I’m not sure what to call it really, but I’ll give you an example straight away:
In 2007, after Concorde was taken out of service, the BBC described it as a ‘technological pioneer’ and heralded it’s passing with the following statement: “Concorde’s designers put together an aircraft that was a triumph of innovation”. Of course there [...]
Tags: Innovation · Online Learning · Reflection
I must share this … at the 21st Century Learning Conference I attended yesterday, I found myself with half an hour to spare at the beginning of the day before other delegates began to arrive. After registering, I wondered back downstairs and came across an interactive science exhibition, which instantly caught my eye. [...]
Tags: Creativity · Innovation
Here is the wordle that I used in my presentations at ULearn09 … It was compiled by Tara Fagan of CORE Education, who was doing some work for the Ministry of Education. She asked a whole host of folk to submit words that defined pedagogy for them. She then posted every response … that’s why [...]
Tags: Pedagogy
I’m having an absolutely wonderful time here at ULearn09. I’ve just come from a session led by Simon Shaw of St. Albans Meadows Primary School in Australia, who has been talking about how to develop deep thinkers through podcasting. He used two really interesting examples of students work and demonstrated how the use of technologies [...]
Tags: Conferences · Online Learning
A Powhiri is a welcoming ceremony extended by the Maori to visitors coming onto their land. There are some great explanations of what they consist of, for example on the Korero Maori website or the New Zealand travel website.
At ULearn09, I have just experienced my second Powhiri and below is a quick clip caught [...]
Tags: Reflection
Today is the 40th anniversary of the MOON LANDING as I’m sure you all know. I was interested to hear on BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme this morning, about the lack of technology for some really key elements of the trip - not least navigation. Although MIT had produced the Apollo Guidance and Navigation System [...]
Tags: Innovation
This year, Prof Michael Sandal is providing us with a series of lectures he has entitled, “A New Citizenship”. I have listed to the first two with some interest.
His first one is around Markets and Morals and in his second lecture, he discusses Morality in Politics and raises a number of key issues, some of [...]
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I was catching up with the Times Higher Education Supplement this morning and came across an article, I think by Gloria Monday on “Plagiarism: an inconvenient truth”. Sure Plagiarism is an issue, one that all of those involved with marking - be that university level or otherwise - have probably come across at some time [...]
Tags: Assessment
This weekend just gone, I was working down at Brunel University at an event organized by Prof Mariyln Leask, MirandaNet and funded by Becta. The aim of the weekend was to draft up an advisory paper on ICT Tools for Future Teachers and about 30 of us gathered from the Primary, Secondary, FE and HE [...]
Tags: Learning Technologists · Reflection
I came across this slide show a few months back and then misplaced the url, but someone was kind enough to reacquaint me with it a few days ago. It is called Shift Happens, the contents of which are based on a presentation given by Karl Fisch. It is rather long, but very interesting if [...]
