“Hello World” is a simple game I often play with my 4 year old son (‘Mr 4’). We fire up Twitter, say ‘hello’ from Fremantle, Western Australia, get a globe or an atlas (old school, I know, but it is wonderfully tactile) and wait to see where people are saying hello to us from. Within …
Category Archive: 7. Leftovers
As the name suggests – uncategorised thoughts and musings
Dec 10
Human Rights
Today, 10 December, is the International Human Rights Day. I could not help but share this great clip on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. I have shown this in class many times and had some great conversations with kids around it. I hope you do too. Let’s not just imagine, let’s do! Be the …
Dec 01
Human Eddies 2009
Yep, it’s time for the annual ‘Eddies’ ritual of nominating peers for this year’s Edublog Awards (nominations close on 8 December!). This is so hard! I think of the people mentioned below not as ‘winners’ but rather as a particularly skewed list of people and connections that shape and help me think, learn and … …
Oct 08
To PhD or Not To PhD
I have shared a fair few of my crazy thoughts with all and sundry on Human. Here is one that has been bugging me for some time now and burst out this week. This morning I had a meeting with Dr Jan Herrington, Professor of Education at Murdoch University here in Perth, Western Australia. It …
Sep 02
Humble and thinking
Why do I blog? To organise my crazy mind, articulate what I may use in conversations and, if fortunate, offer an insight to (mostly) complete strangers. It is actually quite humbling to open up to the world. Here is very briefly what Seth Godin and Tom Peters think about blogging. And it rings true… PS. …
Jan 28
Sunrise 09
Before going back to school tomorrow, here are a few of my professional aims for the year. Continue to try, question, reflect on how digital technology (DT) can enhance and/or threaten the purpose of education (not schooling!) as it see it: to extend the understanding of the world beyond our immediate experiences while respecting those …
Jan 10
7 things
A couple of fellow bloggers tagged me into this meme-game of “7 Things You Don’t Know About Me’. Memetics is actually quite a fascinating, if controversial and bickering, field of human interest you may wish to be ‘infected with’. I have read Susan Blackmore’s The Meme Machine not long after it came out in 1999 …
Dec 22
Beating others or doing well?
This morning I found out that ‘Human’ came second in the “Best New Blog” category at the 2008 Edublogs Awards. The quick, competitive part of me went “oh bugger, a handful of votes and I’d have won it” but then the wiser part of me thanked again, firstly the thousands (!) of people who have …
Dec 02
Attitude and gratitude
‘Human’ on a lighter and shorter note today Over the last 24 hours, I connected a person from Ireland and a company in Pittsburgh to help each other out. This morning, I shared a pile of resources with a person in Bendigo like we were sitting a foot apart. This afternoon, my son showed his …
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