March 16, 2007

First day at end... almost

I've got some notes (J'ai bien des liens et des idées) in French (en français) and English for the wonderful crowd (vous étiez supers!) that made it through to apéritif (vin vin, 2020) with an hour of emerging (and not so emerging) technologies.

I've been so busy today that I haven't really had time to blog Congres Frans as much as I had hoped. It's been great, and the reception to the fives ideas (you can listen to ten in archive here in part one and part two) I gave in my talk seemed really positive - Holland's ready to accept that kids are different from most teachers. There was lots of enthusiasm to use the mobile phones and, I felt, a desire to get podcasting, even though I didn't have time to actually do a podcast in my 50 minutes.

The French media from TV5 and RFI were interested in an interview afterwards, too, so hopefully the word will spread further and get our (r)evolution going.

Some links just from this talk in franglais:

Img_5080 Cinq façons de rester brancher sans perdre la tête et pourquoi le blog n'en est pas une:
Introduction:

  • Quatre choses qu'il faut éviter quand on regarde les nouvelles technologies:
    Four things to avoid when looking at using new technologies:
    • "Thin-slicing" - "J'aime pas ça"; "Je suis trop vieux pour ça"
    • La peur - il faut pas la détester (don't fear change, don't hate fear. Failure is good)
    • Surpréparation - laissez la place aux hasards heureux; don't over plan, leave room for serendipity
    • "Pourquoi changer?": parce que les élèves aujourd'hui sont différents. Ils vont pas changer, à nous d'apprendre
  • L'enfant de 16 ans en 2007 est entre les premiers à entrer le marché de travail qui, en même temps, a connu seulement l'âge de l'internet. L'enfant de 6 ans qui entre à l'école primaire connait seulement l'âge où on peut tout publier en une seule clique.

Cinq éléments importants:

  1. Le grand public
  2. Créativité sans limite!
  3. Différenciez - levez la barre
  4. Buts authentiques - pourquoi faut-il faire ça?
  5. It's not about the teach, it's about the tech
    • Utilise la technologie portable des élèves - téléphones portables (calendrier pour les devoirs, enregistrer les voix pour auto-évaluation de l'orale, faire des histoires photos avec les caméras - plus d'idées ici); iPod (écouter un tas de matérial trouvé sur iTunes Podcast Directory; jouez aux jeux en VF sur les PSP, les Nintendo DS etc... Les xBox laisse jouer et parler aux gens partout dans le monde, et en français!

Apologies to my English readers, but there's some homework in there ;-) Normal service resumes shortly...

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