Pitching the learning goals project

I met up with a bunch of great people today to talk about creating a pitch for our projects. Based on the feedback from that discussion and another discussion at dinner, here’s my first attempt to pitch the Learning Goals project in 2 minutes…

I know I’m not good at this kind of thing, so please help . . . → Read More: Pitching the learning goals project

World of Goo for learning

I’ve finally got around to trying out World of Goo with my kids. I’d read lots about World of Goo (mostly because of the way it was developed and because it’s available for Linux), and it always sounded like an fun game that would help kids learn simple physics without even knowing it.

Watching my kids play . . . → Read More: World of Goo for learning

Agile learning and agile education

I am trying to find links and resources about applying Agile development methodologies to education and learning. Three years ago (almost to the day) I wrote agile learning – an alternative learning model, and am now really keen to get back into this line of thought in my spare time. If you have any links or . . . → Read More: Agile learning and agile education

I want to help people learn

Back in 2007, I asked myself the following question:

How do you:

meet the individual learning needs of a diverse bunch of learners, and
assess individuals in their mix of individual and group learning in a fair, valid, sustainable way,
all-the-while demonstrating how individuals can themselves set, review and work towards their own learning goals – gradually handing over control of . . . → Read More: I want to help people learn

I am redundant

As of today I am on the road to being redundant.

At the start of every semester I give a spiel to new learners in our class about how one of my main aims is to make myself redundant (as a source of web design and development knowledge). Today a few learners in class politely informed me . . . → Read More: I am redundant