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Information, innovation and meaning

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Photo by Steve Wheeler - Entrance to the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild Last week you would have discovered me in the cellar of a French palace - the stylish Hotel Salomon de Rothschild , not a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The classic old building was transformed into a hi-tech conference venue for European Innovation Day.

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Innovative practice

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I love to visit innovative schools to talk to children and teachers about how they use technology, and Taupaki School fits that description. They were using iPad apps to create and then capture context aware images, that connected them directly to sites displaying to their own photos. Unported License. Unported License.

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How do schools innovate?

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A recent list of 13 innovative schools is interesting because it is so diverse. Clearly innovation and creativity is not one dimensional. Some of the schools on the list are considered innovative because of the way they use their learning spaces, whilst others are vaunted because of their progressive pedagogical approaches.

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Hacking Digital Learning Strategies #Bookreview

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Photo by Steve Wheeler When Shelly Terrell speaks or writes, people take notice. She has done the hard miles as an educator and has innovated along the way, continuing to share her knowledge and her ideas freely among the global education community. Unported License. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Digitally connecting the future

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Photo by Steve Wheeler I joined the press pack in Paris last week to attend two events sponsored by electronics giant Huawei. The first was European Innovation Day, an event held at the elegant Hotel Salomon de Rothschild building that showcased innovative uses of digital technology in education, health, industry and culture.

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Old technologies don't die

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Photo by Steve Wheeler We connect with each other and with information in many ways. You can see just about everyone in the photo is using a smartphone in some way. You can see just about everyone in the photo is using a smartphone in some way. Unported License. Because he can.

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What the duck?

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Photo by Steve Wheeler (Duck by Denise Hudson ) If I didn't know any better I would believe in synchronicity. As we began to share the photos of our creations on Twitter, we began to notice that several of our colleagues who were attending ALT-C were doing exactly the same. Unported License. Let me elaborate. What the duck?