Category: Future
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What online should be like?
Here is a video on effective elearning. It’s good but it is also simple. Future? Can’t see the video – click here
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Teaching themselves
What happens when you let a group of kids teach themselves? Would it be effective. Would it be as effective as our current system? Watch the video below to see if it does work. I must admit these kids appear to be a little different to the kids I have met recently but maybe….? Can’t…
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World Education
Please read the article. Good on her but is this good. I liked Julia but she didn’t achieve anything in regard to Australia’s educational woes. In her defence no one really has but surely a track record should be a part of the selection criteria for a job like this. When is someone going to…
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Sunday Zephyr – 2014 Trends
I like future predictions. Many of them will probably be wrong. Many things will occur that no-one ever thought of (what will 2014 hold in that space). What predictions do achieve is that they get you think about possibilities and consequences. So this first slide set is the 100 things to watch in 2014. I…
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The New Year – what’s happening below the surface
Check out Justins photo’s here! Back again. I have been on a small break completely free of technology. I recommend it for everyone. It is very relaxing. It is amazing how much you don’t miss the technology as well as you really don’t miss much of anything, eg news, information, crap etc. You definitely get…
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Sunday Zephyr – Education and Next Year
There has been a lot of talk this year about education but as we close the year we again realise that most of it was just that, talk. Nothing has really changed this year. Promises, dreams of technology…..nothing. In certain classrooms and training venues though innovation, engagement, enthusiasm and effective, fun learning has occurred despite…
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Cloud Computing
I hope you have heard about the title of this post – cloud computing. Many find this concept difficult to understand and I have often attempted to explain it to trainers and educators unsatisfactorily. Below is a complicated video featuring cloud computing and Stephen Fry. He does a good job explaining it and why it…
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Winding Down or Up?
Are you winding down for the year? I have heard a number of people making that comment already and it I think it says a lot about how hard we are working in today’s world. Winding down is good but I am starting to wind up. I finally have a bit if free time (at…
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What will the future of education be?
Who knows? Maybe the guy below? Maybe not? It is an interesting set of slides and also a video at the end. Worth a look and listen and a bit of reflection. You have probably heard parts of it before. I think they are all guessing and poking around but the real answer is that…
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Education Podcasts Special
I have just recently listened to two podcasts from Dan Pink on education and schooling. They do have an American spin to them but they still apply to Australia. What is interesting is that what the two authors are complaining about in regard to American education is exactly where we are heading. Have a listen…