Learning+at+Schools+Conference++2009

**L@S** **Conference March 2009** media type="custom" key="4167379" In March of this year Whaea Kim, Whaea Jeanette, Mr More, myself and teachers from other schools in Kawerau, were lucky enough to have attended the L@S (Learning at Schools) Conference held in Rotorua. This conference featured a great deal of courses to enhance web skills (wikispaces, blogging etc), ICT professional development, inquiry learning in the 21st century, learning styles, the NZ Curriculum Framework and many more courses. Also featuring were stalls for education resources providers showing off their newest resources, ICT equipment and other goodies. Who was the Conference for? ** Teachers, Principals, facilitators and just about anyone else who were allowed to go from schools from all over NZ (and yes, there were a lot of people!).

I had a nice mixture of courses from upskilling myself on web tools, using these tools effectively to learning about 'thinking, learning and the 21st learner'.

**How will these affect our children?** **NZ is part of the digital world** and **thinking** about using all of this **technology creatively** and how to use it is becoming a reality in many classrooms today...some classes have been part of the digital age for quite some time now and the things that some of these **digital kids** can do are really quite amazing!

**Hey, don't throw away the pen (or pencil) and paper yet!** Pencil and paper are still a great part of our classroom!