Boredom … don’t we all remember at least one teacher who had mastered the art of Boring Students. This video from neurologist Judy Willis started with her realising that teachers were reporting more and more cases of kids who had ‘learning’ disorders or ATD etc and, when she took a closer look it turned out …
Participatory Learning Workshop, Seoul, Korea 25-29 October,2010
I’ll be in Seoul, Korea between the 24th October and the 30th October presenting at the International Award Association’s ‘Asia Pacific Regional Training Workshop’. I’ll be running a two hour workshop on the 27th that will concentrate firstly on what learners, and especially Generation Y learners, expect of the learning experience and what participatory, constructivist …
Developing Creativity to Make Sense of Digital Literacy
I’m getting seriously excited. For months I’ve been wondering exactly how digital literacy skills could be developed in ways that were relevant to the extra ordinary demands to reshape the way we use media and information while, simultaneously, ensuring that basic literacy skills such as reading and writing are given their proper place as the …
Transmedia: Fear of the Lexicon Goblins
Transmedia. Just another word for the bulging digital media lexicon? Is it replacing ‘multi-channel’ or ‘multi-platform’ or even ‘cross-media’ or that old dinosaur ‘multi-media’? The Wikipedia entry for ‘transmedia storytelling‘ tells us: A transmedia project develops storytelling across multiple forms of media in order to have different “entry points” in the story; entry-points with a …
Education & Creativity
Fostering, recognizing and encouraging creativity is a theme that nearly every digital media expert recognises as being central to a discussion on how we successfully steer our way into the future. One of the most inspiring voices on creativity is Sir Ken Robinson. Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children and champions a radical …
