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I’m sitting in bed as I type this, currently unable to sleep.  As is increasingly the norm these days I’ve been pondering what appears to be a growing disconnect between my passionate beliefs in learning – and how best to nurture it – and the current state of education – and where it is headed.  I’m frustrated with the standoff.
I believe quite strongly in the personalisation of learning, and the significance of each person finding their own way through the educational landscape.  Education and formal educational …

Jenny Mackness posted an interested question on her blog earlier this week on the implications of slow blogging, saying:
“I read an article in a daily paper…about slow blogging. The article said that slow blogging had been a very popular idea, but that the person who had originally raised the whole idea of slow blogging now no longer blogged, presumably (according to the article) because people got fed up of waiting for the next blog post. This is an interesting dilemma – don’t you think? On the one hand we need …

My hands are full with sleeping baby at the moment, so I can’t include an adequate commentary on this clip except to say that Sir Ken Robinson’s talk is absolutely brilliant. I’ll try and come back to this later.
More information on the talk is available on the TED site.

Call me an uber geek, but I just finished setting up Compiz on my Ubuntu box tonight and wanted to share a screencast of where I’m at so far. Compiz is a brilliant piece of work that I highly recommend taking a look at. It definitely keeps things visually stimulating.

As mentioned several weeks ago, I gave a short somewhat informal presentation regarding the CCK08 student experience at the Open Education Workshop on November 21st. The event was held at Macquarie University and had a nice diverse turn-out of attendees from across many different levels of education – including primary, secondary, tertiary, and even government.
I’ve just received word that the recordings of the event have been released and are now available for download via the Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software (ASK-OSS) website, who were largely responsible …

 

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