Am I superficial if I have a weakness for book covers? I love the art/graphic design enveloping the story. Yes, I will choose a book by its cover. Yes, I buy magazines for their visual beauty. So, feast your eyes on Penguin UK’s gallery of science fiction book covers. Particularly pleasing is the real art [...]
Archive for April, 2009
A Sci-Fi feast for the eyes
Posted in art, Literature, tagged art, book covers, Design, Ernst, images, Kandinsky, Klee, Literature, Miro, Penguin Books, science fiction on April 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We want dot-points
Posted in Education, learning, teaching, tagged Academia, assessment, Education, independent learning, internationalplp21, learning, teaching, thinking, university on April 25, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Thanks to cogdogblog for the photo. My older son has started university this year. His core subjects are Psychology and Politics, and Logic is one of his breadth subjects. Today he was telling me that some of the students in one of his Psychology classes were complaining about a particular lecturer. They thought he was too [...]
Teaching – what’s it all about?
Posted in 21st century learning, Education, teachers, teaching, tagged affective, Blooms, citizenship, internationalplp21, learning, taxonomy, teaching, values on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been reflecting about teaching – you know, the existential part – what’s it all about, what are our essential aims as teachers, how do we connect to students individually and as a group to engage and stimulate meaningful and creative learning? The usual. Often I think about how I learn. I imagine myself [...]
Vision of the future – Are you ready?
Posted in 21st century learning, Education, tagged Education, future, nanotechnology, technology on April 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Have you given nanotechnology any serious thought? Have a look at this video by Karsten Staack, The 21st Century: What will it look like? What are your thoughts? Are you excited/afraid of the future? Don’t be. It’s not for you, it’s for the next generation.
Google image search on the fly
Posted in 21st century learning, internet, technology, tagged google, Google image search, image, improvement, search on April 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Google’s new experimental Similar Images feature in Google Labs has improved image searching with the addition of ‘similar images’, allowing you to narrow your search and change your mind on the fly. Have a look here. It’s in its experimental stages. I searched ‘school’ and, predictably, got all types of ‘school’ images. What I specifically [...]
TED talks wiki
Posted in 21st century learning, tagged 21st century learning, experts, presentations, speakers, talks, TED, videos on April 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
If you enjoy TED talks on video, feast your eyes on the TED talks wiki, which is like a cornucopia of TED, an overabundance of these tantalising talks. Getting through these all might take you – lets see, say about …. a year! The talks are searchable by speaker, or you can search by first [...]
Teaching 21st century literacies
Posted in 21st century learning, Education, internet, network literacy, teaching, technology, Web 2.0, tagged 21st century learning, critical thinking, digital literacies, digital literacy, Education, Facebook, Howard Rheingold, internationalplp21, network literacy, Web 2.0, youtube on April 12, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Howard Rheingold has written an article for City Brights on 21st century literacies. His opening paragraph asks essential questions for the future (and present) of education: Will our grandchildren century grow up knowing how to pluck the answer to any question out of the air, summon their social networks to assist them personally or professionally, organize [...]
Stephen Downes in Melbourne
Posted in 21st century learning, learning, network literacy, teachers, teaching, technology, Web 2.0, tagged internationalplp21, knowledge, learning, learning network, Stephen Downes, Web 2.0 on April 6, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Why did I go to a professional event on the first day of my Easter holidays? Two words: Stephen Downes. Stephen started by prompting reflection: Reflect on how you learn in your job today? How do you learn to use new technology and keep up with events and announcements? How do you learn new policies [...]
Student bloggers speak out eloquently
Posted in 21st century learning, blogging, Education, learning, technology, Web 2.0, writing, tagged bloggers, blogs, Education, higher order thinking, internationalplp21, learing, passion, writing on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On the blog Free resources from the net for special education Paul Hamilton has written a very interesting post sharing his views on student blogging in Jan Smith’s grade 6 class, and a video where he interviews his students about their blogging. If you have any doubts about the value of student blogging, then watch this [...]
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. -
Flickr Photos
More Photos -
Recent Comments
- tsheko on Getting ready for iPad rollout at school – exploring apps and thinking about Apple’s new iBooks Author
- sinikka on Getting ready for iPad rollout at school – exploring apps and thinking about Apple’s new iBooks Author
- tsheko on Looking back through 2011
- jennylu on Looking back through 2011
- Merry Christmas! « Melbourne High School Library on Christmas carols wordle quiz
ClustrMap
Archives
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
