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...
Category: Personal
I Am Learner
I am learner. Just as no one can see the colours I see, just as no one can hear the music I hear, just as no one can feel what I feel when I hold something in m...
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...
The Dictatorship of No Alternative
‘The dictatorship of no alternative’ is a phrase used by Brazilian social and political commentator (and politician) Roberto Mangabeira Unger. He ar...
School: Something’s Gotta Give
Something’s gotta give. The Industrial-Age model of schooling, which benefited 20th-century generations by serving as a legitimate ticket to the middle cl...
Bob Mackenzie aka RF Mackenzie
I have been delving back into the words and deeds of some of those educators who first convinced me there was more to education than schooling and more to schoo...
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...
Money for Antique Rope
Here is the rub. Reading 90 per cent of academic tomes is worse than eating a cardboard sandwich: disgusting to look at and impossible to chew. Decent style and...
Social Networks Then and Now
I was named after my paternal grandfather. John Connell was just two days short of his 64th birthday on the day I was born in 1957. He was then thirteen years o...
All it takes….
All it takes is one person to stand up in the crowd and call bullshit. All it takes is one person to be brave enough to say, “I don’t understand.” All it takes ...