M-Learning Goes Mainstream
Each day, more than half a million new connections are made to the Internet. 500,000 people who were not on the Internet yesterday are today taking their first ...
Category: Internet
Australia’s Lost Network: Harbour Bridge or Dugout Canoe?
Australia’s then Labour Government (now Labor Party since 2012!) launched its ambitious and far-reaching plans for a National Broadband Network (NBN) in 2...
Schooling: “the pyramid of classified packages”
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can b...
CommonLearn (from Connect Learning Today)
[This post is cross-published with Connect Learning Today] “The Web is the learning platform” is a phrase that has gained some currency over the past few years....
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...
CommonLearn: The Classroom in the Cloud
In the physical world, the classroom, traditionally, is a place where teachers teach and learners learn, where information is acquired, created, distilled, shap...
How does the world produce all the teachers it needs?
Professor Bob Moon, Professor of Education at The Open University in the UK, penned a piece in 2010 for the Commonwealth of Learning site entitled: Time for Ra...
Animating the Cloud
Stephen Fry, with the help of an illustrator/animator has a go at explaining the Cloud.
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...
Silicon Idol: tarnished or burnished?
As long ago as 1984, Michael Shallis was worrying about the social implications of the ‘micro revolution’, as he called it at the time. He warned of the ‘silico...