Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Thursday, February 11th, 2016
This post is prompted by The engagement era - and the artist's place within it, written by Courtney Johnston (director of the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt). She has been pondering the shifting fashions for 'collection' vs 'education' vs 'engagement' in museums and galleries, trying to make sense of the ...
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2014
"Digital citizenship" is a phrase I encounter often in my educational travels. Rather than merely teach how to use software and hardware, we should realize that students are citizens in an online world and teach them how to live in such a place. It sounds good on the surface, but ...
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Sunday, June 16th, 2013
(this post is about the New Zealand education system. I wanted to say more than Twitter made easy)
NZ has an amazing education system. We went through the "Tomorrow's Schools" revolution in the 1990s, which devolved governance of schools to the communities in which those schools sit. A Remuera ...
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Thursday, July 12th, 2012
Most of us have a case of "you don't know what you don't know": we don't know the range of what's possible, so we continue doing things as we've seen them done before but with slight improvements. I think of it as being in a dark room: by looking at ...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2012
I've been in the position of being a geek talking with teachers for a while, and I've found it best to approach the whole area of education with humility. In education, as in business, you can't just thrust technology into a situation and magically get the best possible result. ...
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