My big(gest) lessons and reminders of 2011: The importance of doing what you love doing in your career. I never have or will regret joining Moodle HQ but I never have or will regret leaving Moodle HQ this year either. Thank you Martin & Moodle HQ. I love Moodle and its community but I am …
Tag Archive: educational philosophy
Dec 01
More than a game
I get to play at school. No, really. And so do our students. This time, we gave birth to an idea of converting a couple of broken plastic desktops destined for the rubbish tip into a giant Monopoly set (not a new idea). And this was not going to be just an extraordinary set in …
Oct 06
Overschooled and undereducated
Yesterday, I read and keenly tweeted a link of a(nother) excellent post by Ira Socol (@irasocol) called ‘Schools That Matter‘. It’s vintage, eloquent Ira. A few replies later, I noted a link shared by Geoff Alemand (@scratchie, thanks mate) that pointed to an absolute gem, shared below. I borrow the post title from a book …
Mar 04
Ed-tech Ferrari in first gear – why change?
This is a reply to a healthy ‘ring’ of posts by Mark Drechsler (Learning technologies – should the tail wag the dog? – an excellent string of replies growing there!), David Jones (The dissonance between the constructivist paradigm and the implementation of institutional e-learning) and Mark Smithers (e-learning at Universities: A Quality Assurance Free Zone?). I …
Mar 27
Three shakes
Image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dariuszka/374750916/ Shake one – Friday afternoon A beer with “Michael”, a friend, teacher at (one of) the most ‘exclusive’, expensive, ‘high-achieving’ girls school in Perth. I have just explained what I do at Moodle these days and touched on my deep conviction against spoonfeeding students and instead giving them real responsibilities, real problems, …
Dec 30
Sacred cows
While thinking about my teaching plan and the challenge for 2010, I sent out a tweet this afternoon: Conceiving & justifying a 2010 teaching plan… keywords: rhizome, Moodle, community, challenge, ‘sacred cows’, ‘we’. Excited. I will post details another time, but let’s just the say the “rhizome” part is informed by the original ideas of …
Dec 19
Catch-A-Teacher Day
It’s over! Our four day school Web 2.0 Expo extravaganza over the last few days of school year was largely (and I don’t use the word lightly) adjudged as ‘a success’, ‘eye opening’, ‘interesting’, ‘informative’, ‘fun’, ‘enjoyable’, ‘a bit crazy’, ‘unusual’ by a range of people around the school (eclectic and funky as our cover …
Nov 07
Rolling up the odd sleeves
‘Pray to Play’ Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dannynorton/228708030/in/photostream/) This is the second post with a particular theme in the series “Why is everyone an expert of education?“. The series is written collaboratively by Ira Socol, Dr Greg Thompson and Tomaz Lasic. In the previous post, we have looked at the seductive, yet problematic, empirical, scientific ‘breaking down’ of …
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