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Category Archives: higher education


Continuous partial attention

12 March, 2008 – 8:55 am

Anyone who has young children understands the concept of ‘continuous partial attention’. While cooking, writing the great Australian novel, preparing lectures, driving, marking homework or socialising, one part of a parent’s brain is still attending to the location, activities, noise (or lack of it) of their various spawns of Satan .
This concept of ‘continuous […]

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e-framework: cost effectiveness, and reducing duplication

22 February, 2008 – 11:05 am

It’s time to revisit my 2003 utopian vision for Australian education - that is, the idea of an interoperability framework and a ‘functional module bank’ for the education sector that I presented at the 2003 Adelaide educause conference. With discussion swishing around a digital education revolution it’s worth thinking about the kinds of insfrastructure we […]

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Prensky wrong? ‘Digital natives’ not as native as we thought

12 February, 2008 – 10:57 am

Since the term ‘digital natives’ was coined by Mark Prensky in 2001 I’ve put down my mobile phone fumbling and blankness when faced by ‘twittering‘ and ‘twining‘ to the fact that I’m on the cusp of Gen X and boomer generations and have had to learn my technology skills rather than having grown up with them. But […]

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