other editing information sites. The untidiness refers to the constant upgrades of information and new insights rather than the traditional clean and clear publishing of an edited and certified text. This also falls in alignment with the Australian National Curriculum in regards to the emphasis on online collaboration and the emphasis to teach students how not only be resourceful users but ethical users of ICT. Teachers are no longer the ‘delivers of information’ but the **facilitators** of knowledge acquisition, processing, evaluation and implementation of concepts, morals and ethics. This can sometimes be deemed as 'untidy' as the role of teacher has changed from 'teacher', to that of 'faciliator',for 21st century education (well it should). My thoughts anyway. HOME