Posted in blogging on Dec 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Today I moved this blog and all the old posts from edublogs to wordpress com at learningau.wordpress.com
That’s http://learningau.wordpress.com
Thanks Edublogs for the last two years of hosting this blog, and for your support of the edublogging community. I’ve heard James Fraser speak about learning and I know he’s passionate about it, but I couldn’t live [...]
Posted in blogging on Dec 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Last day at work for the year today, and heading up to the Snowy Mountains for a few days to do some walking, breathe some air and slow down.
Looking back at some of my posts over the last month or so I do sound a bit tired and jaded. It was nice to get the [...]
Posted in conferences on Dec 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I wished I’d had these axioms on hand a couple of weeks ago when I was in a meeting looking at our strategic directions for technology. From Will Richardson’s blog, they’re are simple and powerful statements of future directions:
1) Our schools must be inquiry-driven, thoughtful and empowering for all members
2) Our schools must be about [...]
Posted in curriculum, politics on Dec 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Well there wasn’t a lot of actual guns thankfully, but a lot of implied threats, angst, legal wrangling and big money at stake this week in the Federal Parliament as school funding and national curriculum and political ambitions all got tangled up. There were threats, counter-threats, bluffs, bullying and bravado, and while education was front [...]
Posted in politics on Dec 1st, 2008 No Comments »
I was going to blog last week about Chris Lehmann’s excellent post last week on Expectations of Student Behaviour, which argued that teachers are sometimes guilty of some degree of hypocrisy in the way that they treat students and the expectations they have of them, and argues in part:
One of the things that never seems [...]
