Good to have George back in Australia…Here’s my interpretation of his talk.
Critical change in education is the shift to networks and connections. If we know how and why connections occur then we have a better chance of delivering learning regardless of where learning occurs. Learning is the process of engaging within networks. Technology amplifies the […]
Michael Furdyk, Co-founder and Director of Technology for TakingITGlobal.org, spoke at the ACEL conference today about his own experience of growing up a Gen Y over the past 10 years.
Michael has a wealth of interesting experiences like being able to work on his internet business as part of his school prgram and this led to […]
I am at the ACEL conference in Sydney today listening to Pete Senge, Senior Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The conference theme is about re-imaginging schooling.
From Wikipedia
School education occurs at a very important time…when kids are very open and transformative. However, the current insitutionalised learning, based on the industrial model very quickly transforms students into conforming […]
Howard Rheingold spoke today about the new critical literacy required by students because the function that in the past resided with people in authority (eg the librarian) has shifted to search engines…….but the results are not always accurate and the sources are not necessarily authorative.
A fear that critical literacy might incite radicalised students rather than students […]
I have had sometime to reflect on the recent visit from the UK of Owen Lynch and his colleagues from Ireland, Jimmy Stewart and Tom McMullan. We visited some schools in NSW and Victoria. In particular we visited Belmore South Primary School on the fringe of inner city Sydney. As their website says, ‘we are […]
I have been very lucky to be travelling with a UK delegation this week that is visiting Australian schools and Departments as part of their investigation of emerging practices and issues with the use of ICTs. Owen Lynch, former CEO of Becta, with some Irish Colleagues (Tom McMullan and Jimmy Stewart - former and current […]
There are some moments at conferences that are simply inspirational. Satoshi Fukushima, spoke at the Regional Advisory Council for the Partners in Learning program for Microsoft in Tokyo, Japan today. Satoshi is blind and deaf, and he is currently a professor at the University of Tokyo (the first to do so and at 38). He […]
I asked Mark Pesce, who hosted the afternoon sessions at both the Jimmy Wales and danah boyd seminar to reflect on the Jimmy Wales seminar. Mark’s insights into the challenges and opportunities can be summarised into three areas of consideration
Control vs Chaos (Didn’t Maxwell Smart have a take on this!!)
Although Wikipedia may seemingly have a […]
danah speaks of a concept of networked publics. Online spaces that communities gather to communicate and collaborate. These communities come together because they are passionate about their specific areas of interest. In these communities, the participants know the norms for behaviour.
In the early days, public spaces, such as moderated usenets and listserves, where you could […]
danah boyd spoke at the education.au seminar today about the rise of social networks. danah spoke of the profiles that students develop and make public on their myspace site. She says this is equivalent to your contact list on the phone, that we often don’t make public. Kids today do, and this is important to […]
