Learning Goals – supporting agile learning

If you’ve ever been part of a learning group with me, or we’ve worked together in education, I’d be keen to get feedback from you about the Learning Goals project which I’m hoping to move forward over the next while.

The aim is to build a small, focused tool to support self-paced learning and peer review both . . . → Read More: Learning Goals – supporting agile learning

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

Alice comes to Android

Anyone who’s used Alice for helping people learn computer programming might be interested to know that Alice 3 runs on Linux too, and Google have released AppInventor – which uses a very similar interface to allow non-developers experiment with creating apps for their phone.

A few years ago, while working in education I outlined a Wikiversity resource for . . . → Read More: Alice comes to Android

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