ULearn Conference

This was the third ULearn conference that I have attended. Everytime you go to these conferences you come away with inspirational ideas on what to do with your children in your class. The three days backed up my thoughts on the future educational practises and how important ICT and inquiry is with their learning and the fact that the tools with ICT are both motivational and important with children's learning. Obviously this was the view of many keynote speakers, including Anne Tolley. Conferences such as these also make you feel good as you know that as a teacher you know where you're heading and the direction education is going, so it isn't a surprise when you are asked in the future. The one thing that I've come away with from conference and would like to use in the future at our school is the use of e-portfolio's. They are the way of the future where parents can get involved more with their children's education, knowing what their children are doing at school and commenting on it as they are doing it, rather than a snapshot of work at one time as our paper portfolios are now.