The Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation
Transforming Learning Through Universal Access to Technology
Welcome to AALF's website!
The goal of the Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation (AALF) is to ensure that all children have access to unlimited opportunities to learn anytime and anywhere and that they have the tools that make this possible. To achieve this, AALF helps schools develop visionary leadership and knowledgeable, innovative educators.
We want to hear from you!
Is your school conducting research around your 1-to-1 initiative? What type of research is it? Please share your experience with us here. We would love to hear from you!
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In the next few months we will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of 1-to-1, and will be devoting an issue to this important benchmark. If you have any stories you'd like to share about the early years of 1-to-1, please let us know.
Latest Blog Posts
Read recently published entries from AALF member's blogs. Any AALF member can have their blog listed here, all you have to do is write a new entry.
Puzzles versus Mysteries
Adrian Bertolini | February 8I have just been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s latest book “What the Dog Saw” (Allen Lane 2009) and one of the articles iwhat-the-dog-saw-and-other-adventuresn the book had me thinking [http://www.gladwell.com]. In this particular chapter of the book called “Open Secrets” Malcolm...
Researching Research
Bruce Dixon | January 18One of the first questions I've always been asked by schools considering, or just implementing 1-to-1 initiatives, is around research. "What research is there to support 1-to-1?" Currently on aalf.org we have links to more than seventy research papers around 1-to-1. Is that enough to start with?...
Technology and Expectation
Susan Einhorn | January 14Ring, buzz, ring, buzz. At holiday time, with everyone home and friends and relatives visiting, it’s easy to be driven batty by the number of personal electronic devices going off when I just want to visit with friends, have a family dinner, or enjoy some quiet time. No matter where I am,...
School Spotlight
GLOBAL CONNECTIONS FOR HALE MIDDLE SCHOOL Hale School, a large independent boys' school in Perth, Australia, has taught boys for generations. In 2003, Hale School introduced a 1-to-1 notebook programme in Years 7, 8 and 9. I lead the introduction of the 1-to-1 programme in Year 7 in the Junior School in my dual role as Year 7 teacher and Head of Junior School. I've now been appointed the inaugural Head of Middle School at Hale School, which will cater to 400 boys in a purpose built centre comprising Years 7 and 8. Click here to learn more about Hale Middle School. Walter Bender, executive director of Sugar Labs, discusses how the culture of open systems is the best way to bring about change in education. With open system software such as Sugar, the control and creation of knowledge shifts to the user, which has a massive effect on pedagogy. Currently there are no archived articles.
By Michael Valentine
Head of Hale Middle School
FEATURE STORY
Open Systems for Broader Change
January 14, 2010
