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Excerpt: I prefer film, edited and unedited, these days, as a medium of communication. When this post comes out there will also be a link to a live streamed debate at the bottom of the page to The Really Free School in Bloomsbury, London on 10th February 2011 where the conversation will continue in other forms. What is the purpose of education? Keri (Facer) asks in the first post of this purpos/ed project: What is the Good Life? (she actually talks about Society but I interpret it like this). What is your vision for the Good Life and how can education help in that…
L4L TV Comes of Age
January 17, 2011
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Excerpt: I have filmed so many conversations at BETT2011 that I have decided to put up a dedicated TV channel to the content. Of course there is so much content it will take me weeks to get it out. So I have decided to devote an area of this site to the films and live video feeds as they happen over the year. I do so many of them now I feel all those marvellous conversations would be wasted if there wasn’t a smart way to put the information up in manageable packets. So here’s a quick preview of the service I’m going…
Why are we still arguing over Gaming in Education?
March 3, 2010
in Continual Professional Development, Curriculum, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, Games based learning, Handheld Learning, informal learning, Innovation, Learning Content, Mediated Reality, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning
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[/caption] When I was little (between 5 and 10 years old) I grew up in the early-sixties, post second world war era London of bombsites and grey realities. Like most boys my age at that time, I watched an endless succession of Brits Vs Germans war films at the saturday cinema club, on (the newly acquired) TV and bought things like the Commando Comic – which was every bit as gruesome as anything you’ll find today in Call of Duty : I used to have endless cap gun fights with my friends in the streets….
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