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Technology is not ‘just a tool’

Posted on June 10, 2015 by John Connell

Education and technology share a number of interesting characteristics. We can agree, for instance, that education should be about affirmative transformation, a...

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Reviving the Composition: for social media, multimedia, transmedia…even makerspace!

Posted on February 17, 2015 by John Connell

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...

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Post Literacy Post-Haste

Posted on February 15, 2015 by John Connell

Anxiety sells! So says The Economist this week in an excellent piece showing just how long we have had to listen to the oft-heard announcements of the terminal ...

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Why An Education Network is Different (Part 2)

Posted on February 2, 2015 by John Connell

[This is a continuation of the previous post…] Too many who design network infrastructures for schools or campuses believe that they are creating somethin...

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Why An Education Network is Different (Part 1)

Posted on February 2, 2015 by John Connell

Too many who design network infrastructures for schools or campuses believe that they are creating something akin to a standard enterprise architecture, and tha...

Internet/Learning/Teaching/Technology

Fixing Education’s Historical Fixation

Posted on February 1, 2015 by John Connell

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...

Learning/Personal/Philosophy/Teaching/Technology

Take the TWEE out of Tweeting: teaching, learning & technology

Posted on September 27, 2014 by John Connell

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...

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The Persistent Fetish: the printed book in the digital age

Posted on September 7, 2014 by John Connell

The book, as we have known and loved it for half a millennium and more, is an object of veneration for many. I am undeniably a bibliophile, and while it is most...

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M-Learning Goes Mainstream

Posted on August 27, 2014 by John Connell

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 ...

Internet/Technology

Australia’s Lost Network: Harbour Bridge or Dugout Canoe?

Posted on April 11, 2014 by John Connell

Australia’s then Labour Government (now Labor Party since 2012!) launched its ambitious and far-reaching plans for a National Broadband Network (NBN) in 2...

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