The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner
The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true wor...
Author: John Connell
Putting the Makar in the Maker Movement
The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...
Education: an ever-swirling vortex of ideas
Education is a debate! It is (as I wrote here in 2013): …an intense and constant battleground of crossed swords, conflict and contention… And long m...
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,...
Mobile Learning: the state of play (part 1)
This is the first piece of a 2-part post. Just 18 months or so ago I pondered here on my blog whether M-Learning was about to go mainstream. I wrote: The combin...
Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic
This is the third in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator o...
Shifting the Old Order of Things in Education
Despite the seeming diversity of social, cultural and political influences on educational policies and practices across the globe, the received wisdom around wh...
Education and the Great Big Disruption Machine
The Internet is all things to all people. Well, almost. It hasn’t quite got there yet in Education, for instance. But it will. It must. I want to look ...