I was listening to one of the recordings of my Iyengar Yoga teacher from Australia today. She’s very renowned and has been practising and teaching for over 30 years. She also teaches teachers, which is why she made this comment:
“The art of teaching is to say something complicated in simple way”
It struck me […]
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There’s an interesting story by Richard Sarson over at the Guardian in which he interviews children about their internet usage and the role technology plays in their lives. They might not be a terribly representative sample, but it does confirm what we have been saying for some time - children are much more able to […]
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Jerry Johnson, one of the mentors for Omnium’s Creative Waves 2005 project wrote a short paper about his experience of it for Troy University’s eCampus Colloquium 2007.
Jerry is a professor of graphic design at Troy University and Chairman of the Department of Art and Design. After all this time, it was great to hear his […]
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There’s a thoughtful article about learning platforms by Martin Owen over at Futurelab’s Flux blog.
In it he discusses the issues that VLE’s are incredibly constraining and set up neo-Fordist practices of education.
At worst the Learning Platform mentality is about tracking, delivery, assessment, recording… it is a production line, sausage machine vision of education. […]
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One of Omnium’s collaborators, Prof. Curt Bonk from Indiana University just blogged a very interesting post called A Quick 30 Writing Tips for the Start of an Academic Career (although I notice the permalink has 20 tips in the title - he must have run away with himself).
Curt is perhaps one of the most prolific […]
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