An Expat Educator in Asia

I have spent some time therefore reflecting on what a platform in a school that really gets 21st century learning and embeds challenge/inquiry based learning into all that they do might look like, especially in the middle years. I mention the middle school years as, in my experience, it is there where more often than [...]

You have to love long-haul flights for catching up on reading. I am flying from Hong Kong to Perth, Western Australia and, en-route I have been reading a paper that I saw referred to on a list I monitor which had an interesting discussion recently about whether it was possible to predict a long future [...]

In the lead up to the conference, I have been meeting with quite a few vendors. Some of these have been learning platform vendors. These guys have the unenviable task of trying to sell their product to schools who are not really clear on what they want to use it for. Some schools for example [...]

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 just replied to a tweet from Amanda DeCardy about her school’s Parent-Teacher-Student Portal. This is something that comes hot on the heels of posts from Kim Cofino and Silvia Tolisano about the coffee mornings that they are hosting at their schools for parents to come and discuss what is going on with the collaborative [...]

Some work I have been doing in the last week has had me reflecting a lot on assessment. I have been looking at a lot of review materials and past papers and seeing how much effort traditional teaching has put into making sure that students clearly understand where the bar is set and what they [...]

I had an email from Geoff Ward and Riffa Views International in Bahrain asking about blogging platforms.
This is the advice I shared. Comments welcome.
Hi Geoff,
Most people, myself included recommend Edublogs as a starter. The main reasons for this are:

James Farmer, the founder is a great guy and does all that he can for teachers
Sue Waters [...]

This brief post will be one of many that will no doubt be written about the powerful ideas shared at the brilliant Ed Tech Summit held at the Canadian International School of Hong Kong over the weekend. I am hoping that the ideas will go on shaping the thinking of the leaders that came along [...]