Dec

12

Change is your friend

December 12, 2007 | 2 Comments

I am currently at Apple’s Innovative Technology Schools Conference at UTS, Sydney, Australia. This is the 18th year the conference has run, and my first visit, so I’m hoping to reflect on what I’ve done this year and work out ways that I can better utilise our 1:1 environment in 2008.
Today’s keynote was delivered by [...]

Dec

8

Students speak out

December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment

There has been lots of discussion about realising student participation in the edublogosphere in the past year. Driven be a belief that students “should be participating in our edublogger conversations on an equal footing, as equal partners”, Clay Burrell and others have helped students set up Student 2.0, a blog that is “administered, designed, [...]

Dec

4

Designing the future…

December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A great quote by Barry Vercoe, one of the six founding professors of the MIT MediaLab from Ewan McIntosh

How does innovation occur?
The future is not to predict but to design… Innovation comes from:

a clash of cultures
clash of disciplines
clash of ways of doing things
high tolerance of failure

In the words of Woody Allen: [...]

Dec

3

Blogs in Plain English

December 3, 2007 | 1 Comment

From Lee Lefever at Common Craft

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