Hi Jack,

Interesting topic and a wonderful place to discuss it. Good luck with that. 

As to URLs that may be of interest to your audience, how about our 'Student-Generated Induction' using a social identity approach? It's student induction and transition made into a social and participative process of inquiry. We have developed a repertoire of different variants using classroom technologies. We've also just published a trainers guide on Amazon at http://amzn.to/1a3rxFF 

We call this practice SharedThinking ( http://sharedthinking.info ) and it has already gone into several institutions around the UK. It's induction organised as collaborative action research. We've also used it for a variety of different applications - too many to mention here. We've also used a variety of classroom technologies to achieve particular aims. 

Interestingly, we have also developed theory as well as practice for this approach. Social Identity theory (Tajfel) - from social psychology - has been appropriated for our applications of classroom technologies. So, all in all, we feel this is innovation in both theory and practice!

I hope you think it might be worthy of mention. Good luck with your keynote either way and don't forget the sun cream when you travel. ;-)

Best Wishes,

Nick

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Nicholas Bowskill,
SharedThinking

The Social Identity Practice for Learning

Web:http://sharedthinking.co.uk

Nicholas Bowskill is a Kelvin-Smith Scholar at University of Glasgow. He is lead tutor for SEDA online workshop on Introduction to Educational Change and an online tutor (Education) at University of Derby. SharedThinking is an independent consultancy.

On 21 June 2013 08:58, Jack Whitehead <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi - I'm giving a keynote tomorrow (Saturday 22 June) in Mauritius in a seminar on 'ICT in the Classrooms from an action-research perspective'.

The keynote is on:

 'Action Research and living-educational-theories for enhancing the use of ICT in schools: How do I improve what I am doing?'.  

The seminar is organised by 'Helping Our People Association (HOPE) in collaboration with Microsoft Indian Ocean and French Pacific'.

If you have any urls that you would like me to reference please send them on. 

Love Jack.

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