The last day of our Study Tour was devoted to a "mini-conference". Instead of traveling around the country, we spent the day at the Mofet Institute and heard presentations from some guests, from a number of departments at Mofet, and perhaps most important, from some of the participants of the tour who came from abroad.
We opened with a greeting from Dr. Michal Golan, the head of the Mofet Institute who not only greeted us, but also asked our participants to tell a bit about themselves.
Our first presentation was by Jay Hurvitz who tried to examine some of the ways in which digital technologies are changing education, but also tried to show that there's a rich history of expecting technology to change education.
We then heard from Jenny Wing Yee and Catherine Yanyan Lin from the Hong Kong Institute of Education who reported on their experience using e-portfolios in their work as English teachers. We learned from them that it's still too early to know just how effective a tool this is, and perhaps more to the point, whether their students are learning to use it effectively.
After that, Ariellah Rosenberg described and demonstrated a few of the digital tools that can help us develop our Personal/Professional learning networks. Ariellah encouraged us to try these tools, promising us that we'd discover that they truly can serve us in our work.
And of course our Study Tour can serve as the basis for the continued development of a personal/professional network, so it's certainly worth our while trying out these tools so that we can maintain contact.
We opened with a greeting from Dr. Michal Golan, the head of the Mofet Institute who not only greeted us, but also asked our participants to tell a bit about themselves.
Our first presentation was by Jay Hurvitz who tried to examine some of the ways in which digital technologies are changing education, but also tried to show that there's a rich history of expecting technology to change education.
We then heard from Jenny Wing Yee and Catherine Yanyan Lin from the Hong Kong Institute of Education who reported on their experience using e-portfolios in their work as English teachers. We learned from them that it's still too early to know just how effective a tool this is, and perhaps more to the point, whether their students are learning to use it effectively.
After that, Ariellah Rosenberg described and demonstrated a few of the digital tools that can help us develop our Personal/Professional learning networks. Ariellah encouraged us to try these tools, promising us that we'd discover that they truly can serve us in our work.
And of course our Study Tour can serve as the basis for the continued development of a personal/professional network, so it's certainly worth our while trying out these tools so that we can maintain contact.
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