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…a 21st-century education should prepare students to be knowledge creators – not simply receptacles of existing knowledge. Educause Review published an amazing book exerpt this month, chapter 12 from Course Management Systems for Learning: Beyond Accidental Pedagogy (this chapter is written by Van Weigel). I say amazing mainly because I had so many ‘aha’ or ‘yeah!’ experiences while . . . → Read More: Knowledge receivers – Knowledge Creators Just had an unreal presentation by Russ Weakley (WebStandards Group, MaxDesign and WebEssentials05) demonstrating a real site being designed step-by-step using CSS. Apart from being an incredible opportunity to witness the process and thoughts of a design professional in action, Russ’s presentation has also challenged me to rethink they way I facilitate at TAFE. I think what . . . → Read More: Web Design meets Teaching Practice With workshops, skype calls, content-restructure, new content creation and some marketing thrown in on the side, it’s been a busy two weeks! Evaluating the Blogging in Education resource I’ve had two opportunities over the past few weeks to run Getting Started with Blogging in Education as a face-to-face activity within TAFE, and it’s been great fun! Although this . . . → Read More: ‘Bi-weekly’ report 5: Blended Learning While browsing through the Personalised Learning project at the Centre for Learning Innovation yesterday I came across some excellent reading from Working laterally: how innovation networks make an education epidemic: David Hargreaves argues that schools will be transformed only when teachers embrace the ‘hacker ethic’ – a passion for developing new practice and a readiness to share . . . → Read More: Innovation networks in Education |
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