At a recent presentation on 21st Century Learning spaces a discussion ensued about some great work being done in the Paramatta diocese. What was interesting about the discussion was that the Principal’s insistence that this wasn’t about technology driving but learning driving change. This included the need for leadership in the school to be guiding […]
The latest version of the K-12 Horizon report was released today. As a member of the Horizon Advisory Board I am thrilled to be associated with such an excellent piece of research and the collaborative process that unearths such information and then focusses our attention on the key technologies. The report identifies emerging technologies based […]
This is an interesting video (thanks to Kerry Johnson) that links a World of Warcraft game to educational outcomes. It’s a practical example of how a teacher uses technology to transform teaching and learning and improve educational outcomes through engagement and self-directed learning of the students.
James Gee has for sometime been for sometime an advocate […]
At the recent CoSN conference, the launch of the white paper ‘The Digital World of Young Children : Impact on Emergent Literacy’ was released by the Pearson Foundation. This paper by Jay Blanchard and Terry Moore, describes how literacy skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing are sculpted by digital media. The paper is […]
Last week I saw Charles Leadbeater talk about ‘Learning from the Extremes’ a new research report that he co-wrote with Annika Wong. Charles started with ‘education is like religion’ because it provides a shared sense of hope and better future. And yet he says, education systems established more than a century ago still under perform because […]
January 7, 2010 – 10:50 am
Welcome back and happy new year. One of my resolutions this year is to be a regular writer, so here’s the first. There have been two statistics that I think that highlight the value of informal learning as part of the whole learning journey and hence how the digital divide must address both formal and […]
December 15, 2009 – 7:17 am
Thanks to Judy O’Connell - yet again for her links to a great read. This link to What Matters Now by Seth Godin set me thinking about the new year. There are some wonderful and thoughtful quotes I picked out from the 43 plus contributions to this e-book. Here are some of them. Enjoy.
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November 23, 2009 – 11:00 am
I am being followed at the VITTA School Leaders and ICT Managers conference by Derek Wenmouth who is well known and knowledgeable in learning and ICTs. In my presentation I talked about leaders needing to have courage to innovate. That the curriculum and assessment needs to measure what we value in learning….and Derek spoke of the […]
November 8, 2009 – 2:11 pm
This is an interesting and important perspective from Europe on their policies to encourage a Digital Europe by their Media Chief, Vivienne Reding. I also noted on the same page another link that makes a strong and important statement on Internet Piracy. Whilst we have had some good reports (eg the Cutler Review) on Innovation […]
October 19, 2009 – 1:45 pm
Last week we held our GLOBE meeting in Tokyo, thanks to Prof Yamada of the Open University, Japan. Whilst GLOBE is an international…yes its getting close to truly international with members from nearly every continent (eg MERLOT, OER Commons, CoSL (US), LORNET (Canada), ARIADNE, EUN (Europe), DEI (Taiwan), TCU (Thailand), KERIS(South Korea), NIME(Japan), edna(Australia), LACLO (South […]
