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Oct 11
The Guardian Tech Podcast
There is a fair chance you are not yet subscribed to The Guardians Tech Weekly podcast so here I am recommending it. Last week Aleks Krotoski chaired a discussion on the teaching of computing and coding with David Willetts MP, Prof Jeff Magee of Imperial College, Dan Crow of Songkick and Emma Mulqueeny of Rewired State and if you are in education, its definitely worth your time.
As always have a read through the comments. TechboyUK put together a great first draft for a IT education.
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Jun 11
Am I Too Sensitive?
Ewan McIntosh posted his reflections on a Rupert Murdoch speech given to delivered to senior government officials from around the world this May. An aggressive ‘pitch’ in which Murdoch states that…..
Everywhere we turn, digital advances are making workers more productive – creating jobs that did not exist only a few years ago, and liberating us from the old tyrannies of time and distance.
This is true in every area except one: Education.
Think about that. In every other part of life, someone who woke up after a fifty-year nap would not recognize the world around him.
Download Murdoch on Education – The Last Frontier, May 2011
Education continues to fail, lagging behind every other area of human endeavour on the planet, lagging like typically school unloved PC running Kodu.
What frustrates me most is that ‘education’ continues to be used willfully to encompass all education, all teaching, all schools. Get a little closer to the action and you will see / read about some of the most amazing learning experiences, much with and without the aid of technology yet almost always with the aid of passionate teachers and students. Am I too sensitive?
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Mar 11
Folded–Folding Story
So, the post on Folding Story was missing its conclusion but only because we were unable to reach the required ten contributions to complete the story. Over the weekend, our Folding Story was completed by ‘extras,’ and its status went from folding to folded.
First point to note, Folding Story gives you two ways to view the finished or folded story, ‘Line by Line’ and ‘As a Paragraph.’ Below the folded story you can see who started / finished the story with the customary quick access Twitter and Facebook buttons, and below that, a blog style comment box. More ideas for the comment box later.
What I really like about the line by line feature is that you can LIKE or SCORE individual posts, hereby increasing the SCORE of particular stories but also of contributors. The best premise, the more stories you start and contribute to, the faster your stock (or score) will rise. Add this social scoring element to the follow / following element and you have a compelling reason to write.
Let’s refer back to the comment box and potential educational uses / ideas. You could use the comment box to leave a comment, grade or assess stories. Highlight errors, provide alternative posts or signpost continuation stories.
What is mildly educational, is that our story was completed by English writers from a different culture. There’s a lesson in there somewhere about global learning.
Reflection
To help a storyfold, fold, in the introduction lesson maybe focus on just 2 / 3 stories to ensure one completed fairly quickly. That said, I am sure it will surprise a few students in our class that ‘extras’ completed our first attempt!
@asober and I were briefly exploring how Folding Story could be used to writer chemical processes, or processes of any kind for that matter. It is possible, but I think I prefer the creative fun stuff.
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Feb 11
Who is Responsible for our Education?
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something that is provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves. It is time, in other words, that we change our attitude toward learning and the educational system in general. Stephen Downes
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