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Teaching for Creativity and Innovation: an educational conundrum

Posted on March 13, 2015 by John Connell

Probably my favourite method of relaxation is to pick up my guitar in the privacy of my own home and pick away at a few chords. I occasionally even produce the ...

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Reviving the Composition: for social media, multimedia, transmedia…even makerspace!

Posted on February 17, 2015 by John Connell

Way way back in the dark ages, in the pre-history of the Web – around 1991, to be more precise – I wrote a paper for what was then the Scottish Coun...

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Post Literacy Post-Haste

Posted on February 15, 2015 by John Connell

Anxiety sells! So says The Economist this week in an excellent piece showing just how long we have had to listen to the oft-heard announcements of the terminal ...

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PISA’s Passive Aggressive Assault on Education

Posted on June 17, 2014 by John Connell

Gary Younge wrote in a recent Guardian article about the global economy’s swift, and harsh, response to the election of President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva in B...

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CommonLearn Explained

Posted on January 9, 2014 by John Connell

I have been immersed in issues arising out of the conjunction of education and technology almost from the first year that I started teaching back in 1980. Howev...

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The Guerrilla Gardener of South Central LA

Posted on November 22, 2013 by John Connell

The funny thing about sustainability? You have to sustain it…. Those who, often with good cause, criticise TED talks for promoting a cult of preening prat...

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The Obligation to Daydream

Posted on October 20, 2013 by John Connell

Neil Gaiman, in the Guardian Review, 19 October 2013: Once in New York, I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a huge growth industry in A...

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What every teacher knows instinctively…

Posted on October 19, 2013 by John Connell

…that teaching is not just complex, it is very complex! Teaching involves many tangibles, but far more intangibles. There is just so much in the whole com...

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Technologies of Imagination and Learning

Posted on September 27, 2013 by John Connell

Anne Balsamo, in her impressive work Designing Culture: the technological imagination at work, follows Bruno Latour‘s earlier use of the phrase Technologi...

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From ‘Radical Impossibility’ to ‘I Am Learner’

Posted on September 9, 2013 by John Connell

I recently re-visited a paper by Ron Burnett, President of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, entitled Learning to Learn in a Virtual World. 
It w...

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