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I've just started reading Capra & Luigi Luisi (2014), in large part because I think that the shift in scientific thinking they apparently describe in the book may have some useful insights for BAD/SET mindsets and trying to understand and improve digital learning....more...
Here we go again. There's an OECD report on "Students, Computers and Learning" that is doing the rounds. @palbion points to one media report...more...
The first key takeaway from Motz, Teague and Shepard (2015) is...more...
In a bit more than an hour I'll be talking to @catspyjamasnz trying to nut out some ideas for a project around LX Design and Learning Analytics. The following is me thinking out loud and working through "my issues"....more...
by CRC, University of Edinburgh ...more...
Apparently teacher education has a technology knowledge problem....more...
22 years ago I helped a group of undergraduate Information Technology students set up CQ-PAN - Central Queensland - Public Access Network. An early attempt to allow CQ residents get on the Internet. CQ-PAN got used by a range of people for a range of tasks. In 1994 CQ-PAN started hosting mailing lists for a range of purposes, including for courses being taught by my then employer, the Department of Mathematics and Computing (who were funding the hardware)....more...
The students in a course I'm teaching are asked to reflect on their own work and respond to the question embedded in the title to this post. What follows is mostly a test post to illustrate how it will all work, but also captures some of my views....more...
Two of my recent publications (Jones & Clark, 2015; Jones, Heffernan & Albion, 2016) seek to explore and identify the problems faced by teachers in developing the knowledge necessary to teach in e-learning/digital learning environments. Both suggest that there are significant problems with how this is currently done and offer some theoretical suggestions about how it might be improved. Jones & Clark (2015) suggest that the BAD/SET mindsets offer one way to understand the problems of the current approaches, and outline some fruitful ways forward....more...
I must be getting old and have spent far too long in universities and educational technology. I keep seeing the wheel being reinvented all over again....more...
Below you will find the slides, abstract, and references for a talk given to folk from the University of South Australia on 1 October, 2015. A later blog post outlines core parts of the argument....more...
Wood & Hollnagel (2006) start by presenting the Bounded Rationality syllogism...more...