This is a special post for me… my 300th. So I thought I would take my most popular posts and list them. It seems like only yesterday that I took the first tentative steps to becoming a blogger…. now here I am at number 300!! Have they all been great?. no. Would I change them?.. [...]
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My blog is one of thousands and thousands out there in the internet ether. To me it is wonderfully important. I spend so much time and effort in writing my blogs, saving items that I know will be worthwhile for future posts and commenting on books I have read, videos I have seen and people [...]
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Imagine if Google were run along the same lines as our schools. (1) When the employees arrived every morning they would go into a room with other employees born in the same year. (2) They would have to register that they were there and then endure some period of sitting in silence or lounging around [...]
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I looked up the word “equalisation”online and got the following definitions: equalization, leveling human action, human activity, act, deed – something that people do or cause to happen balancing, reconciliation – getting two things to correspond; “the reconciliation of his checkbook and the bank statement” equating, equation – the act of regarding as equal Apart [...]
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I am so lucky.I have developed a wide range of valuable contacts through my PLN and also through Twitter and many of them now on Facebook. This morning, I looked at an entry in Facebook from one of the best sources of information that I have , namely, Jackie Gerstein. I was taken to the [...]
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I am, as followers of this blog will know, a great fan of Sir Ken Robinson. I am always looking for stories of how people are able to discover the thing that brings out a real talent or ability from within them. Yesterday evening I watched the new series of “So You Think You Can [...]
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This video is directed and edited by 13 year old Graham Cooper. It deserves a much wider audience than the paltry 800 odd that it has achieved so far on YouTube. I came across it as I looked for examples of videos about the subject of water, which is a huge major problem for all [...]
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About a year ago I read a really good post by Carl Anderson from his Techno Constructivist Blog called “Kay on Motivation, Papert on how schools discriminate against learners, and Dede on social learning” In it was a clip from the 1995 Congressional Hearing On Technology In Education, which I would very strongly urge you [...]
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The New Media Consortium have come out with their latest (2011) Horizon Report on emergent key technologies. The implications for education are obvious if you watch the video. To summarise, the key technologies are: (1) Mobile devices (here now and in use but feared by many and banned from too many schools) but immensely powerful [...]
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Every generation inherits the problems and the possibilities from the generations that succeeded them. I grew up in a divided Europe trying to pick itself up after the massive destruction of a World War that had seen many of our cities all but destroyed. Our legacy was an Iron Curtain across our continent, a seemingly [...]
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