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 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 [...]

Yesterday I say that someone in my Twitter feed, Jenny Luca, a Head of Information Services from Melbourne that I met at last September’s Learning 2.008 conference in Shanghai, posted about Learning 21st Century style. That title was just too enticing for me to leave alone. Also, I know from having met Jenny that she [...]

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 [...]

I had a bit of a rant on a mailing list yesterday when I saw a request from an Australian School Administrator who was asking to visit a 1:1 school to see something in action for the first time. I am amazed that MLC Melbourne embarked on the journey of 1:1 learning over 25 years [...]

Unfortunately I was not able to attend the videocast of Stephen Heppell’s presentation at the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong Conference. I had spoken with Stephen initially about the conference when we met up at BETT in January. I have always been a big fan of Stephen’s ideas since meeting him initially during my [...]

It amazes me that there is so much out there to learn. Just when you think that you are just getting organised and that it is starting to make sense to you and you are living a nice, connected life, something comes along to shake you out of your complacency. I had one of those [...]

Some of the last minute political bumps seem to have been ironed out leaving me a very short time frame to get the word out about the 21st Century Learning @ Hong Kong Conference.http://21c-learning.hk
I really do believe that this will be the best opportunity so far to promote the concept of sharing ideas and resources and [...]