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Books That Made Me An Educator: a Forgotten Classic

Posted on October 6, 2015 by John Connell

This is the third in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator o...

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Fiction, Non-Fiction and Facts

Posted on August 28, 2015 by John Connell

  BBC Radio Four offers a number of fine programmes about books, writing and reading. I regularly enjoy A Good Read in which the host and two guests each s...

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The Tree of Creativity

Posted on May 27, 2015 by John Connell

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 ...

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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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Books That Made Me An Educator: Illich’s Flawed Classics

Posted on February 10, 2015 by John Connell

This is the second in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator ...

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Books that made me an educator: “Letter to a Teacher: the School of Barbiana”

Posted on February 9, 2015 by John Connell

This is the first of an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator o...

Learning/Personal/Philosophy/Teaching/Technology

Take the TWEE out of Tweeting: teaching, learning & technology

Posted on September 27, 2014 by John Connell

During a recent online debate, one of those undemanding messages that so many Twitter-inhabiting educators seem to love popped up on my TweetDeck and then poppe...

Culture/Internet/People/Personal/Reading/Technology/Web/Writing

The Persistent Fetish: the printed book in the digital age

Posted on September 7, 2014 by John Connell

The book, as we have known and loved it for half a millennium and more, is an object of veneration for many. I am undeniably a bibliophile, and while it is most...

Internet/Learning/People/Personal/Teaching/Technology/Web

M-Learning Goes Mainstream

Posted on August 27, 2014 by John Connell

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 ...

Creativity/Learning/Personal/Politics

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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