November Learning: Expanding the Boundaries of Learning

David Truss

About David Truss
Principal, Dalian Maple Leaf Foreign Nationals School, Dalian, China

Shortly after his participation in BLC09, David is off to China to be Principal of a K-9 school.

“I come from the Batman era, adding items to my utility belt while students today are the Borg from Star Trek, assimilating technology into their lives.” It isn’t about Nativism, it is about exposure and competence.

David has been using his ‘Pair-a-Dimes for Your Thoughts‘ blog as the hub of his personal learning environment for three years now, charting his use of Web 2.0 tools with his students and colleagues along the way. His blog profile describes him as, “A husband, a parent… An educator, a student… A thinker, a dreamer… An agent of change.” He obviously has a few paradigms to work from! If you prefer something more practical then see his Digital Magic series on my ‘Practic-All’ blog.

contact: http://pairadimes.davidtruss.com/contact
Skype: davidadamtruss
Twitter: Twitter.com/datruss

Main Session Workshops

Project 2-point-oh-yeah!

So you want to create a digital project… Are you teaching the same-old-stuff in a new way or are you doing new things in new ways? What’s more important, the process or the final product? What will your assessment look like? How will your students demonstrate their learning? It is the questions we ask ourselves and our students that help make our digital projects great.

The P.O.D.s are coming!

What are PODS? They are Personally Owned Devices, and they are already infiltrating our schools. For now they get tucked away in lockers and backpacks, but as the saying goes, “If there is an elephant in the room, introduce it!” Students are bringing small machines with huge potential into our schools. It is time to introduce these tools into our classrooms and also to make sure that we have the knowledge and the infrastructure to use them to their fullest potential.