Essential Skills Revisited

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 [...]

Sod the Technology, Show Me the Learning!

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 [...]

Stephen Heppell on Measuring Creativity

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 [...]

Forever Learning

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 [...]

21C Learning @ HK Getting the word out

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 [...]