David Crystal – texts and tweets: myths and realities

Thanks to Ben Jones for alerting me to David Crystal’s recent talk. Like you, I have many of his books on my shelf and find his insights into language, especially the English language, sage.  Read More

Life-long learning in "twenty-ten"

I’ve decided to pronounce the year “twenty-ten”. Not sure what the popular wisdom on this matter will be but I suspect most will continue with the “two thousand and…” that we have been using for the first decade of the 21st century. “Twenty-ten” sounds like the never-arriving future is here - and I like that! It is a minor matter. What is more important than these semantics, from my POV, is personal... Read More

The New Media Literacies

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Once Upon a School

Dave Eggers delivering a TED talk on what a community can do to educate young people.  Read More

Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves

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