The networked student and the learning landscape
Networked learners are participating in the collaborative environment of IT industry practitioners using web 2.0 tools — read-write-web, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking and audio/video-casting.
Creative Arts: Everyone’s business in the twenty-first century
Creative Arts: Everyone’s business in the twenty-first century Despite the fact that business and industry now champion the word creative, and are adopting the rhetoric of creativity as a key principal of desired practice in their domains, this movement has yet to feed back into the design of twenty-first century school curricula. Indeed, the potentially powerful and integral role of the Arts as a key node in school curricula continues to be, for the most part, diluted or worse, ignored.
Education: A climate change?
A recent Australian Education Forum raised compelling issues about future demographics and economic imperatives; explained how parents paying school fees ultimately save tax-payers money and focused concern on the reduced pool of suitably qualified and dedicated teachers as well as potential school leaders.