The Future of Technology in Education – The Big Switch
Technology adoption often starts with big, rare and expensive institutional models that technologise existing practice – this is particularly the case with Information technology and has been the case...
View ArticleEducation and technology – doing the Monster Mash
Education and technology are necessary partners but the relationship can be far from comfortable or functional. Technologists often have an almost obsessive addiction about “the next big thing” and a...
View ArticleEducation: What technology wants
Suppliers and institutions may want technology to enable a control, expensive rarity model with proprietary and protected features. People may want technology to enable freedom and choice with a cheap...
View ArticleThe Purpose of Education
A major purpose of our education system is (has become) the testing and grading of people for social economic function – for work, for more education or …… Education has been very successful in meeting...
View ArticleEducated Learning: A Martian’s Guide To Our Education System
Educated learning is the type of learning which takes place within our education system. Educated learning is Utilitarian: Educated learning generally takes place through necessity. The state requires...
View ArticleUneducated learning: A Martian’s Guide Learning Without Our Education System
Uneducated learning is the type of learning which takes place without our education system.Uneducated learning is Unattended Uneducated learning can take place almost anywhere the learner is able to...
View ArticleA Future of Education
The Education system as we know it today has been shaped by the forces of the last 150 years – it is very much a product of the industrial revolution and the industrial age. Education, like...
View ArticleEducation: How to Look Good Naked
Education in its Suite of Armour One response to anything new is to attempt to assimilate it – to fit it into existing models. While it could be argued that Education has attention blindness to...
View ArticleThree Horizons, Steve Jobs and Education
“The three horizons model was first published in The Alchemy of Growth by Merhdad Baghai, Stephen Coley, and David White in 1999. The fundamental idea behind the model is that we need to be thinking...
View ArticleThe Harlem Shake: The Network Event horizon
The Harlem Shake signals a new era and a new type of “mass” production Traditional “modern” economics, culture, media and identity have been shaped and expressed within a framework of industrialisal...
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