Atoms to Bits, and back to Atoms
In his classic 1995 text – Being Digital – that laid so much of the groundwork for subsequent thinking on the digital revolution, Nicholas Negropont...
Category: Learning
I Am Malala
…the most recent figures published by UNESCO in their Global Monitoring Report show that 61 million children don’t receive an education. A further 2...
What do Saylor, Grovo and Scitable all have in common?
They are all sites offering free online learning! Check them out, along with a few others worth looking at… Thanks to Edudemic for the link.
The greatest edtech development in 200 years? I hope so…
….the same three-person team of a professor plus assistants that used to teach analog circuit design to 400 students at MIT now handles 10,000 online and ...
Writers Teaching Writing
Euan Semple has a knack for short posts that force me to confront some assumptions. A recent one is a case in point, entitled Mass Illiteracy: Are those who esp...
Habermas on Human Discourse
I am reading an interesting book on my iPad’s Kindle App at the moment: Contemporary Theories of Learning: Learning Theorists…in their own words. A ...
Constructivism, Connectivism & Convergence
So what distinguishes a connectivist perspective from social constructivism? The difference is fairly subtle. As far as I can see, connectivism resonates with s...
Publishing as a 21st Century Literacy
I have to admit that I had never heard of the five-paragraph essay until I read a piece by John Jones in DMLCentral: Teaching Publishing as a 21st Century Liter...
My Magazine Doesn’t Work!
I know this clip has been around for a while, but it is a lovely and intriguing little video. Technorati Tags: tablet, technology, user interface, digital liter...
Could a MOOCl Contribute to the Education of the World’s Poorest Children?
In a piece in the Independent, in 2011, Gordon Brown wrote: ….the international aid system for education is failing the world’s children. He was int...