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...
Category: Teaching
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...
Kakata RTTI Graduations
I am in the city of Dujiangyan, in Sichuan Province, China, attending and speaking at the 2013 International Forum on ICT in Education. One of the speakers is...
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...
Technologies of Imagination and Learning
Anne Balsamo, in her impressive work Designing Culture: the technological imagination at work, follows Bruno Latour‘s earlier use of the phrase Technologi...
Directive Pedagogy: Freire’s Blind Spot?
In an old post (sadly, along with his great blog Borderland no longer available online, it seems), Doug Noon wrote about a short piece by Paulo Friere called Th...
Silicon Idol: tarnished or burnished?
As long ago as 1984, Michael Shallis was worrying about the social implications of the ‘micro revolution’, as he called it at the time. He warned of the ‘silico...
Sal Khan’s One World Schoolhouse
The old classroom model simply doesn't fit our changing needs. It's a fundamentally passive way of learning, while the world requires more and more&nb...
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...
The Maze of Academic Requirements
From an article entitled Postsecondary Education in the Changing Learning and Living Landscapes, by Yusra Laila Visser, in Learners in a Changing Learning Lands...