Image: ‘Army Guard Father, Son Fly Together‘ on Flickr here Moving forward with new technologies in education is a main focus of all schools now. Or it should be. As with everything, leaping in blindly is not the best way to go. It’s always prudent to keep thinking and then think some more throughout this [...]
Archive for September, 2010
New technologies initiatives: questions to ask (Chris Lehmann)
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What do you know about vodka and Matryosha dolls?
Posted in 21st century learning, language, tagged culture, experts, history, language, Nottingham, origin, university, videos, words on September 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The origin of words and the culture and history behind them are fascinating. Jenny Luca sent me to the Words of the World website today and I’ve been having fun learning about my Russian cultural background. From Nazi to Chocolate, words play a vital role in our lives. And each word has its own story. [...]
Are schooling and learning synonymous?
Posted in Education, tagged Education, learning, principals, schooling, students, teachers on September 13, 2010 | 58 Comments »
I’m adding a post about a post added by Will Richardson who added a post after he read a tweet by Alec Couros. Yeah. Will starts out like this: Yesterday, Alec Couros went “Back to School” to “Meet the Teacher” of his first grade daughter. Here is what he saw: Photo by Alec Couros (from Weblogg-ed) [...]
TinEye – a revolutionary image search engine
Posted in 21st century learning, Web 2.0, tagged art, image, mashups, resolution, search engine, tineye, Web 2.0 on September 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There’s no doubt about it, TinEye is a great find for image use: TinEye is a reverse image search engine. It finds out where an image came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or if there is a higher resolution version. TinEye claims to be responsible for ‘changing [...]
Fantastic Voyage
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This has been cross-posted from Fiction is like a box of chocolates. Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby. Isaac Asimov was approached by Bantam Books to write a novel based on the screenplay. It’s often incorrectly assumed, because the book came out [...]
The world needs all kinds of minds
Posted in Interesting, TED, tagged Aspergers Syndrome, autism, brain, different, talk, TED, Temple Grandin on September 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I agree with Temple Grandin, the world needs all kinds of minds. We should stop celebrating normal and worrying endlessly about what doesn’t fit within that normal. Temple’s ability to verbalise her own autism has broadened our understanding of what it means to be autistic. Instead of looking at autism in terms of what is [...]
Art is…
Posted in art, tagged art, conceptual, exhibition, form, fortyfivedownstairs, James Yuncken, Lena Torikov, Subtractions on September 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My sister has worked for 3 years on a body of work – almost every Saturday afternoon and one day a week – which is currently being exhibited at fortyfivedownstairs. I admire my sister’s talent, dedication and intelligence as an artist. She has what I have described in my previous post a positive obsession, an [...]





