Learning is social

The rising importance and availability of social media and their popularity among young people are undeniable facts. The use of the internet is becoming an ever more integral part of young people’s lives and, as a result, they are communicating with each other on an unprecedented scale. This blog aims to challenge preconceptions regarding the use of online social media in education and to provide an alternative, more positive discourse highlighting the many benefits they can bring to education.

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In dependence

The culture in schools is one of dependence. Students need to attend school; they need to come to our lessons; they need to do as we say; and they need to pass the exams we set. Students are dependent. On us.

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The next big thing

I don’t think Glass is the next big thing. When I see Glass, I can’t help but think of Segway, another fantastic leap forward in innovation that was only ever widely adopted by shopping centre security guards, sight-seeing operators and the odd airport.

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Vantage Point

That day I took home a book on Astronomy that created the most enormous rift between what I thought I knew and what really there was to know. It put me, my life and, literally, my world in perspective and, boy, was I small.

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