“Intellagirl’s Dissertation” by Intellagirl
“Intellagirl’s Dissertation” by Intellagirl
A feature from Global Kids
This is a great little profile video – as much about the work of Global Kids as it is about Nafiza. My impression is that learners like Nafiza are the leaders of the future. These students are learning to operate at so many levels and projects like Global Kids are showcasing these students to the […]
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Some insights from my clever friends
My mate Paul Reid has had some time lately to keep track of his personal learning… This from his recent post Attending an overseas conference with Twitter – he describes some experiences that we also experienced at EDUCAUSE in Perth… The challenge now for schools is to offer student access to these such conversations, especially […]
EDUCAUSE AUSTRALASIA 09 – Day 2
Image by cogdogblog via Flickr Session 1: Symposium: Personal Learning Environments – What Works for Librarians Lots of exploration of professional PLEs – variations from minimal to those expanding beyond “healthy boundaries” http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=ddkkfncs_329f3x3g2f4&skipauth=true Symposium: ePortfolio strategies for the tertiary sector Policy level approaches to uptake… mobility, lifelong ed&training – RPL is a key concern – […]
Dean Groom on Social Media in Education
Intro to Social Media In Education View more presentations from pmhs. Dean Groom offers us a quick but insightful look at the possibilities for Social Media. Not disimilar to Howard Rheingold’s recent assertions… seems there might be some significant impetus to push the slothful education departments around the globe into some meaningful change.
Winding up a great event
Yesterday morning in Perth I presented the final workshop in the New Media Consortium Symposium on New Media and Learning. The session went quite well but I did experience one small glitch and had to reload the software.. they was a delay of a minute or two… as is often the case when you’re excited […]
To fuck or not to fuck that is the question…
Image via Wikipedia Q: I have a girl doing Schol and the piece is from Top Girls and uses the F word. It actually uses it several times and she has cut it down to just the once because she feels it needs the impact. Is this advisable or would it be seen as inappropriate? […]
Pedagogy, andragogy or a blend thereof?
This is the title of an article in the most recent Journal of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders* and it focuses on the transition years where learners are progressing from experiences of pedagogy to andragogy. Pedagogy is marked by the fact that is is generally the teacher who predetermines what will be taught, plans […]
Managing “Virtual Distance”: an educational perspective.
Image via Wikipedia The notion of virtual distance seems to be a multi-faceted one. In Bring Virtual Distance into Focus* the authors (Lojeski and Yuva) identify geographical distance as only one of the dimensions of virtual distance. The other dimensions, operational distance and affinity distance, seem to have far greater impact on the feasibility of […]