Have you read Leon Benade’s NZARE blog post More than bricks and mortar: A critical examination of school property under the National-led Government? His post explored some of the current government policy ideas about school property and the design of …
Digital Deceptions?
Ben Williamson’s constructive and justifiably irate article ‘Coding for What?’posted in the MirandaNet Blog doubtless resonates with many former ICT teachers in England. His description captures how it seemed to many observers and participants: a frantic, ideologically driven, and peremptory …
Coding for what? Lessons from computing in the curriculum
Faculty of Social Science, University of Stirling This article was first published in the 2017 summer edition of the Naace Advancing Education Journal edited by Christina Preston. You can find out about Naace here. www.naace.co.uk Summary The subject of …
Collaborative lifelong learning for teacher educators across cultural boundaries
Christina Preston, Founder MirandaNet Fellowship Sarah Younie, MirandaNet Fellowship, Institute for Education Futures, University of De Montfort Bozena Mannova, MirandaNet Fellowship, Prague Technical University. Since the 1990s the authors of this paper have been sharing their professional knowledge about the …
Leading change to future-focused learning involving everyone
Leading change to future-focused learning involving everyone Niki Davis1 and Cathy Lewin2 1University of Canterbury e-Learning Lab, Aotearoa New Zealand, niki.davis@canterbury.ac.nz 2Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom, c.lewin@mmu.ac.uk Future-focused learning concerns the evolution of educational systems …
Can online learning substitute for the human interface?
Last week at the Future EdTech conference in London I was invited onto a panel sharing views about open learning in higher education. I was drawing on MirandaNet Fellowship experiences of online learning since 1999 when MirandaNet started working with …
Graduating from Picademy
Picademy was some of the best CPD I have ever attended, with its emphasis on immersive learning through play, and on celebrating successes but accepting failures as learning opportunities too. It was fantastic to spend two days with a bunch …
Online safety and digital literacy: how do they feature in schools?
Christina Preston and I are writing a report for the UK DfE on the teaching of digital literacy and, more widely, how to stay safe online in our schools. We think these topics might be slipping through cracks in the …