Blog Profile / Artichoke
| URL : | http://artichoke.typepad.com/artichoke/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Education / Learning | |
| Posts on Regator: | 83 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.3 | |
| Archived Since: | March 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
The impact of sharing breakfast at dawn on teacher professional learning and development.
I have little experience in presenting to breakfast adventurers - so when I was invited to talk to groups of educational breakfasters, I was uncertain about what the experience would be like. I will admit I was initially anxious about...
On feed left, feed right and finding your inner chameleon …
Feedback, (and feed up and feed forward) is currently seen as “A GOOD THING” in education. Indeed Prof. John Hattie gives feedback an effect size of a formidable d=0.73 (Hattie in Visible Learning p173). Being seen as “A Good Thing”...
When you stare into the eye of a whitebait...
The invitation to present to the West Coast Principals’ Conference at Franz Josef offered many unanticipated adventures. Peering out the window of the Beechcraft 1900D on my way from Christchurch to Hokitika I marvelled at the huge up-thrusts of sheer...
What kind of assessment for learning is appropriate in the age of Google and Wikipedia? Facebook and You Tube? Smart phones and text messaging? Twitter and blogging?
Abstract: Claims for the transformative effects of e-learning on student learning outcomes imply changes in the nature of learning when learning is mediated by technology. If it can be shown that the nature of learning changes in a distinctive way...
Learning communities as cryptoforests
Wilfried Houjebek’s Cryptoforestry blog looks for “forests in cities” and for “cities in forests” – a purpose I want to adopt as I travel around different places working with schools in New Zealand. He describes cryptoforests as a “cultural and...
On limiting learning and impairing comprehension with mobile technologies
I’d guess there aren’t too many educators who are unaware of the research suggesting that using marijuana or drinking alcohol may limit learning outcomes. Using marijuana can impair short term memory and concentration and blood alcohol content (BAC) readings between...
On taking the pandas out of the NZ Curriculum
The young man with the oversized WWF panda on his jacket was not in the least surprised by my response. I didn’t know that the NZ Government had taken “wildlife” out of the curriculum. “Not many people do”, he answered...
What would Zorro do?
Sitting in the hairdresser’s chair on the last Friday of summer I refuse the black mask and flat-brimmed hat but allow myself to be reverse wrapped in Zorro’s black cape - looking at the many mirrored reflections of my fellow...
“The Master Switch”, digital citizenship, and WWIC
There has been a not so subtle shift in what is promoted as pedagogically worthy in NZ ICTPD cluster schools in the past 12 months – a shift from helping students adopt cyber-safe practice online to helping students become responsible...
On table-sharking as "real" problem solving
When Stanley was a puppy he loved to “table-shark” stuff that wasn’t his. And after sharking he would race recklessly around the house often spilling out into the garden to avoid his outraged pursuers. He is a much larger Labrador.....
Pedagogical Promiscuity and "Assessment for Learning"
What kind of “assessment for learning” is appropriate in the age of Google and Wikipedia? Facebook and You Tube? Smart phones and text messaging? Twitter and blogging? (after Manovich on Soft Cinema). In December each year futurists read the e-market-place...
Potalanoa (talking into the night) and conversational transience
I meet all sorts of educators in the day job, but my opportunities to talk with them for any length of time are limited. I am a conversational transient. A conversation started with one educator in one place is abandoned...
A Giant Romance of Primitive Life and Unfettered Love.
Whatever happened between “Me” and “You”? It was easy to understand our relationship in the beginning. It was what I like to think of as “a giant romance of primitive life and unfettered love” - a "Me Tarzan, you Jane"...
If you are someone who likes to count things …
… you will make something of the fact that the word “competition” only occurs once in the New Zealand Curriculum document. Or “Why everything you have been told about genetics, talent and IQ is wrong” Or “What students are” versus.....
Is educational research asking the wrong questions about the enacted curriculum?
I have been lost for a while, reading and re-reading Jaron Lanier’s book You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto Lanier’s book explores the unintended consequences of digital design on human culture, identity and what it is to be human...
Gawande’s Checklists: "I know what to do and why thinking".
I cannot remember a time when I haven’t been thinking and or reading about models of learning and designing for learning – it is a personal Pythonesque search for the educational holy grail – I am looking for a deeper...
Acting like a kite, witnessing the future and marshalling resources.
Asking how we identify the future – and how we bring the future into the present form a large part of current educational discourse – especially those edu_conference keynote conversations. Jensen (Witnessing the Future pdf) cites Serres and Latour and...
On Creating A Wasn’t Good, Wasn’t Bad School for Every Child.
I didn’t buy Cyril Taylor’s newly released “A Good School for Every Child – How to improve our schools” because I wanted to read another book on how to do school better. At the moment I drift towards thinking and...
“I am haunted by you” flowers and impossible cream cakes.
I had an unexpected escape from the day job today – and I used it to push off from the screen and drift into the ordinary. I used it to bump up against the stuff that had not been digitised...
“The money is always there, but the pockets change” Gertrude Stein
To allow oneself to be physically re-arranged by another is much like allowing oneself to be mentally re-arranged by another. Both require compliance and conformity, and I guess both require deference to the “power” or “expertise” of another. Physical rearrangement...