teaching and learning

I’m a bit of a fan of Will Richardson’s work, though I do think he’s a bit hard on teachers at times and not always recognising the good things that are happening. I guess that’s the stance you have take when you’re advocating wholesale reform of systems.
His most recent  article, Footprints in the Digital Age, [...]

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We hold these truths to be self evident: that giving students some choice in their own learning directions is likely to lead to them becoming more actively engaged in their own learning, and likely to help them find that ‘thing’ they love.
So, I was pleased to read in the NY TImes today that some US [...]

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Radio National’s Australia Talks program had an interesting discussion on the ‘education revolution’, national curriculum and assorted responses to educational issues including the crowded curriculum.
The thing  liked was the refreshing lack of politics to the discussion, thg good sense and, from a couple of speakers, the emphasis on hearing student voices in the debate. Would [...]

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The k-12 Online Conference I blogged about back in May has just begun, with an initial presentation by Dr Stephen Heppell already online.  Details of his pre-conference keynote ‘“It Simply Isn’t the 20th Century Any More Is It?: So Why Would We Teach as Though It Was?” are available HERE and the full program for [...]

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Ever since the Expanding Learning Horizons Conference in Lorne and particularly Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s presentation which I blogged about earlier, I’ve been thinking about the importance of professional networks, formal and informal, between schools and within, particularly in their potential in promoting change. I think it will be my big curriculum theme next year.
Those thoughts were [...]

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