Is digital pedagogy a meaningful construct?
Does the term ‘digital pedagogy’ have any validity? It depends, of course, upon the assumptions we make about pedagogy generally and therefore on the definition...
Category: Philosophy
Schooling: “the pyramid of classified packages”
Schools are designed on the assumption that there is a secret to everything in life; that the quality of life depends on knowing that secret; that secrets can b...
Scottish Open Education Declaration
Open education can promote knowledge transfer while at the same time enhancing quality and sustainability, supporting social inclusion, and creating a culture o...
Education Fast Forward: seeking new pedagogies
Kristen Weatherby and Michael Fullan will lead the discussion on Thursday 21 November 2013 in the next Education Fast Forward debate. The question under discuss...
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 Flapping Windmill
[This was the paper that wrote in support of The Doctor Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Address which I gave to ASLA in Adelaide in 2008. It re-visited a n...
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...
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...
Re-Framing Education
Education is a universal. It is a truism to say that, in every age throughout human history, in every society, every nation, every tribe, every empire, every cu...