Ted-Ed and all that

There’s been a bit of bite-back recently around the ‘Ted-Ed’ concept and the usefulness, relevance or otherwise of the whole shooting match of powerful people spouting powerful ideas. Apparently, they censored a Ted Talk that was critical of the inequity at the heart of American society. That idea sure ain’t going anywhere fast. Gary Stager [...]

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The Flipped Classroom

I’ve been a bit interested in the Flipped Classroom lately; the idea of turning things on their head so that the predicatable, the ordinary and the mundane gets tackled with technology and the real learning takes place in the classroom. I became interested in this a while ago, even bought a microphone to do more [...]

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Learning without frontiers

After watching this video of Ken Robinson talking simply and passionately about the essentials of learning: a student, a teacher, I almost feel ashamed of my last post talking about gadgets and tools. This gets back to the essence: what’s important, why it matters, and why politicians should keep out of it!

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Excuses, Excuses

What Are Our Excuses, Again, For Not Putting Computers in the Hands of Our Children? So began Scott McLeod’s blog post today which was backed up by an inspiring Ted Talk video about kids learning from each other. I couldn’t agree more that, with the price of powerful computing coming down and down we’re still [...]

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21st Century Education

A new take on ‘Shift Happens’, but this time with a bit more of an educational focus. Interesting to see this kind of video coming out of a learning system!

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Strike-breakers!!

It’s so silly it’s now almost funny. This week the Australian Education Union decided (for some pretty good reasons) to boycott the forthcoming NAPLAN national tests in literacy and numeracy because of the league tables which (inevitably) emerged from the publication of data on the MySchool site last year. The response from the Minister for [...]

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C.A.T Curriculum

I didn’t think I’d find it online, but after reading Waleed Ali’s piece on the National Curriculum in the latest issue of The Monthly, (more on that piece later if I can actually figure out what he is arguing) I went looking for Julia Guillard explaining the return to basics (basics +) emphasis on our [...]

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Social media no fad!

An updated version of the ‘Shift Happens’ video; with an emphasis on the economic implications of peer review.

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Waves

A second attempt to use Animoto; this time of some images of some waves from Lorne.

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Expanding Learning Horizons (Day 3)

Day 3 opened bright and early with look at the new Toshiba technology by James Nicholas (welcome ssd drives) followed by a great session from Glen Gore a ‘futurist’ who has worked with NASA, met Bill Gates, visited every country in the world (except for four) and worked on some important technology innovations; not bad [...]

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