Radio National’s Hindsight had an excellent program this week. Inga Clendinnen, Paul Thompson, Peter Read, Heather Goodall, Sean Field and Bonnie Smith took part in the program (podcast here) titled The Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting. I thought the program explored very effectively the relationships between history and memory. I liked in particular the discussion [...]
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Eyewitnesses, Memory and Oral History
Posted in Coaching, Communication, Ethnography, tagged Eyewitness, Hindsight, memory, Oral History, Radio National on 27 January, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Playing, Building, Flourishing
Posted in Communication, Digital Media, Education, Instructional Design, Play, Teaching and Learning, tagged Antony Funnell, Daniel Donahoo, Future Tense, Ian Schulte, ICare4Autism, Latitude Research, Lego Learning Institute, Lego Mindstorms, Makerspaces, Play, Radio National, RiAus, Robots in School, UCNISS on 15 December, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I listened to Radio National’s Future Tense program this morning. By good fortune I heard Daniel Donahoo talk about the Robots in School project. I was fascinated by Daniel’s conversation with Antony Funnell on Future Tense. I followed up some links to the project and read a description that resonated very strongly with me: The [...]
Cirrus 111208
Posted in Communication, Digital Media, Teaching and Learning, tagged ABC666, Andrew Preater, canberra lab, Claire Ritchie, Counterpoint, Emma Marris, Ethnography, Gwyneth Jones, Human Capital, Joyce Valenza, Leeks, Nicholas Gruen, Phillipe Blanchard, Radio National, Stephen Downes, The Rambunctious Garden, TL Virtual Cafe, UCNISS on 8 December, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week I found links to: The TL Virtual Cafe’s Open Mic with Joyce Valenza that attracted 138 participants. Gwyneth Jones was the moderator. Andrew Preater‘s discussion of ethnographies of next-gen catalogue users. Phillipe Blanchard’s discussion of shared goals for sport. I expect current sport industry leaders to engage in attempts to master all kinds [...]
Reading John Dickson: Humility and Leadership
Posted in Communication, Leadership, tagged Close to Home, Humility, John Dickson, Leadership, Radio National, Richard Aedy, Trust, UCNISS on 28 November, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A few weeks ago my daughter Beth alerted me to a Radio National program she had heard. Richard Aedy interviewed John Dickson on Life Matters. I followed Beth’s advice to listen to their discussion of humility. As a result I bought John Dickson‘s book Humiltas. The subtitle to the book is A Lost Key to [...]
Direct Instruction, Personal Learning and Expert Pedagogues
Posted in Australia, Education, Teaching and Learning, tagged Big Ideas, Brian Yap, Cape York, Direct Instruction, Errorless Learning, Expert Pedagogue, Faultless Communication, Noel Pearson, performances of understanding, Radical Hope, Radio National, Siegfried Engelmann, UCNISS on 8 November, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There was a reprint published last month of Noel Pearson’s 2009 Quarterly Essay Radical Hope: Education and Equality in Australia. In the essay Noel observes that: In Australia, there seems to be a contradiction at the heart of our commitment to public education. On the one hand, educators are briefed with the task of enabling [...]
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