I have been scratching my head to see why the term Edupunk raises vague and irrational feelings of irritation and suspicion in me. I love the philosophy of bricolage, workarounds and experimentation that it seems to encompass. After all the ‘poster boy’ for Edupunk, Jim Groom, has been blogging his experiments and thoughts on BuddyPress [...]
Learning to love the term Edupunk
April 8th, 2009 · 8 Comments
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Special Issue of ALT-J - Learning and Teaching in IVWs
January 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments
I have been very excited to see the publication of the electronic and print version of the ALT-J Special Issue - Learning and Teaching in Immersive Virtual Worlds. I think that it is a great resource for anyone working in this area, but I may be biased by the fact that it’s the first issue [...]
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Education in an ‘Open’ future
November 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments
How can education change in a connected world?
This blog post was in answer to a question on the CCK08 forum, but I enjoyed writing it so much, I thought that I would post it here as well.
Illich identified three purposes of a good education system:
“it should provide all who want to learn with access [...]
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