By Paul McMahon on Nov 15, 2008 in Learning for a Flat World | 0 Comments
I am currently enjoying listening to a forum on 21st Century Learning being hosted by the very able Richard Aedy in Melbourne. It features the following:
Professor Barry McGaw
Head of the National Curriculum Board and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute
Valerie Hannon
Director of Strategy for the UK Innovation Unit
Chris Wardlaw
Former Deputy Secretary of Education in [...]
By Paul McMahon on Oct 17, 2008 in Learning for a Flat World | 1 Comment
This is another of those articles which I came across during the week and can’t for the life of me remember who sent it!
It is titled “10 years on, high-school social skills predict better earnings than test scores” and for me, it says a lot about what we need to consider as important as we [...]
By Paul McMahon on Jul 28, 2008 in Learning for a Flat World | 0 Comments
I read a recent post of Wes Fryer’s recently about the the transformative power of flash-based video cameras. It made me think about teacher uptake of technology on a much broader scale, especially with things like the Electronic Whiteboards becoming so popular in Hong Kong International Schools. (And with the underfunded local schools doing their [...]
By Paul McMahon on Jul 17, 2008 in Electronic Whiteboards | 1 Comment
I have some workshops to run on Electronic Whitboards coming up next month so I thought it about time to get some slides together that look at some of the latest research. I particularly like the research of Sandy [...]
