A re-read of an old gem (Postman’s speech ‘Informing Ourselves to Death) and a brief conversation with @pcoutas at our local Sunday morning markets prompted me to note a few questions that just scream to be asked every time people talk about ed-tech tools and their use. What problem will use of [insert a tool] …
Tag Archive: technology
Oct 18
Fear
If you’ve been around the ed-tech universe lately, you’ve probably heard’em all: it is imperative we change education from the industrial revolution paradigm to a more creative, collaborative, connected endeavour digital technologies afford us to do it so easily – just look at us and so many kids doing this ‘Web Two Oh’ stuff and …
May 22
Panic button
Source: Panic Button http://www.flickr.com/photos/trancemist/361935363/ A story from this morning’s paper, in response to a recently publicised assault on a teacher by a student recorded on a mobile phone camera. …”State School Teachers Union president Anne Gisborne said measures were needed to ensure an urgent response when teachers were in danger. “In circumstances such as that …
Feb 17
Making Moodle boring
Since starting to work at Moodle HQ as Education Researcher, a number of people, including my family, have been curious about what is it like at Moodle HQ, what do I do in my role and so on. Well, here are the pictures, the rest are words… In short, I borrow Martin’s words from the …
Jan 24
Provoke or inject
This image, scanned from The Weekend Australian magazine ‘hit the chord’ with me today. I heard the lines written many times at my (now ex) school, I have seen kids who have fallen into this spiral and also seen the kids who stood up and resisted it well. It’s a great reminder of what really …
Jun 23
Would you follow Anne Frank?
Thanks to Twitter, YouTube and other social media around these days, we read the messages and watch the images from what seems to be increasingly dangerous streets of Iran. These are raw, unedited fragments of human reality, taken just a few seconds before we can see them. We often pass these on to others. There …
Jun 04
10 minutes ahead
Oh, the orbital language of ‘21st century skills’ and ‘leadership’. If you are an educator keen on using technology and wanting others to join you and benefit from it, don’t try to get them to move into “21st century” – just get them to move 10 minutes ahead to the point where they have just …
Jun 03
4th century skills
And that’s BC! Recently, I have replied to a few posts by fellow bloggers with what may have seemed a bit negative attitude towards the marriage of digital technology and education (I use the word digital because chalk was once called a ‘technology’, now it’s … just chalk). Here is the gist of my thoughts …
Feb 12
Twitter saves lives
The images, sounds and stories from the massive bushfires in Victoria and their horrible toll have been crossing the globe over the last week. It has truly been a tragedy and it continues to rage. There are dozens of stories of missing the loved ones, survival, reunions, hopes, uncertainty coming through the ‘conventional’ mass media. …
Sep 05
An analogue meal with kindred digital educators
A couple of days ago I attended a dinner with a world-renowned educator and presenter Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, her family, and a few fellow Perth bloggers and ed-tech enthusiasts. The company included a famous chocoholic and THE Edublogger Sue Waters, whom I met personally for the first time, Jean Anning, Jane Lowe and Paul Reid. The …
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