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True Friends of Education in Macedonia

Posted on April 14, 2017 by John Connell

Every now and again, I meet some special people who remind me in the most delightful of ways why I have spent the greater part of my life involved in education....

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Books That Made Me An Educator: Seymour Papert, Mindstorms, Logo & EdTech

Posted on August 1, 2016 by John Connell

This is the fourth 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 ...

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Play, Neoteny & Convivial Learning

Posted on July 17, 2016 by John Connell

A number of years ago, I gave a talk entitled ‘The Joy of Learning’ to the Australian College of Educators in the impressive setting of Geelong Coll...

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The Guardian Takes Sugata Mitra to Task…

Posted on July 4, 2016 by John Connell

…..and gets it completely wrong! Peter Wilby, whose Guardian writings on education I usually have some respect for, seems to fall heavily into the trap of...

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Columba Leadership: inspiring South Africa’s leaders of tomorrow

Posted on July 3, 2016 by John Connell

In just a few weeks from now, in August, I have the great pleasure, and no little honour, of travelling to South Africa, a country that I have visited often, an...

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The Reflective Teacher as Reflective Learner

Posted on May 15, 2016 by John Connell

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...

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Putting the Makar in the Maker Movement

Posted on April 14, 2016 by John Connell

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...

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Education: an ever-swirling vortex of ideas

Posted on April 13, 2016 by John Connell

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...

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Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic

Posted on October 6, 2015 by John Connell

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...

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The Tree of Creativity

Posted on May 27, 2015 by John Connell

The world has already moved beyond the point where we need professional mediation to create, for example, a polished piece of video. Anyone today can choose to ...

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