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This post originally appeared on the CORE Education blog (Feb 2016)] toka kāhuarau: (noun) metamorphic rock. Ko te toka kāhuarau: Ko te momo toka ka hua mai ina huri te hanga me te āhua o tētahi atu o ngā toka mā te pā mai o te wera me te pēhanga i roto i takanga o […]
Read More Transforming learningThis post reflects some of the key sessions from the Connected Education Summit, 22 April 2015, where I was presenting, and some emerging thoughts on the ideas we heard. It was a day aimed far more at the intersection of business and education than at practitioners. We heard from (largely white, middleclass male…) futurists (‘where the world […]
Read More Pipelines to the future – Connected Education | #ConnectAU15A few things swirling around the head today, largely as a result of chat on Twitter and elsewhere with folks in the UK, tapping back into some of the shifts in systems and structure over there in the last few years. There were one or two interesting tweets about how some folk saw trendy ‘rubbish’ […]
Read More Dichotomies: Round 1 | #28daysofwriting Day 6The new edition of the NMC Horizon report for K-12 for 2014 is just up – and you’re one of the first to know! I was delighted to have been part of the panel that helped develop and refine the report this year. This, in itself, was a fascinating process and you can read more […]
Read More NMC Horizon Report | 2014 K-12 Edition out now!A belated post but only because the riches of the National Digital Forum conference [#NDFNZ] have been percolating and settling. On one level, going to this event as an educator feels a bit like sneaking in on someone else’s guest list, the focus largely being the GLAM sector. But increasingly I feel the benefit of reaching […]
Read More National Digital Forum Conference: Where education and GLAM collidedThis year’s Horizon Report K-12 is out now…Check out the introductory video below: It’s always useful to look up beyond the parapet at international shifts and trends and consider what the implications might be for educators and students. And then we ask ourselves,’ so what?’ What does this mean for me, my school, my students? […]
Read More On the horizon for K-12 | 2013This is a quick share of a recent report on the ways in which technology can enhance learning that is: “socially embedded, interest-driven, and oriented toward educational, economic, or political opportunity.” The report – Connected Learning: An Agenda for Research and Design (Digital Media and Learning Research Hub) – sets out to explore ways in which technology can be […]
Read More Connected learning | Making learning inclusive and meaningfulI have heard this said, in various ways and tones, after many sessions this year. When I have discussed sharing and collaborating online around teaching inquiries, I hear comments such as the one in the title – or variants of it, such as: “I have nothing worth sharing.” “There are others who know far more […]
Read More “I have nothing to blog about…” | My responseInteresting how, once you see a reference to an idea, it pops up everywhere. And although this work from Michael Fullan came out last year, it’s slid across my radar twice this week. Fullan’s paper – Choosing the wrong drivers for whole system reform (April, 2011) – highlights that policy makers who select the wrong […]
Read More Pedagogy, not technologyThe question comes up frequently in discussions related to using technologies in education: Why do we still have the ‘e’ in ‘e-learning’? Shouldn’t it be just about the learning? And doesn’t the retention of the ‘e’ just perpetuate a short-sighted focus on the tech, not the teach? These questions, in my experience, often come from […]
Read More 2 reasons to keep the ‘e’ in e-learning
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