Hiya,
Trust is an interesting issue. I went through the same worry about will they/won’t they watch the video clips that I put up on Moodle. A few weeks later when the unit was over I asked for some honest […]

Hi Jason. An interesting post on “knowledge.” I’m not sure that any “knowledge” no matter how old can ever be obsolete. It may be outdated and unusable and “old “knowledge may have since been superseded by “new […]

The new library sounds wonderful and even “revolutionary.” Who can predict today what future libraries will be like and even if they will continue to exist, but if they do survive this technological rollercoaster […]

What I find amazing is that Dewey, Vygotsky, Piaget, Montessorie were all born in the 19th Century and were all writing seminal papers on educational reform, pedagogies learning styles, multiple intelligences and […]

“Ignorance can be forgiven in their youth, but they need to be media mature before the law sees them as legally responsible.” This is exactly the line of rationale that I express in “How Private is Private?” […]

Considering copyright in a digital world uses the Web 2.0 definition from Wikipedia; “A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with each other as contributors to the website’s content, in contrast to websites […]

Interestingly the Fair Use Project set up by Stanford Law School uses the term “appropriation” in helping to define creativity. Images from the public domain which are then used to create a work that is new or […]

Yes really brilliant. There is a lot of sound common sense in what he says and his findings are at the same time shocking but obvious. His data and statistics are evidence enough to show that 2 basic principles are required for successful learning. The first is the support and encouragement that is given by [...]

My interpretation of the article “Disrupting the Class” is somewhat different to yours. If authentic differentiation “in the classroom” means using technology to cater for the one on one provision needed by every single student then why not – in the words of Christensen – have “no class at all.” He arrives at this “disruptive [...]