Complexity, learner as cobbler, or why I love mash-ups
Michael Gallagher Just finished making my way through The Future of Learning from Steve Wheeler on Slideshare (see below) and thought it an excellent overview of the trends in learning overall and…
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Tree of Life and a Maturity of Learning
I must admit my bias ahead of this post here. I adore Terence Malick. His four films, Badlands, Days of Heaven, Thin Red Line, and the New World are all…
Arcades Project, The Brooklyn Bridge, and Urban Cultural Heritage
The semester at the University of Edinburgh is winding up so I will be returning here to post more regularly. I am finishing the last of my projects for the…
James Brown and the Original Video Tutorial
For lack of a better term, this is incredible. Is this not the greatest tutorial video ever produced? It gives a great indication of an artist who knows his audience,…
Learning as Reflexive; Reality as a Series of Filters
I am a sort of pseudo-technophile. I don’t champion it all that often as I have always been of the belief that technology equates to utility so if the utility…
Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the teaching revolution!
Once again, Sir Ken Robinson brings a lot of wit and poignancy to the discussion involving education reform. “We don’t need an evolution of education, rather a revolution. ” This…
Teaching and Learning in Decentralized Spaces
I enjoyed this presentation from George Siemens, Athabasca University, on teaching and learning in decentralized spaces. I have heard similar arguments before and concur generally. There seems to be a…