Schools are big ships. Sometimes ships do exactly what they're supposed to. Sometimes they run aground or sink. Sometimes old ships don't really work as well as new ones, other times the old ones bring something qualitatively wonderful. All these ships have a couple of things in common. First, if they're not heading to a [...]
In my last post I wrote drawing an analogy between learning to implement technology in teaching & learning, and the fundamentals of Buddhism. I'm following up today by applying the same philosophy outside of your own development, and dealing with the unexpected. What about everybody else? What about when conditions change, tools disappear or new [...]
This year I've been working with a lot of people just making their first steps into using technology for learning. For some of these people who aren't regular, comfortable users, it's a leviathan undertaking. For most of them it's involved a new operating system that's more than ten years younger than the last one they [...]
Back to school next week. Here's a nice little piece of reading to infuse into your thoughts to begin the new semester. When I was at high school, the standard line trotted out to us at parent information evenings and during career education was that a significant percentage of us would find themselves employed [...]
When we take our class on an excursion, we have the whole damn thing mapped out meticulously in our heads, our clipboards, our inboxes, on our phones/tablets, and in the heads of our co-workers and students. Not just in this reality, either. We've got plans, backup plans, and contingency plans for every possible eventuality [...]
