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I had a great time getting together with a bunch of people yesterday to talk about how Peter Shanks’ Training Packages Unwrapped website can (and is) changing the way that we learn and help others learn here in Australia – simply by making our training packages easily accessible. While chatting about possibilities, we talked about our own . . . → Read More: My vision for learners in the 21st Century “Alan Kay is saying that the problem with education is the adults, their lack of imagination and their dislike for maths and science…” from Bill Kerr’s The problem . . . → Read More: The problem with education… While preparing for the start of next semester (and at the same time trying to help my daughter learn basic life skills) I keep thinking how useful it would be to be able to visualise our individual learning in a way that: highlights the relationships between different learning areas in our lives (perhaps using distance as a . . . → Read More: Visualising our learning I don’t generally watch much tv, let alone write about it, but I was excited recently to watch episode 4 of Decadence – the meaninglessness of modern life: “In this episode, Pria considers the undervaluing of a broad ‘western’ education in modern Australia and the narrow emphasis on money and profit which has replaced it. He speaks . . . → Read More: Western decadence and education says our Prime Minister, John Howard. According to the Age article, PM criticises teachers stop work meeting in Victoria: “They shouldn’t be gathering in Melbourne on Thursday, they should be at school on Thursday,” Mr Howard told federal parliament. “it’s this kind of behaviour by teachers that gives government schools a bad name,” he . . . → Read More: Teachers should be at school |
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