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Give a
Yesterday, I stopped at traffic lights and watched an angry old man telling off a kid of about 16 trying to eke a few cents by washing windows. I’m sure you’ve seen the sight alike. Shoulders dropped,...
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And it starts in kindy
Source: Cosmic Kindergarten http://www.flickr.com/photos/hexholden/3374990171/ Yesterday, I did a couple of hours of ‘parent duty’ at my 5 year old son’s kindy (abbreviation for ‘kindergarden’),...
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Nobody asks
Last week, I was invited to a high school as an ‘expert’ on using Moodle in the classroom. I had a series of 45-minute sessions to, as my brief read, ‘inspire’ each group of teachers (average size of...
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Imagine this … The medical scenario may be laughable but, transferred to the context of many schools and classrooms today, quite … (in)conceivable? The anecdote in the presentation is an extract from a...
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The ultimate question
Pompous title? Read to the end and that may change Yesterday I watched an avalanche on Twitter, for lack of better analogy. Within minutes, a very casual pondering of a couple of good, open ended...
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Ed-tech Ferrari in first gear – why change?
This is a reply to a healthy ‘ring’ of posts by Mark Drechsler (Learning technologies – should the tail wag the dog? – an excellent string of replies growing there!), David Jones (The dissonance...
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Great Moot but …
A memorable moot ! Quick slideshow… This is what I tweeted at the end of 2011 Australian Moodle Moot 2011: To sum up #mootau11: We flew First Class! Thank you @ns_allanc [Allan Christie] and @netspot...
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Mad or what?
The heart of it all. Questions, glorious questions ! This isn’t a ‘flipped classroom’. This isn’t ‘disruptive’ pedagogy or ‘disruptive technology’. This isn’t (just) about what is often understood as...
View ArticleTechnologies of delight
Yesterday, I took our two boys (aged 6 and 3) to a place where they could be their best. Not the only such place but a great one nevertheless. The place is called Naturescape, free and right in the...
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The beast of performativity
You? There is a very good chance that over the past decade or so you have experienced one or series of reviews, performance management meetings, appraisals, inspections, key performance indicators,...
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