Leading and learning at the 2015 LEGO Education/Tufts CEEO Conference, California
MacICT’s lead robotics facilitator, John Burfoot, was invited to attend the LEGO Education...
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Making Learning Irresistible
Early this morning, I had the opportunity to join Katie Salen, Randall Fujimoto, Vanessa...
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Tips on Smart Gamification
Gamification is a buzz word that is increasingly used in educational contexts and is often a hot...
Read MoreProblem Based Learning – An Instructional Model and its Constructivist Framework
Image via Wikipedia Savery and Duffy in their 2001 paper Understanding is in our interactions with the environment. Cognitive conflict or puzzlement is the stimulus for learning and determines the organisation and nature of what...
Read MoreThe child-driven education
The role for teachers is to display genuine interest and curiosity in what the students are...
Read More21st Century Skill Development
Image via Wikipedia When I work with students on the ‘Students as Learning Designers’ project we work together on a continuum of participation. Sometime the students creating things that just ask each other...
Read MoreInteractive Video with Google and The Arcade Fire – The Wilderness Downtown
Image by nikko russano* via Flickr The Wilderness Downtown an interactive video by the Arcade Fire and Google is why we are teaching kids to develop interactive things. Because they WILL be designers of interaction in the...
Read MoreDesigning with gifted and talented students
Image via Wikipedia Today I attended the Northern Sydney Region Gifted and Talented Conference at Miramare Gardens. Such passionate educators took the stage it was hard not to get inspired. Dail McGilchrist talked about working...
Read MoreThe art of choosing
What kinds of choices do you get your learners to make?Why do they need the choice? [vodpod...
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