All teachers are learners – All learners are teachers

Hi All,

What a week this has been. After some long deliberation I have decided to have a break from teaching for awhile and gain some skills in the private sector. I have secured employment working as an Interactive Whiteboard Specialist. This should be very exciting and although I am extremely sad to be saying goodbye to my school and teaching it is also exciting to have this opportunity. In addition to this news I was lucky enough to take part in a DEECD Professional Learning Day at Coburg Senior High School this week. It was a collaboration day with Marco Torres. I have been lucky enough to spend time learning with Marco before and have to say it was just as inspiring this time round. I took a large amount of notes and have condensed them into a pdf document for you to have a look at. Sorry if it is a little jumbled but it makes sense to me so if you have any questions please ask me.

Marco Torres Notes

I thought the most powerful part of the day besides the chance to network and collaborate with others was the notion that technology in the majority of schools is a pull down experience where it is used to pull down information and pull down support when really it needs to become a push up experience where students are actively contributing to the web. We are lucky because in the age of web 2.0 this is a whole lot easier.