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Over the last few weeks I've been thinking about the Australian Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution (DER). The presentation arising from that thinking will be given later this week and am hoping the slides will be up soon. I'm currently thinking about the People aspect of the DER. In particular, I'm wondering if the digital visitors and residents idea might need to be modified a bit in light of the protean nature of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and ideas like Douglas Rushkoff's Program or be Programmed....more...
So the Australian Federal Government recognises that there is something going on (DEEWR, 2010)...more...
So I'm working on an assignment examining and critiquing the government's Digital Education Revolution (DER). It looks like the argument I'm going to make is that it won't be a success. Where success is defined as achieving its goals, which is to...more...
The following is a bit of a summary and initial reflection on the Teaching teachers for the future project that is currently underway in Australia as part of the Australian Government's Digital Education Revolution (DER). The project...more...
At some stage in the last week I was pointed to this report/paper from Michael Fullan titled "Choosing the wrong drivers for whole system reform". The argument is that the large-scale reforms of K-12 education being undertaken in both the USA and Australia are destined to fail because they have adopted exactly the wrong drivers to encourage system-wide reform that actually improves learning outcomes for all students....more...
I have a problem. I'm hoping you can solve it by pointing to an existing tool or collection of tools that might solve it. I'm pretty sure there will be prior work in this area (e.g. social bookmark visualisation, the metadata/library crowd, knowledge management, networks, the visualisation and I suppose even data analytics groups, and maybe the connectivist folk), even if it isn't explicitly connected to teaching....more...
So, yet another assignment as a pre-service teacher. This one is a 2000 word report on a challenge facing Queensland education. The title of this post is the current title for my report. The following contains the "abstract" we were required to post to the course discussion forum and some initial planning for the broader report. If you have any suggestions fire away....more...
I'm in the process of reading up on the Australian Federal Government's Digital Education Revolution. There appear to be some interesting things going on, but there are also a few things that I'm shaking my head at....more...
@sthcrft has reflected and expanded upon this article from The Australian on research graduates wanting a career in academia. In particular, the point is made that increasingly academics are payed a comparative pittance, have little or no job security, and being sent mixed messages about the relative importance of research and teaching (see the last paragraph of The Australian article). I'd like to add my 2c worth....more...
The following is a first draft of part of an assignment for a University course titled "Learning and Pedagogy in Secondary". A part of the assignment description is...more...