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Excerpt: This year I overhead a comment to this effect – “Looking around on the stands and at Open Source, TeachMeet etc. it seems people are being regarded far less as the ‘lunatic fringe’ and becoming more accepted.” I often think that when you talk about new ideas and concepts applied to education, many people look at you with the same disdain they might display on finding out that you have told them their favourite uncle is a cross-dresser. “Yes dear – we know they do it but we don’t talk about that…” That a similar attitude seems to persist for TeachMeet seems obvious…
What next for BETT and TeachMeet – beyond the lunatic fringe – why so serious?
January 17, 2010
in advisory, BECTA, BETT 2010, Continual Professional Development, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, informal learning, mediascapes, Mediated Reality, open source, Peer to Peer, teachmeet, twitter, Web 2.0
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MirandaNet and MirandaMod
February 3, 2009
in advisory, art, BECTA, BSF, Continual Professional Development, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation, NAACE, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, podcasting, training, vblog, video, video streaming
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Excerpt: BETT 2009 Continued
@eyebeams and @theokk working hard at MirandaMod – cough…
[/caption] (photo attribution @theokk) Live Streaming and videos from BETT MirandaMod seminars Another major part of my activity at BETT was the live streaming and filming of a series of MirandaMod discussions going on throughout the exhibition, culminating in the seminar below given by Dr John Cuthell of MirandaNet and Norbert Pacheler of the IoE. I have chosen to show the seminar first because all the discussions during the show follow on from that research. It gives an excellent context for the debate. Terry Freedman also did an excellent job of…
Teachers are Heroes just for one day – Open Source Schools @ BETT 2009 – Why you must use Open Source Software
January 21, 2009
in advisory, BECTA, Continual Professional Development, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, hosting, informal learning, Innovation, IT support, LA, Moodle, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, podcasting, training
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Excerpt: Open Source Schools
Open Source Schools – BETT Seminar January 19th 2009
[/caption] Every once in a while you see something that makes you think: ‘Yes this really is going to change education in this country’ and it makes you smile inside because you know what is going to happen further down the line and how revolutionary it will be; it will touch the lives of so many people and transform learning – making it more effective, more engaging, more personal and build a sense of community far beyond the initial event itself. Pivotal Moments One such moment was on the…
Outside the Wire – What lies ahead – Possible solutions and pointers? Making the map…
December 30, 2008
in advisory, AST, BECTA, BSF, Continual Professional Development, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, QCA, TDA, training, video, Web 2.0
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Excerpt: Image attribution to Bill Gracey on Flickr under this CC Licence ‘The revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools, it happens when society adopts new behaviours’ Clay Shirkey That pithy sentence uttered in the new UsNow film couldn’t be more true, especially in the world of innovation in education that this blog constantly addresses. So far this year I have been pulling focus on informal learning outside the wire of traditional institutions – in 2009 I am going to be more concerned with looking at the research and opinion that surrounds this arena and focus on highlighting and amplifying ideas and practice…
