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Education, Google and Me

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It's been a few months now, my Chromebook still goes with me to every single meeting at work. From keeping notes on & offline using Google Keep, to collaborating (Google Docs of course) on a discussion paper while sitting in the local Coffice with a colleague  +Aaron Burrell . My use of Google Apps has exploded and I now use a plethora of Googles tools and extensions to optimise and make my work effective and efficient. I guess there's almost a slight smugness about it. Mainly because all the things I worried about before no longer exist and everything I do use in my Google suite is so incredibly easy, it's almost laughable. But somethings wrong, I feel rather alone with it all, yes other members of my team BOTH (yes three people in the team) use Google Apps effectively, but that's it. It frustrates me, knowing that the rest the institution I work for still work using, certainly in my eyes, archaic technologies in their everyday work. Slow machines running ...

Infuse technology the right way...

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gordon mei -  http://flic.kr/p/7dtTrd Read a nice simple blog post this morning, it encompasses one of our 'mantras' at work for the use of technology in learning. http://smartblogs.com/education/2012/11/29/infusing-technology-right-way-nicholas-provenzano/  I thought i'd bring this to the surface to reinforce the stance that even though technology now currently surrounds us in the classroom, in our pockets, on podiums and forced into our laps.. The technology falls flat on it's face if it isn't aligned to a properly constructed learning activity that infuses technology effectively.  To simply use the technology because it's there is a futile attempt to adopt e-learning. Lets scale things back and look at the learning design first and foremost. If you wish to discuss this topic in more detail, don't hesitate to contact us (Elevate @ UCS) :D