An Expat Educator in Asia

Readers of this blog will know that the last few years of my life have been an immensely rewarding but often frustrating time for me as I have gone about trying to work with schools to support 21st Century Learning in a region where many schools are still so predominantly textbook and examination driven. Whilst [...]

No need for me to add anything to what Clive Dawes has said about the Scratch Day over on the Kellett School ICT Blog. I would, however, like to highlight some things Clive has highlighted about the event. The first of these being to highlight the fabulous work of LEAD in arranging and supporting this [...]

In this brief interview, Paul McMahon talks to Jane Harris of Chinese International School in Hong Kong about the World Scratch Day event coming up on May 16th and also about collaboration with other Hong Kong International Schools to spread the word about open-ended projects supported by Web2.0 technologies.
Links for this episode:
Chinese International School of [...]

There are a few reasons why Mark Prensky’s Digital Native term has not been helpful in a school context. The one I want to focus on here is the misperception that it gives some educators, including school leadership, that the students that they have in front of them know a lot about using online [...]

I have just finished listening to a podcast of Australian Radio Current Affairs program, Background Briefing where it discussed the issue of the proposed country wide internet filter the government plans to put in place via ISPs. The ABC does not keep the podcasts online for more than a few weeks so I urge you [...]

This is the title of a HKU CITE seminar by Jenn-Jong Yee, CEO of ASKnLearn Pte Ltd
Here is the intro from the overview website:

Description:
About the Seminar
Singapore’s MOE has completed 11 years of ICT Masterplan since 1997. Since 2000, the InfoComm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore has also actively supported the development of a private sector [...]

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 [...]

I just sent the following letter out to the members of the sub-committee charged with the challenging but enormously motivating role of trying to realise a dream of having a worthwhile and successful “Student Strand” to the conference this October.

Once again I acknowledge how busy you all are and trust that you are finding [...]

I feel moved to write yet another article to the HK print media again! Not that it does anything more than help me get some things off my chest! It will of course be minus the pics of a very typical HK Primary classroom. Note the high tech device in the lower pic. It is [...]

Hong Kong’s papers have carried a couple of stories about cybersafety this week partly as a response to a young school boy who put a silly post online advertising himself for sexual services. Naturally, instead of seeing it as the cry for attention it clearly was, the media picked it up and blew it out [...]