Chomsky: Right and Wrong on Education
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 ...
Category: Teaching
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...
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...
What is a good teacher today? [part 2]
This is the second part of a 2-part post – read Part 1 here. What does it mean to be a teacher today? What does it mean to teach? In an age where learners...
What is a good teacher today [part 1]
This is the first part of a 2-part post – there is a link to part 2 at the end of this post. Teachers, we are told, make or break an education system. McK...
CommonLearn (from Connect Learning Today)
[This post is cross-published with Connect Learning Today] “The Web is the learning platform” is a phrase that has gained some currency over the past few years....
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...
CommonLearn: The Classroom in the Cloud
In the physical world, the classroom, traditionally, is a place where teachers teach and learners learn, where information is acquired, created, distilled, shap...
How does the world produce all the teachers it needs?
Professor Bob Moon, Professor of Education at The Open University in the UK, penned a piece in 2010 for the Commonwealth of Learning site entitled: Time for Ra...