#BeyondConferences – A Model for Multi-school Collaboration
I’ve had the privilege to attend four tech conferences this school year: Learning2.0, TechEx, 21CLHK, and most recently, #BeyondLaptops in Yokohama. They are reliably inspiring yet simultaneously frustrating. On one hand, it is always great to get together with likeminded people to share ideas, affirm our hard work, and get some answers. On the other hand, the Déjà vu gets old, and I feel guilty about the money my school spends to send me to another country just so I can have the same conversations I’ve been having for the last 10 years. In a way it’s a bit like a...
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An object at rest will stay at rest unless an unbalanced force acts upon it. Throughout history, opportunities for change have arisen from times of crisis. New leaders emerge and people consider new ideas that had been, up until recently, quite unpalatable. Remembering what the road of good intentions is paved with, the more cautious among us may be hesitant to step forward during such times, but we must remember that with or without our input, the problem will have some sort of solution – why not be a part of it? We’ve all had a nagging desire to improve something but we...
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Search Google for “ed-tech” and you’ll get three million hits. What’s one more self-promoter on a blog-sized soapbox? It’s still profound to talk about revolution and the unknown jobs of the future – right? Yes, I’ve got some of that in me, but there are already enough tech-evangelists in the echo-chamber, so this blog aims to take a step back and examine some of the more concerning trends in ed-tech. What interests me in particular is the popular implication that everything we used to think about education no-longer applies. Far from being unique...
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