Map of education innovation
In his TED talk on education innovation, Charles Leadbeater introduces a map of the territory based on two axes: sustaining/disruptive and formal/informal. He argues that most of our resources are...
View ArticlePerceptive pixels
Some notes on a fancy multitouchscreen that is crying out for some rich Australian content... Continue reading →
View ArticleA grand design for active digital learning
An off-cuff share about the digital learning facility work-in-progress that is UC's InSPIRE centre, directed by Prof Rob Fitzgerald and site managed by Jonno – thanks for the tour, people. Continue...
View ArticleSembl praxis: identify sameness, explore difference
Seeking to identify sameness between disparate objects, we attend to their difference – and maybe even open space for reconciliation. In this post I tease out some of the conceptual and cognitive...
View ArticleDialogic learning in museum space
How can museum exhibitions be dialogic – how can they engage visitors in history but also in its making? A recent re-publication of an article I wrote 10 years ago inspires me to revisit questions that...
View ArticleCreate[d] World
A few thoughts from the recent Create World conference of clever, creative people... Continue reading →
View ArticleAugmented reality for teaching and learning
I brought home a few thought-thread treasures from today's ARcamp on augmented reality and education. So, I'm sharing: 1. Magic / technology 2. Unconventional unease 3. How can AR be dialogic? 4....
View ArticleModelling digital work
As patron for the Go Girl expo for girls in Years 8 to 11, Tammy Butow is compiling a video to present at the event. Her plan is to open girls’ minds to the field of possibility of technology-related...
View ArticleStereographic suffragettes
With hat-tips to the New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator and Australian suffragettes including Vida Goldstein and the prime minister’s wife, Margaret Fisher, I animated a stereographic...
View ArticleDear Wellington, let’s make some babies
Ah, Wellington, where a barista serves coffee to a cashless newcomer with “just pay us later”, op shops have natural-fibre clothes to fit women of long length, and an annual conference exemplifies and...
View ArticleVideo introduction to Sembl
What is Sembl and why should you care? This video answers those questions, and proclaims my committment to and aptitude for this project.Filed under: Authority, Beauty, Design, Humanity, Ingenuity,...
View ArticleMy DO dialogue
Last week I drove into the gorgeous (if cold!) Victorian high country to attend the inaugural Australian Do Lectures at the very lovely Payne’s Hut. OMG interesting people! As well as enjoying the...
View ArticleIn this new digital age, the future is analogue
How can an 80-year-old institution persistently drive cultural innovation? It’s an interesting question, and one that Glenn Lowry, longtime director of the Museum of Modern Art, addressed in his recent...
View ArticleMuseums and the playful web – a revolution in sensemaking
Museums are former agents of hegemony; let's make them double-agents of reconciliation. Continue reading →
View ArticlePeople of purpose
Thanks to a conference for purpose-driven business people, I grew a little bit this week. Continue reading →
View ArticleA cooler cat
In the course of trying to become a cooler cat myself (via FreeCodeCamp), I made a tribute webpage: I thought it’d work to embed it here but nope. If you’re keen you can see this cool cat on CodePen....
View ArticleMade an infographic for colleagues
Filed under: Design, Picturing Tagged: learning, museum, visual thinking
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