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Ideas that can change the world
Went with Patrick to this excellent meeting of young and old minds. We spoke to Cameron (8) who told us his ideas for a “mp3 and mp4″ player so that he wouldn’t get bored when avoiding his younger...
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RSA talkaoke
A fascinating evening sitting in the Star Trek-like environment of Talkaoke at the RSA. Discussing the development of an online environment for the RSA Fellows. A wide-ranging discussion which homed...
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RSA Networks workshop
The objective of this workshop was to begin a new kind of RSA fellowship engagement ‘RSA networks’, and to discover what they might do and how they might work. A stimulating ‘Open technology’ format...
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Channel 4 Education Debate – Staying On?
“Will ‘staying on’ to 18 raise education standards and improve the employability and promote social mobility as the Government believe?” This was one of the questions put to a panel and a small...
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Content is muck
I have been reading the report ‘On-line Innovation in Higher Education‘ submitted by Sir Ron Cooke to John Denham recently and I’m not impressed. It seems to be but a variation on the ‘content is...
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Just read Paul Haigh’s blog on opting-out of Building Schools for the Future ICT , in which he speaks of the injustice for leading & innovating schools – “The DCSF will say there is a fair...
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Analysis of a single interaction
I revived this Analysis of a single interaction recently thanks to a PhD student who is working on user-centred design. It was first developed in 1988 based on Donald Norman’s work, applied to the...
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Old lobster almost boiled
The second annual Learning on the Beach unconference #lob11 has just scattered – I am blown away, boiled, invigorated and inundated – and that was just the weather. We were a self-select group of ‘old...
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Learning Theory
I have been working for the HoTEL EU Support Action recently at Brunel University and I was asked to produced a report on learning theories – a struggle, since there seem to be so many ‘isms’ and...
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Jigsaw programming
A program to compute the factorial of a number using Blockly I’m sure many of my readers will know what I mean, but just in case, I am talking about the visual programming languages for programming...
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The system and the individual
It’s been a week! Tá badge First, Friday last –I hear about the success of the ‘Tá’ (Yes) in the Irish referendum to repeal the 8th amendment to their constitution that forbade abortion – no more. By...
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