Tim O'Reilly Explains the Internet of Things
I really enjoyed this post from Read Write Web, the ‘Internet of Things’, highlighting Tim O’Reilly’s recent keynote. Some viewing. The first video is 5 minutes long and the second is 36 minute but worth your time. After my viewing, I had the following in my mind: Q: What does it all mean for our students, communities and for us, as learning professionals, working in large education systems endeavouring to change them?... Read More
Whatever Happened to the Book is Happening Now!
At great risk of appearing unneccesarily sycophantic, I need to say that Mark Pesce‘s post, Whatever Happened to the Book, is clever, unusually clever, even for Mark. Everything that currently intellectually interests (read obsesses me) about literature and our hyperconnected age is explored. Please read it closely and tell your friends, especially if they are teachers still learning. Here’s a taste, I particularly enjoyed the third... Read More
Google won't make us stupid
“Most experts agree that Google won’t make us stupid.” PREDICTIONS Read More
5 Minds for the Future
I managed to read Howard Gardner’s most recent book, 5 Minds for the Future these holidays and think it a useful tract. I enjoyed the book. It would be rare that an educator did not know Gardner’s contested work on multiple intelligences and to have made use of it in their classroom. He opens his book suggesting that the these ’minds’ will be needed collectively and by individuals who are to ‘thrive’ in our... Read More
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