Thanks to Mike Sharples, University of Nottingham who pointed me to this wonderful report, ‘Their Space’ by Hannah Green and Celia Hannon from DEMOS. It is a piece of research conducted over the last 9 months of 2006 in which children and parents of children were interviewed about their use of technology.
The research pointed to a number of […]
I am attending the annual Kaleidoscope review in Granada, Spain, as a reviewer.
This year there are some very interesting activities that have been reported. The Mobile Learning initiative took my attention because it asked the question, when we talk about mobile learning, what does ‘mobile’ refer to? The technology or the learner?? In the report […]
Well its been a long time between drinks!! But given that we have announced Jimmy Wales pending trip to Australia (‘Challenging how knowledge is created’ - seminar) I thought I’d take the opportunity to give you more information about the seminar.
The seminar is not really about Wikipedia but the enormous impact that something like wikipedia […]
You might not find this that exciting but it was a revelation for me!! At Christmas I was fortunate to have been given a video IPod. I immediately began to add my CDs, photos and videos into iTunes. I happily created my play lists for the music, created different travel journey’s with the photos and […]
In this day and age of read/write web, there are a number of new web 2.0 tools that have the potential to transform learning. The rate and pace of change raises some interesting questions about which ‘horse’ do you select and will they be around for a long time.
For a reason, I can’t mention in […]
We have been off the air for a few days. We apologise for any withdrawal symptoms, that you may have??
Found this entry in the Smartmobs blog this week. Smartmobs had pointed to the rrove blog. When does this hyperlinking become recursive?? Or do they call this viral marketing??
The blog entry is about community mapping software, […]
David Wiley spoke at the LORNet conference (Nov, 2006) in Montreal about the challenges of ‘openness’ in education. The concept of openness not only relates to content but relationships and ideas. Openess is the cornerstone of of online education…free and open access that enables learning, creativity and personalisation.
David contends that not a lot has really changed […]
Erik Duval’s keynote at the LORnet conference in Montreal this week reflected that not much had changed since he talked about ’share and reuse’ two years ago at the same conference. Perhaps some sharing, but certainly not reuse? Why? Erik says there are a number of key barriers : rights associated with use, static use […]
This is the first session of provocateurs. Their role at the Gloabl Summit is to challenge our thinking.
George Siemens says we ’suck’ at context games. We often fail to define the context in which we use technology for educational purposes. Why do we need a new learning theory? Something is fundamentally at odds with existing […]
Andew Cappie-Wood, Dir Gen, NSW Department of Education and Training, in his opening address outlined that such a massive, diverse, goegraphically dispersed system (1.3 miliion students, 140,000 teachers) faces challenges to ensure equity of access to learning. With demographics changing how do you deliver a physics class to an increasing number of students in schools […]
