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...
Category: Technology
Human Capacity
Education is a universal. It is a truism to say that, in every age throughout human history, in every society, every nation, every tribe, every empire, we have ...
Good and Bad eLearning
It is common, even amongst strong advocates for the use of digital technology in education, to begin any discussion of eLearning with an affirmation that the &l...
Peer Matching for Learning
Steve Wheeler, a while back, highlighted one of Ivan Illich’s ideas from Deschooling Society: peer-matching: The operation of a peer-matching network...
Our Threatened World?
We are a jaded lot, we in our world – our threatened world. We are good for irony and even cynicism. Some words and ideas we hardly use, so worn out have they b...
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...
SAIDE & OER Africa
On my travels around the world I have often found myself working with some truly inspiring organisations. One of these is SAIDE, the South African Institute for...
Atoms to Bits, and back to Atoms
In his classic 1995 text – Being Digital – that laid so much of the groundwork for subsequent thinking on the digital revolution, Nicholas Negropont...
What do Saylor, Grovo and Scitable all have in common?
They are all sites offering free online learning! Check them out, along with a few others worth looking at… Thanks to Edudemic for the link.
The greatest edtech development in 200 years? I hope so…
….the same three-person team of a professor plus assistants that used to teach analog circuit design to 400 students at MIT now handles 10,000 online and ...