Jerome Bruner on Pedagogy
Pedagogical theory is not only technical but cultural, ideological and political. If it is to have any impact, it must be self-consciously all of these. So wrot...
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Mobile Learning: the state of play (part 2)
This is the second piece of a 2-part post. Part 1 can be found here. In my M-Learning post from August 2014, I wrote that: …providers of content, courses,...
Pedagogy before Technology?
Don’t think so….
There are those who would prefer to pretend otherwise, but developments in the digital and networking technologies over recent decades, developments that are gr...
The Internet of Education Things (part 2)
This is Part 2 of a 2-part post. See Part 1 here. So, what ought the more sensible and, I would hope, somewhat more progressive, amongst us in education be look...
The Internet of Education Things (part 1)
This is the 1st part of a 2-part post. According to the Horizon Report for 2015 (Higher Education edition) the Internet of Things (IoT) has a 4-to-5-years adopt...
Deschooling YOU: The School & the Sovereignty of Knowledge
For as long as school has existed, the fundamental model of schooling has remained the same: scarcity of information and a paucity of means of access to that in...
Take the TWEE out of Tweeting: teaching, learning & technology
During a recent online debate, one of those undemanding messages that so many Twitter-inhabiting educators seem to love popped up on my TweetDeck and then poppe...
Is digital pedagogy a meaningful construct?
Does the term ‘digital pedagogy’ have any validity? It depends, of course, upon the assumptions we make about pedagogy generally and therefore on the definition...
What is a good teacher today? [part 2]
This is the second part of a 2-part post – read Part 1 here. What does it mean to be a teacher today? What does it mean to teach? In an age where learners...
What is a good teacher today [part 1]
This is the first part of a 2-part post – there is a link to part 2 at the end of this post. Teachers, we are told, make or break an education system. McK...