Open Education Resources & Practice
I'm working on a project with a colleague from UQ and two others here at USQ to explore how we can open up practice and resources within and across institutions. We are each working on courses that address the Australian Curriculum: Technologies alone or in concert with The Arts. I’m feeling just a bit guilty that I’m once again late to the party. I had good intentions yesterday but … In no particular order here are some thoughts from our discussions on Wednesday and Thursday that might have some bearing on our project and writing. Institutional takeup of OER/OEP Despite rhetoric and
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SITE 2016 – Savannah, Georgia, 21–25 March
I attended SITE 2016 with financial support from the Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts. I’m grateful for that support and for the patience of students in my classes who experienced slower than usual responses to queries via email and the LMS. While at SITE I was involved in four presentations and a couple of organisational meetings as well as informal interactions with colleagues from around the world.
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Coding & photos - vacation rumination
Coding has become a hot topic in educational circles. In a previous post - The second coming of coding: Will it bring rapture or rejection? - I responded to some comments posted by Bron Stuckey and concluded that a key challenge would be the limited experience that most teachers, and students preparing to be teachers, have of coding in any form. In my view it will not be sufficient to provide teachers with some basic instruction in coding and resources for teaching it. They will need to have experiences that make the usefulness of coding in daily life apparent if they are
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Teachers, design and technology
David Jones (@djplaner) posted a piece, Teachers as designers of technology enhanced learning?, earlier today. Although he didn’t identify us, I am one of the colleagues he referred to in his introduction and I was tagged in his tweet about the post. I’ve been doing some reading of my own, intending to write with David and elsewhere, and felt a need to comment as I read his piece. Eventually the somewhat random thoughts I had amounted to more than a simple comment or two so here I am. David commented on Kirschner’s (2015) observation that Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) is
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The second coming of coding: Will it bring rapture or rejection?
Coding, aka computer programming, made it into the headlines earlier this year when Federal Opposition Leader, Bill Shorten, asked Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, whether he would “support coding being taught in every primary and secondary school.” The Prime Minister initially derided the idea with a comment about kids going to work as coders at age 11 but later confirmed that the Government was already supporting the concept in the national curriculum. Those of us who have been around schools for long enough will recognise this as at least the second coming of coding in the classroom. It was there when
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