last modified: 13/05/04; 09:41:26 by A
What
ISAW
is a live project, being grown at St. Maurice's High School, in North Lanarkshire, Scotland
Internet Studies Advanced Webportfolio
Embraces the current Scottish Qualifications Authority's top of the tree Internet Qualification: The Internet National Unit Specification D01 N12
goes beyond SQA's current provisions (dated December 1998)
by fostering and integrating interdisciplinary skills
by getting in touch with the present state of affairs
by scouting for and utilising affordable current Internet technologies and ideologies
in order to provide our pupils with an edge in interview situations with prospective employers and/or universities or colleges
in order to prepare our pupils to deal with the next best things to come
by enabling our pupils to create their own individual web portfolio, allowing them to speak for themselves
investigates standard topics to varying degrees of depth, such as
network protocols
security/privacy
web standards
web accessibility/usability
web design/information architecture
web writing
content management systems (CMSs)
explores non-standard, live issues to varying degrees of depth, such as
current awareness
critcal awareness
confidence
creativity
commits to
providing with ICT a sense-making framework for teaching and learning in open, dynamic and complex contexts of emergent order, casting seeds for continuous learning and innovation
encouraging the "knowledge workers" to engage in arts-and-crafts apprenticeship approaches and to share the knowledge of their experiences through story-telling
honing composition and web writing skills
offering an outline writing environment with configurable rendering and one button publishing option
furnishing contributions to a distributed, shared, webbased, ongoing school community knowledgebase and discussion sphere
simplifying webpublishing and self-service content management
inviting collaboration, discussion and peer review by utilising the comments and discussion features of a contents management system (CMS) as well as site syndication and aggregators
consists of
Assignments
mandatory course work
mutually agreed optional topics
Projects
personally chosen topics, reflecting an individual's spectrum of interests, skills, explorations, experiences and unique paths of learning
is published and reviewed
on a server with comments and syndication features
creates
a dynamic,evolving and interactive webportfolio
the option of a static snapshot take-away on CD
an ongoing contribution to the living communities of practice and of knowledge
How
by endeavouring
to support organic, creative and holistic learning and teaching
by sowing and weeding seedlings, digital or otherwise,
in order to grow live understanding and knowing
by encouraging the individual, complex interplay of
the "What" (subject matter)
the "How" (ways of doing)
in, through and by virtue of the "Who" (unique individual)
by enhancing and sustaining humane education by means of Internet technologies, such as
The Three R's
Radio Instant Outliner
Radio Userland
Radio Community Server
provide a medium for publication and exchange
postings
string up the pearls into an individual necklace, facilitated by the weblog structure
hone the skill of writing, and thus articulate thinking
invite peer review, via its comments and rankings
Apache
host for intranet test-bed websites
Why
Many a Mainstream Educational Habitat
seems
to cultivate mechanistic, reductionist, standardised and dehumanising technostructures
to homogenise heterogeneity, i. e. to factory-farm an industrialised, product-oriented and "quality-controlled" educational monoculture of the least or politically most expedient common denominator
Microhabitats
may
somehow, somewhere, for some time
sustain ecological niches for diversity of life and creativity, necessary for viable evolving ecosystems
Inspirational Wells
Esoterics
John Alexandra
David Bohm
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Henning Koehler
Georg Kuehlewind
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Rudolf Steiner
Steve Talbott
Wolfgang Wieland
Harald Wohlrapp
Mathematicians, Physicists, Educators
Albert Einstein
Leonhard Euler
Hans Freudenthal
George Polya
Martin Wagenschein
Alexander Israel Wittenberg
Techies
xml.apache
Marc Barrot
for making opml to html rendering a doddle
and for his patience and preparedness to help with technical inquiries
Rogers Cadenhead
the RadioUserland Community
Last, but not Least
my pupils
past, present, and maybe in the future
