I loved watching Sir Ken Robinson’s Bring on the learning revolution TED talk today, and it’s exciting to see the attention it’s been getting. Anyone who knows me (in an educational context) knows that I am passionate about learner-centred education. Equipping and facilitating learners with the skills to define and direct our own learning goals – rather than . . . → Read More: Learning revolution or evolution?
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I just noticed that teachingopensource.org is having it’s first meeting at 15:00 UTC tomorrow (24th March 09) on IRC (#teachingopensource on freenode)! Looking forward to joining the discussion there… At the same time, Andrew Oliver is drafting some grass-roots educational initiatives over at the Open Source Initiative (currently just . . . → Read More: OSI Education project and Teaching Open Source Today marks one whole year since Franzie, the kids and I left Australia and flew to Berlin for a planned 7 year stint. It’s probably been the craziest year of our lives, so I hope the next 6 years here in Germany will be much more settled! In overview: Three weeks after we landed we moved out . . . → Read More: First year in Germany – a retrospective Just attended the keynote at RailsConf Europe to hear David Heinemeier Hansson talking about Legacy code – code that you or someone else wrote a while back that isn’t, well, isn’t quite up to the standards you’d now expect to see – and how to avoid frustration working with legacy code. It doesn’t sound like a particular . . . → Read More: Legacy code is for Learning One of the tools I’ve been toying with while thinking about improving our Web Design course is FlashCardExchange. Sure, flashcards don’t necessarily provide deep processing of what we learn, but they can be pretty effective in helping us gauge our own understanding. I’ve set up the card set Web Design Level 1 with 13 questions so far, . . . → Read More: Flashcards for Web Design |
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