Teaching for Creativity and Innovation: an educational conundrum
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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Reviving the Composition: for social media, multimedia, transmedia…even makerspace!
Way way back in the dark ages, in the pre-history of the Web – around 1991, to be more precise – I wrote a paper for what was then the Scottish Coun...
Learning and Forgetting: The Official Theory .v. the Classic View
Do you recognise any or all of this? persuading individuals that they won’t learn unless they make a determined effort, and that the fault is theirs if th...
Why An Education Network is Different (Part 2)
[This is a continuation of the previous post…] Too many who design network infrastructures for schools or campuses believe that they are creating somethin...
Why An Education Network is Different (Part 1)
Too many who design network infrastructures for schools or campuses believe that they are creating something akin to a standard enterprise architecture, and tha...
Fixing Education’s Historical Fixation
The limitless network of networks that we now inhabit, with its boundless stores of data and information, is quickly democratizing access to knowledge for every...
Take the TWEE out of Tweeting: teaching, learning & technology
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...
M-Learning Goes Mainstream
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 ...