Art and Education and WTF is Engagement Anyway?
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 …
education
Citizenship
“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 …
What is PaCT and Why Did It Cost $6M?
(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” …
Schools and Belief
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 …
Education and Technology
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 …