Video 1 in the Award Leader Series that answers many of the questions asked by aspiring Award Leaders of the International Award for Young People. Rob Oliphant, Regional Programme Manager, Asia Pacific, talks about the challenges and rewards of being an Award Leader. Filmed in Bali, Indonesia during the November 2011 Award Leader Training. Filmed …
Macrowikinomics and PCF6
I’m currently in Cochin, India for the Sixth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. The theme of the conference is ‘Access and Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives‘. I’m here with a contingent from the International Award Association for whom praxMatrix is developing an Online Award Leader Training platform for the Asia Pacific region in conjunction …
Is the Web Dumbing Us All Down?
Tara Brabazon, Professor of Media at the University of Brighton, has a lot to say… and loudly … about the insidious effect on our ability to analyse and engage critically with information when we rely on the ‘McDonald’s, fries and Coke’ of the Internet, Google (Brabazon’s other descriptives for Google are the ‘whitebread’ and the …
E-learning in France: Anything new?
I’m back in France for a couple of months after eight months in Australia. Having spent most of my working life in Europe, particularly in France, working on various digital media projects I am very interested to see how the French are thinking about e-learning in 2010. France was slow to pick up on the …
Australia ‘Under Surveillance’
Last month Reporters Without Borders, the watchdog for press freedom on the internet published its updated list of ‘internet enemy’ countries that ‘restrict online access and harass their netizens‘ as well as the list of countries ‘under surveillance’ that ‘display a disturbing attitude toward the Internet‘. Internet enemy countries include Burma, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, …
One Laptop Per Child
The OLPC project founded by Nicholas Negroponte is a shining example of how access to digital media and learning can really change lives. As Negroponte is keen to point out, this is not about the laptops, it’s about education and learning and the positive results are irrefutable. This is an education project not a laptop …
The Future of Education: Snippet 1
I’m tracking down commentary on what education requires for the future or what schools and education may look like in the future. Here is is the first snippet from the PBS network in the USA. Marc Prensky is the author of Don’t Bother Me Mom — I’m Learning and argues for a complete about-face in …
Digital Literacy
It’s a commonplace perception that kids born after internet access started to find its way into our lives have an incredible capacity for picking up and using new technologies but in terms of developing digital skills that will be critical throughout their schooling and into their working lives, are these kids being provided with the educational …
