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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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Education and the Great Big Disruption Machine

Posted on July 19, 2015 by John Connell

The Internet is all things to all people. Well, almost. It hasn’t quite got there yet in Education, for instance. But it will. It must. I want to look ...

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Teaching Dissent

Posted on July 11, 2015 by John Connell

thanks to Jennifer Murawski for the photo When you look at the long history of man, you see that more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedienc...

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The Internet of Education Things (part 2)

Posted on June 10, 2015 by John Connell

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...

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The Internet of Education Things (part 1)

Posted on June 10, 2015 by John Connell

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...

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Technology is not ‘just a tool’

Posted on June 10, 2015 by John Connell

Education and technology share a number of interesting characteristics. We can agree, for instance, that education should be about affirmative transformation, a...

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Deschooling YOU: The School & the Sovereignty of Knowledge

Posted on May 27, 2015 by John Connell

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...

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The Learning Society: social and economic progress through education

Posted on November 4, 2014 by John Connell

The printing press sowed the seeds of social and economic progress, heralding a time when ‘change itself [became] the archetypal norm of social life’...

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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...

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Chomsky: Right and Wrong on Education

Posted on August 14, 2014 by John Connell

In the video, Chomsky speaks on three critical questions: on the purpose of education, on the role and place of technology in education, and on the conflicting ...

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