the great divide.

this image, from leah, is slightly irrelevant at the moment.
but i thought her blog was awesome about giving thanks all the time. and also, sometimes i don't want to post a flickr picture of a computer.
so maybe, sometime soon, this image/text can become relevant.

Last Monday we had a great tutorial with Glynis Jones, discussing the 'Gender Divide'.
It was a really informative, theory based tutorial which actually was great and different from the usual hands-on activities that we are used to. I find it good to sometimes not look at a computer screen and just listen to someone speak.

We talked about ICT issues such as:
> the technology divide
> the international divide
> the economical divide
> the gender divide
> the teacher skill set divide
> the access and connectivity divide

In future tutorials we will be discussing topics such as:
> pedagody and inquiry-based learning
> games in education - are they educational?
> the anti-technology movement
> the standards movement (NSW Institute of Teaching)
> special needs and assistive technologies
> plagerism (All My Own Work)
> social networking

Not sure really what to comment on right now, it was a slight case of information overload, so maybe I will make some more insightful comments after next tutorial. I should get reading on some literature!