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Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Laurel Pap­worth has some inter­est­ing com­ments on generation-Y (digi-kids) and the dis­con­nec­ted nature of our cur­rent gov­ern­ments. Laurel’s post ref­er­ences this art­icle in the Sydney Morn­ing Her­ald (Laurel: the reason why Fair­fax doesn’t believe in the long tail is that it hasn’t worked out its busi­ness model yet)
Hav­ing spent two days with a selec­tion of […]

Online = talking about what you are interested in!

Monday, March 26th, 2007

From World in their Hands, Sydney Morn­ing Her­ald Icon today:
But Dr Jan Fletcher, of the Child Study Centre at the Uni­ver­sity of West­ern Aus­tralia, is wary of vir­tual lives for chil­dren. “There is a danger that this online inter­ac­tion might be lim­it­ing the amount of social inter­ac­tion the child is actu­ally hav­ing,” she warns. “I want […]

Learning Technology Challenge. It’s not the Technology.

Monday, March 26th, 2007

As high­lighted by one of Australia’s lead­ing Social Net­work­ing thinkers in Edu­ca­tion, Mike Sey­fang, tech­no­logy in schools is already in schools. Mobile phones, the MSN Mes­sen­ger com­munit­ies, blogs, Myspace, Wiki­pe­dia: these tech­no­lo­gies are being used by stu­dents today.
One per­vas­ive tech­no­logy that hounds par­ents today is the use of MSN Live Mes­sen­ger. It’s the stand­ard tool for […]

Kevin Richardson, Headmaster, Immanuel College

Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Kevin Richard­son, Head­mas­ter of Immanuel Col­lege, on the Future of Learning.

Going to see Mr Wikipedia

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Jimmy Wales in is Aus­tralia for the education.au organ­isa­tion. I’ll be there in Sydney on the 26th April.

In the Digital Generation Gap

Monday, February 19th, 2007

If you are not a par­ent or teacher with chil­dren between the ages of 5–15, you might want to read some­thing else. I know how it gets when people talk about kids.
If you are a teacher or par­ent, wel­come to the new inter­net gen­er­a­tion gap.
An art­icle pub­lished in the New York magazine, Say Everything, details the […]