Posted in change, education, future, learning, technology on Jun 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
Edupunk seems to be the word on everyones lips at the moment - well at least those that are talking about it!
See D’Arcy Norman; Lesley Madsen Brookes; Stephen Downes; Brian Lamb; Doug Noon
A conjunction coined by Jim Groom, however, as both commentators and protagonists seem to be agreeing, creating a name and a definition runs [...]
Posted in change, education, future, learning, schools, technology on May 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
Have been doing a lot of reading recently and assessment is a theme that keeps recurring. Ewan McIntosh and David Muir both blog a recent talk by Stephen Heppell where he revisits the idea of assessment equivalence. I heard him talk on this theme some time ago and I don’t think that the [...]
Posted in change, education, future, learning, technology on Apr 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
A few days ago, Christopher Sessums posted an article about a talk he had been giving on social networking. In his post he notes
At the end of my Social Networks talk, I asked participants what they would like to see in a social networking application. A young undergraduate student promptly raised his hand and [...]
Posted in education, learning, nz, schools, technology on Apr 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Had some wide ranging conversations about various aspects of education in New Zealand today. All are anecdotal and several relate to personal experiences of my family.
Before we emigrated to NZ, we read up about what opportunities there were in learning, elearning, learning technology etc. The government made a big thing about how NZ was at [...]
Posted in blogging, learning on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
It’s long been recognised that the tell me, show me, let me, division in learning effectiveness holds true. Often students are asked to do stuff that their lecturers don’t do - or at least not in ways that are visible to the students. The students are just told what to do and are [...]
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