Category: Future
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Education across the World
Interesting video which worries me a little. I can see what he is doing and saying but I am not sure that education is about be more successful. The best? I am not sure what the best and successful is. If you take the economical view better education, better skilled and knowledgeable people, better country,…
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Your training room?
Does your classroom like this. I am going to bet that it doesn’t. I have a few people during sessions who will have a laptop open but most don’t and we still don’t have good wireless connectivity, the actual laptops, ipads etc or the need to have them operating during a training session. I…
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Looking Through the Google Glass
You might have already seen the video below. It has millions of views already. I wrote a post about Google glasses about a year ago. It looks very interesting and there are many positive and negative impacts for education. Can’t see the video – click here. In case you don’t know much about the glasses…
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Gonski Overload. May He Rest in Peace.
I am getting a bit sick of hearing about the Gonski report especially when you suspect that it will probably fade away like most other reviews with little to show for the enormous expense. Here is a quick summary of what it is about from the government website. In 2010 the Australian Government commissioned a…
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What is happening to my career?
Over the last 12 months I am facilitating less face to face, doing more online and definitely working from home more. Despite those changes I am earning more and working more, so it must be good. So where is it heading? I have also attended three MOOCs myself and found them to be very rewarding.…
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Australian Education System – Can there ever be a balanced debate?
Please read this article first. I like it. It isn’t necessarily balanced but it is fair I think. Read the comments below it and your blood will start to boil depending on which side of the fence you belong to. I guess anything I add will be either be seen as stupid or wow,…
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MOOC’s and the Future
Not sure what a MOOC is check this video out first before looking at the article below. Can’t see the video – click here. Here is a great article from Harvard Business Review on MOOC’s. It is basically 8 people commenting on various aspects rather than on one person’s opinion. I am currently enrolled in…
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Making Science Interesting
Good teaching and training is about making your content interesting by delivering it in a multitude of interesting ways. Maybe, toady you are going to have a beer, possibly a Guinness (a favourite beer of mine). Could a glass of Guinness be used to teach science. The video below proves it can. Can you make…
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Wake up Australian Curriculum
If you read the articles, newspapers and other internet traffic regarding education in Australia over the last few months, like I have, you would have been saturated in content about the failing school system, poor teaching standards, useless curriculum and the new educational blueprint for the future. Please watch the video below. It is about…
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Conferences
What conferences are you going to attend this year? Maybe none as there are some many good things happening on line that you don’t need to step out of the house. Personally I am attending regular webcasts and at present a number of MOOC’s which I am finding challenging but fun. This year’s EdTech conference…