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...
Tag: learning
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...
The Learning Society: social and economic progress through education
The printing press sowed the seeds of social and economic progress, heralding a time when ‘change itself [became] the archetypal norm of social life’...
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 ...
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 ...