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The Communications Revolution: reflections from the Reith Lectures 2011

June 28th, 2011 No Comments

Every year I tune in to the Reith Lectures on Radio 4. They provoke new ideas, challenge assumptions and often connect previously disassociated notions and concepts. This year sees a break with tradition, as the lectures have been split into two parts, due to a guest pulling out at the last minute. With the overarching [...]

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Narrative Role Play and Mahatma Gandhi

May 24th, 2011 No Comments

I went to a most interesting talk last week at the Hull Medical Society – the last of the programme before the summer break. The guest speaker was Lord Parek of Kingston upon Hull. The title of the talk:
“A perceived conversation between Mahatma Gandhi and Osama bin Laden,”
had been set last year, before [...]

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Conceptual Incubation

March 8th, 2011 No Comments

A wonderful term isn’t it? I came across it when viewing this TED talk video (2009) about the Tinkering School:

In it, Gever Tulley talks about how problems are turned into puzzles and how setbacks and complexities can lead to a period of ‘conceptual incubation’.

He uses the term in the context of children building [...]

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Collaborative Consumerism, Constructivism and the Currency of New Knowledge

February 8th, 2011 1 Comment

As I walk and drive around our island, I am increasingly filled with despair at the self-centred way that people throw rubbish into our grass verges, hedges and roadsides. Sitting in a traffic jam a few years back, I got out of my car and handed a crisp packet to the front seat passenger (a [...]

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Technology and Learning Trends for Schools

December 23rd, 2010 No Comments

I have recently returned from The 2nd Berlin Forum on Technology and Learning Trends for Schools, where I presented on the EuroLink – virtual international school (ELvis) – Key Principles and Lessons Learned.

I was fortunate enough to hear Prof. Sugata Mitra speak about his views on the future of learning. To get an idea [...]

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DfE Research Day

September 29th, 2010 No Comments

Yesterday I spent the day at the Westminster Conference Centre, in London where the Department for Education (DfE) hosted an event, led by Victoria White, to talk about improving the reach and opportunities for impact of research on policy and practice. Firstly, let me applaud Victoria for running such an event at which approximately 70 [...]

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De-Innovation

September 3rd, 2010 1 Comment

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 [...]

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Creativity and Innovation in a Train Ticket

November 20th, 2009 No Comments

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. [...]

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Pedagogy

October 8th, 2009 2 Comments

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 [...]

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ULearn09

October 8th, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

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