I feel quite honored to be asked to be a part of a group from Hong Kong invited to give input as an overseas Aussie to the Australia 2020 Summit. This was something that the new primeminister, Kevin Rudd put in place a few days after taking office and, something that I see as being [...]
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I don’t even know how I came across an invitation to Barcamp 2008 at Oxford House in Quarry Bay on the weekend but I guess it is a measure of grassroots social networking that I did and I enjoyed it a lot.
It was a great opportunity to come and share ideas in an open environment [...]
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There was a lot of comment on lists today about this Sydney Morning Herald Article entitled “Phone a friend in exams” It is such an indicator of how pedestrian we are in schools when a large publication newspaper picks up such an obvious 21st Century skill as being able to access external information to answer [...]
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If you sometimes follow the frustration of Jeremy’s dad on the Zits cartoon strip and you think that today’s postliterate children have increasingly short attention spans, you are going to really relate to this comic strip.
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It must have been back in around 1998 when I first met Gary Stager. That was in a small seminar room at the Fremantle yacht club. I have to say that he was not an instant hit with me due to his style of speaking but his message was on the money. Since then, Gary [...]
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This posting by an Aussie teacher reminded me so much of my approach to trying to balance the wonder and excitement of access to the internet with a need for respect for other people’s access to a shared resource and trying to provide good infrastructure for learning. I had to reproduce it for you here:
Our [...]
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This week I posted a reflection on the exit skills students should have when leaving a learning institution in the 21st Century. I think that this is great place for schools to begin discussion about the use of texts, curricula, educational technology, chalk, indeed anything for learning. My post made reference to the great initial [...]
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After my posting about the low-lifes who form anonymous online groups for the sole purpose of provoking strangers online and scoring “lulz” this week, I thought that I should balance the posts with an article about the potential power of the web to promote peace in our often troubled world. The thing I really like [...]
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I read a post this morning on Doug Johnson’s blog that reminded me of posts that I had made earlier in the year, such as this one, about the skills needed by students when they leave schools in the current century. The post, entitled Your list of essential skills? came up with two lists of 10 [...]
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I just finished reading a New York Times Magazine article preview posted on the Oz Teachers mailing list.
It was quite disturbing in its account of the depths that some people can sink to and how the anonymity of the internet can allow them to do some unthinkable things. It makes for a shocking read but, [...]
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