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		<title>Sydney Symposium &#8211; The Future of Teacher Education and School Leader Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From 26 July &#8211; 29 July I attended the 2010 Sydney Symposium &#8211; The Future of Teacher Education and School Leader Education at Macquarie University. This was a small working conference to which I had been invited by the organiser, and former USQ colleague, Prof. Ian Gibson. Attendees came from Australia, New Zealand and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=220</link>
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		<title>RCEE 2010 &amp; RHEd 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended the 3rd Regional Conference on Engineering Education (RCEE 2010) and Research in Higher Education (RHEd 2010) held at the Grand Margherita Hotel in Kuching, Sarawak. I was invited to deliver a plenary presentation on the challenges of implementing problem-based learning (PBL) in the university environment. I developed the presentation around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=215</link>
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		<title>Teachers decide what changes they will make …</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Jones spotted my comment on his post about the need for a third way and writes about the need for academics to feel in control of change in teaching and learning. That links with some reading I was doing yesterday in the process of preparing for my S2 course. I was digging around for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=212</link>
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		<title>Dealing with complexity &#8211; David Jones &amp; the third way for education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Jones has posted an interesting piece about how he sees an alignment between the third way popularised in politics and what might be needed in education: The need for a third way &#171; The Weblog of (a) David Jones. He lines up the conservative/republican (in US terms) block with the traditional approach based on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=210</link>
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		<title>ACEC 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From 5 April &#8211; 9 April I was in Melbourne to attend the Australian Computers in Education Conference. ACEC is held every second year under the auspices of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE) which comprises the relevant teacher professional associations in each of the Australian states and territories. ACCE is itself the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=208</link>
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		<title>SITE 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From 27 March &#8211; 4 April I travelled to San Diego, California, to attend the 21st International Conference of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE). With around 1200 delegates representing at least 56 countries, despite the global financial crisis this was still one of the best attended and the most international SITE [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=206</link>
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		<title>Network nightmare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the tale of dealing with the frustration of an intermittent WiFi connectivity issue and finding a solution. It&#8217;s almost 5 years since we moved into our present house. Because I had been experimenting with WiFi Internet sharing using my iMac as a base station in our previous house I was confident we would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=203</link>
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		<title>Digital Literacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the 29 July meeting of Academic Board there was discussion of a proposal to change the document describing qualities of a USQ graduate to include mention of digital literacy. I remember the discussion clearly because there was a proposal that digital literacy be replaced by technological literacy, against which I spoke on the basis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=197</link>
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		<title>Ignorance &#8211; curse or blessing for teachers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, not long after the release of the Queensland Education Performance Review, I was engaged in conversation with some colleagues about the recommendations in the report. As teacher educators we shared concerns about the capabilities of some graduates and, while we recognise the problems inherent in graduating teachers with deficiencies in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=187</link>
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		<title>Take a tablet for a headache?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late last Friday afternoon I received an offer that I found difficult to refuse. One of our Faculty members had been participating in a trial of tablet computers, primarily for marking electronic assessment submissions, but was struggling to find the time to fully participate in the trial and decided to opt out. Suddenly the Faculty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pama.net.au/dralb/?p=175</link>
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