Hyperbole and Bad Faith
Each new week brings with it the publication of yet another book telling us how technological developments will damage, or are already damaging, humankind. We a...
Category: Learning
Pedagogy before Technology?
Don’t think so….
There are those who would prefer to pretend otherwise, but developments in the digital and networking technologies over recent decades, developments that are gr...
The Internet of Education Things (part 2)
This is Part 2 of a 2-part post. See Part 1 here. So, what ought the more sensible and, I would hope, somewhat more progressive, amongst us in education be look...
The Internet of Education Things (part 1)
This is the 1st part of a 2-part post. According to the Horizon Report for 2015 (Higher Education edition) the Internet of Things (IoT) has a 4-to-5-years adopt...
Technology is not ‘just a tool’
Education and technology share a number of interesting characteristics. We can agree, for instance, that education should be about affirmative transformation, a...
The Tree of Creativity
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 ...
Deschooling YOU: The School & the Sovereignty of Knowledge
For as long as school has existed, the fundamental model of schooling has remained the same: scarcity of information and a paucity of means of access to that in...
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 ...
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...
Learning and Forgetting: The Official Theory .v. the Classic View
Do you recognise any or all of this? persuading individuals that they won’t learn unless they make a determined effort, and that the fault is theirs if th...