Pedagogy+&+Web+2.0

Transforming Practice
It's not easy to get past the hype surrounding new educational technologies. After the excitement dies down many teachers simply go back to the same old comfortable routines and tools.

Check out this posting from a presentation at the [|K-12 Online Conference] underway.

[|Putting the Pedagogy into the Tools]

Anne Davis McDonough, Georgia, USA Blog: [|http://anne.teachesme.com]

Anne Davis is an educator with over 20 years experience as an elementary classroom teacher, an instructional lead teacher, a reading specialist, and an instructional technology specialist. She currently works at Georgia State University in the Instructional Technology Center in the College of Education as an Information Systems Training Specialist.
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**New Approaches**
New tools are appearing all of the time and can be used in a whole variety of different ways. Similarly, there are many different approaches that provide opportunities to think about problems differently and provide new ways to work. Innovative teachers are developing new practices and trying new approaches to learning and teaching.

One clear obstacle to developing new practices is having the time to search for, test and think about new tools and approaches that could be used to try something in a new way.

The [|Futurelab] in the UK has developed a bank of these tools and approaches. You can explore these tools, organised into five categories, via tabs on this page:

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/projects/why_dont_you