Online resources for London history: a research toolkit to support mobile learning & teaching
Michael Gallagher Every so often as a reader, I find these types of posts useful so I wanted to provide one here. This post merely presents the online resources I use to…
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Sir Ken Robinson and TED: Creativity in Education and Drawing God
Sir Ken Robinson in this video is speaking about education and how it squanders creativity. The most convincing sequence, in my opinion, is when he speaks about the future and…
Flight Patterns as Teaching Tools: Visualizations painting a conceptual picture
I am a sort of educational parasite. There, I said it. I do not feel remorse or shame or anything of the sort about this. In fact, I revel in…
Singularity and Education
I was thinking a bit about my previous post here on the difficulties experienced in certain developing nations when it comes to scholarship. Mostly this is due to access issues…
Digital Media: Subway Maps as Tools for Teaching History
You can file this post more under ‘teaching ideas’ than anything particularly original. If I were to wait for something truly original to conjure itself in my head, then I…
The Digital Media and Learning Initiative entitled The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media Part 2
Last night, Rahim and I went to The Power of Youth Voice: What Kids Learn When They Create With Digital Media, an event hosted by the MacArthur Foundation, The Woodrow…
Nietzsche, Jason Schwartzman, Mozart and Discord: Teaching philsophy/art online
I have been thinking of the seeming limitations of online learning formats for teaching critical thinking, especially critical thinking as it applied to philsophy or the appreciation of art (as…