An Expat Educator in Asia

It seems like everywhere I look around me at the moment schools are evaluating some aspect of 1:1 computing. There are many reasons for this including the netbook revolution, Mr Rudd’s plan to put a computer on the desk of every Year 9-12 student in Australia and many more enlightened schools realising that standards for [...]

I have just returned from this workshop advertised at the Centre for Information Technology in Education at Hong Kong University.The workshop was dedicated to taking us through the use of tools that could be used on mobile phones but were really very basic. You can see them here.
I was behaved and kept my mouth shut [...]

I have mentioned previously that sometimes an idea has its time and this seems to well and truly be the case for discussion on learning spaces. I was privilidged to be a part of the Apple Global Leadership Summit in Hong Kong last month where Stephen Heppell delivered a fabulous keynote during which he shared [...]

I took a visit to the Hong Kong Electronics Fair yesterday both to inform myself of what was going on in the consumer electronics field that might be of interest to educators and to see if there were sources for some of the things in use in International Schools that were a lot more efficient [...]

Doug Johnson of The Blue Skunk Blog fame just posted about Sir Ken Robinson’s book which he has been reading. I am very keen to try to get hold of a copy myself. Here is the link to the post and copied below is my reply.
I enjoyed this post Doug, as I have enjoyed many [...]

Readers of my blog will know I do pedagogically based training on all brands of electronic whiteboards with all “flavors” of operating systems. In spite of what the marketers and geeks will have you believe, it is about the pedagogy and the teacher’s vision of what the use of ICT for learning should look like [...]

I always feel a bit daunted an overwhelmed by an event the size of BETT. I guess it reflects a bit on my lack of a systematic approach to the event. I wear a lot of hats in the role that I currently occupy. On the one hand, I was attending BETT to hear about [...]

I always find it a great pleasure to be in a foreign country and run into friends from home. This applies to the situation at BETT where I was really keen to run into Paul White of the ESF, who I knew to be attending BETT prior to my leaving. I saw Paul most days [...]

I was very much looking forward to attending my Third BETT in a row in the UK this week. For a guy who is trying to get a consultancy off the ground, this has been a big sacrifice and I don’t think I would have gone this year, were it not for the offer of [...]

Hong Kong , and probably the greater Asian region, seems to be in the grip of laptop programs at the