Mike Wesch’s latest Youtube video, A Portal to Media Literacy, is essential viewing for all educators. He describes so clearly why we have to change and challenge the present system of educating our young people. He is clearly a passionate teacher and someone who understands the world in which his students move.
His dismantling of the [...]
Entries from July 2008
There are no natives – we’re all in the same boat
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Learning · Technology · change · changing culture · collaboration · participation · social · social network · teaching · video · wikipedia
iPhone or not?
July 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Dan Costa from PC Mag.com writes an interesting article entitled Don’t Buy an iPhone 3G. Just change AT&T to O² and do the $ to £ conversion and it fits.
Tags: Technology
Cloudo – more cloud computing
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments
Following close on the heels of MobileMe from Apple, Swedish Startup Cloudo are in the process of developing the next generation of computing access – computers for the mobile generation. Their online computer means that you can access your data (files, photos, music, calendars, workspaces) and collaborate with friends and colleagues from any computer, mobile [...]
Tags: Learning · Technology · changing culture · cloud computing · collaboration
OU joins iTunes U
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments
The OU has become the second UK university (after UCL) to make its content accessible through iTunes U. It joins other world class universities such as Yale, Stanford and MIT in making course materials available for free download. It plans to have 500 video and audio materials from 50 courses on iTunes U by the [...]
Tags: Learning · changing culture · teaching
Making it happen: teaching the technology generation
July 7th, 2008 · 5 Comments
This is a video of my presentation to the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber on June 10th at Bradford University. The sub-title of the presentation was Beyond “no significant difference”, on the basis that, in education, we use technology to do things the same way as we have always done rather than [...]
Tags: Learning · Technology · Web 2.0 · changing culture · teaching · tools
Do schools kill creativity?
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Learning · TED · teaching
Education for a digital world
July 4th, 2008 · No Comments
This book gives a detailed and comprehensive coverage of how digital technologies can be used to transform our present, outdated, industrial model of education. Co-published by BC Campus and the Commonwealth of Learning, it is available as a free download. As we are aware, despite the widespread availability of new technologies, their impact on teaching [...]
Tags: Learning · Technology · Web 2.0 · changing culture · collaboration · social · teaching
