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Category Archives: leadership


Digital Education Revolution (DER) - finale!!

Alan Hird, Director, Professional Learning Team at the Department of Education, Employment, and workplace relations (DEEWR) spoke about the relationships that have been developed to govern the DER. He spoke particularly about the Australian ICT in Education Committee (AICTEC) which is taking responsibility for determining the priorities for the spend of the DER. AICTEC is establishing […]

Digital Education Revolution - Day 4 - Melbourne

In my presentation I show a video of people building  a plane while they are flying the plane. Its a nice metaphor for what we have been doing for sometime. We seem to be making it up as we go along.  That seems appropriate given the fast pace at which the technology and the world is […]

Grown up a Gen Y

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 […]

Learning is what the learner wants to learn!!

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 […]