Teaching for Creativity and Innovation: an educational conundrum
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 ...
Category: Creativity
Reviving the Composition: for social media, multimedia, transmedia…even makerspace!
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...
Post Literacy Post-Haste
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 ...
PISA’s Passive Aggressive Assault on Education
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...
CommonLearn Explained
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...
The Guerrilla Gardener of South Central LA
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...
The Obligation to Daydream
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...
What every teacher knows instinctively…
…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...
Technologies of Imagination and Learning
Anne Balsamo, in her impressive work Designing Culture: the technological imagination at work, follows Bruno Latour‘s earlier use of the phrase Technologi...
From ‘Radical Impossibility’ to ‘I Am Learner’
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...