This animate from the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award.
Entries Tagged as 'Education'
Changing education paradigms
October 20th, 2010 · Comments Off · Issues, Learning & teaching, Opinion
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The death of education and the dawn of learning
January 22nd, 2010 · Comments Off · Debates, Learning & teaching, Opinion, Trends
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What IS it that TELT supports?
September 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · Debates, Learning & teaching, Opinion
There’s strong agreement that any work and development around the use of educational technologies should focus on how a particular tool or application can address a particular learning and teaching need or issue, and/or how L&T can be enriched, extended, refocused through its use. But what there’s little conversation around, or perhaps even agreement on, [...]
In conversation: wikispaces pilot
August 26th, 2009 · Comments Off · Learning & teaching, TELT news, Tools & applications
[CC FlickR image: cogdogblog] Along with blogs, social bookmarking and social networking, wikis are widely viewed as an integral component of any suite of educational technologies available for use by staff and students. They are particularly useful for collaborative content development. During 2009 we’re piloting the (premium private label) Wikispaces wiki platform here at UNSW. [...]
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What does 21st century learning look like?
August 18th, 2009 · Comments Off · events
Education.au has a Sydney based one day seminar coming up on Friday 11 September 2009, showcasing leading edge technology in education. Background info: ‘A new environment of schooling has emerged over the last decade of the 20th century which is accelerating in the 21st century, stimulated by a new economy, new technologies and new understanding [...]
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Recording from CCK08 Presentation for UNFED
August 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · Syndicated Post
Yesterday afternoon I gave a short presentation on CCK08 to the UNSW Network of Faculty Educational Developers, focusing primarily on an overview of CCK’s distributed nature, the technical environments used during the 12-week course and the underpinning logic behind the distributed framework. Seeing as I had access to an iPod and microphone attachment I decided to record the first half of the presentation and share it here.
The talk was divided into two parts – roughly 20 minutes of which featured my presentation, and a following 10 minutes of open discussion. …
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Symposium for the Future
July 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · events, Research
It has been interesting to be involved once more in the Horizon.au Project. The final 2009 report, currently in production, will focus on emerging technology and its applications for education in Australia and New Zealand. You can read about the project process and findings on the project wiki. The final rankings for this year are: [...]
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It’s MY POV
June 17th, 2009 · Comments Off · events, Learning & teaching, Opinion, Resources, Tools & applications
[image: g33k0] I’m on a panel at the inaugural AUPOV conference down at Wollongong this Friday and we’ve been using a wiki to gather some ideas and thoughts. The conference focuses on the potential uses, options and issues around the use of point of view (POV) cameras in education. It’s a new focus and quite [...]
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Living and Learning with Social Media: Danah Boyd
May 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · Learning & teaching, Networked learning, Opinion
I’ve yet to hear Danah Boyd speak in person but I enjoy her papers and posts. Danah describes herself as ‘Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society’. She recently completed her PhD at the School of Information (iSchool) at the University of California [...]
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HE in a Web 2.0 World: report
May 13th, 2009 · Comments Off · Learning & teaching, Research
The Higher Education Academy and JISC have released the HE in a Web 2.0 World report, which looks at the projected future trends in the use of technology in higher education. ‘Findings from the report show that students typically spend four hours a day online, a figure that looks set to rise as teenagers make [...]
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