Technological Determinism and the Key to the Gates
Howard Gardner, speaking in a video on the DML Central site: I don’t believe for a moment in technological determinism. I believe any technology can be used ben...
Category: Society
University as Public Currency
A university is not a scientific hothouse with some frills around the edges – such as the humanities – generating off-the-peg ideas for business to patent and c...
Education Fast Forward: from learner voice to emerging leaders
Almost everyone involved in education agrees that leadership is important. That, however, is where agreement ends and debate begins. Beyond that point, we cross...
Has the UN’s Obsession with Primary Education Backfired?
In the light of my recent post, about the I Am Malala campaign, it was interesting to come across the intelligent and thoughtful article in this month’s P...
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out
A couple of years ago, on my personal blog, I recorded some observations (since republished on this blog after I closed my old blog) on what I saw in the bar of...
Spectrum of Online Relationships
Useful diagram from David J Carr, built on an earlier Spectrum of Online Friendship from Mike Arauz. It is interesting though to contrast and compare the implic...
Could a MOOCl Contribute to the Education of the World’s Poorest Children?
In a piece in the Independent, in 2011, Gordon Brown wrote: ….the international aid system for education is failing the world’s children. He was int...
The Dark Social Phenomenon
….the tradeoffs we make on social networks is not the one that we’re told we’re making. We’re not giving our personal data in exchange f...
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...