Category: Teaching

  • Idea Sex – yeah the title got my attention too

    Leave it to The Escapist for titles like this now eh? First from the article: No.2 … Keep the classroom, but change it and everything around it. Make the money in education slosh a different way. Have schools, colleges, communities, businesses and all other parts of the education system talk to each other a little…

  • Why not Vodcast

    Wes has a post today that talks about storytelling and dual coding, this got me thinking about a meeting yesterday that I was in where part of the discussion was about vodcasts and what use they may be. I suggested that a vodcast that had the instructor “dancing around the room” was likely of little…

  • What happens when the shine is gone? Which shine are we talking about?

    Dean posted a great little bit on the use of cellphones the other day and I have say that I agree with everything that he is saying there. I especially agree with the points regarding innovation and engagement and how the novelty of the phone will come to pass. Arguably for many, that stage has…

  • When the media is the message – warning brain dump

    Clark, Mcluhan and many others have being promoting ideas about media and message for a while now, but one thing that often gets overlooked (not by these two necessarily) the fact that there is a large cultural loading aspect involved in the delivery of messages. We see it everyday as we, in the developed world,…

  • My kernal is bigger than your kernel

    Bill MacKenty posted a couple of times a few weeks ago taking a look at what the cost/value relationship of technology in education might be. It’s always comforting to know that you are not alone in your thoughts as this was almost exactly what I was telling people yesterday at the inaugural Festival of Teaching…