tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63232232008-07-28T23:38:33.506+10:00Well it's all changing. I don't know, random ephemera I guess.Scotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14724768303901981521noreply@blogger.comBlogger272125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6323223.post-4980692029307657432008-04-17T13:06:00.002+10:002008-04-17T13:07:51.700+10:00

yep, i'm still around. i'm trying to finish my phd, get it out of my life and move on. bear with me. i'll be back in the near future. i'm sure no one is listening anymore anyway. until then, then

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Loud and clear arts project

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Rising star, Danah Boyd (note the first named URL! 'danah.org' - now that says something like 'KMA, Mimi Ito is my advisor' lol), on social networking and class. Boyd believes richies use facebook and the rest of us use myspace. But of course ... this reminds me of something Pippa Norris has written (who I think I have quoted on this blog previously - but here is is again),Even if the basic

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Video from seminar at CCI - Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

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Some responses to Graeme Turner's piece in The Australian last week ("Another way of looking at it", HES, May 30). One from Dr Donnelly, Learn from our mistakes, which is actually quite measured compared to his usual huff and puff. He doesn't miss the opportunity for some self-promotion though: "ALTHOUGH I am not mentioned by name, it is obvious that Graeme Turner's reference ("Another way of

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Is it just me, or does Graeme Turner sound a little like a leftist, more reasonable (and repentant) thinking man's Kevin Donnelly? A case of arriving at the same end point but from a different direction? A kind of liberal humanism that is hard to argue against. Seems to happen to many old lefties? To be fair (to colleagues in Qld and those in other parts of Australia) the use of critical

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Bazza Jones on the state of Australian and Victorian Education. Sums up the state department like this: The Victorian Department of Education and Training is strong in management and weak in strategic thinking, creativity or imagination. It has failed to address major problems in Victorian education.He also gives an interesting definition of education: "Education is a combination of processes,

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More from Catherine Deveny on public schools.

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Catherine Deveny's thoughts, in response to Shane Maloney's gutsy straight talk to the nobs and toffs at Scotch.

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Exciting news. A special issue of Language and Education has just been published: Young people's engagement with digital literacies in marginal contexts in a globalised world'. To all my colleagues, congratulations. It's a great, stimulating read. Sue and I have a paper in this issue called: Negotiating digital literacy practices across school and home: Case studies of young people in

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Been reading some classic Neil Postman stuff. This is from a speech given in 1990: The computer and its information cannot answer any of the fundamental questions we need to address to make our lives more meaningful and humane. The computer cannot provide an organizing moral framework. It cannot tell us what questions are worth asking. It cannot provide a means of understanding why we are here

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It seems that teachers are all maoist, pinko, tree-hugging sleepers with a bent for software piracy. Seriously though, this kind of deliberate attempt at bringing down the bill and melinda gates foundation can only end in tears for all of us. I denounce this senseless act of decency.

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Sick, seedy stuff on SL. Reminds me of something Pippa Norris says in her book Digital Divide: Civic engagement, information poverty, and the internet worldwide (CUP). Not the divide stuff, the key point about internet as 'real world' mirror, utopia or something else? ‘Even if the basic digital divide shrinks gradually over time, it is naive to believe that the virtual world can overturn

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About 90 per cent of US children under age 2 and as many as 40 per cent of infants under three months are regular watchers of television, DVDs and videos, researchers said on Monday. They said the number of young kids watching TV was much greater than expected. "We don't know from the study whether it is good or bad. What we know is that it is big," said Frederick Zimmerman of the University of

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student's get some much needed payback? Have those teachers who are complaining about websites such as ratemyteachers forgotten that they are in the business of passing partial, half-formed, and powerful ratings on their students? This whole beat up is a good example of how many 'grown ups' just don't get (understand) how young people interact with each other and new media. Robert Marley sang

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Teacher blogging stuff from the Guardian (UK)

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um?

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umm ... duh! see also Andrews, Richard. (ed.) (2004) The impact of ICT on literacy education. London: RoutledgeFalmer. This book is basically a collection of the studies listed below. If you don't want to buy the book, get the reports online at the EPPI centre. Burn, Andrew, and Leach, J. (2004) A systematic review of the impact of ICT on the learning of literacies associated with moving

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My sister was married today. A good day. It's been a stressful couple of weeks for all of us. All the best Hol.

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A study conducted by Australian Telco, AAPT, has investigated a range of parental attitudes towards young people's use of technologies. 1000 parents were 'surveyed'.About 40 per cent of Australian parents believe their children's fixation with technology is robbing the family of precious face-to-face time, a study has found. The research by telco AAPT has revealed that 16 to 20-year-olds spend

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Some important questions Minister Julie Bishop has yet to answer on teacher performance pay.

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Glyn Davis is vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne. This is an edited extract of his speech to the Australia Day breakfast at Parliament House, Melbourne. Thanks, Professor Davis. AUSTRALIA Day is an invitation to celebrate heroes — those extraordinary people who together made possible our large and successful society. I come to praise a group of unlikely candidates who get little

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This is by Mercurius Goldstein (what's in a name ... right!) posted over at Larvatus Prodeo. Keep it coming MG. Mercurius says: Well, here’s my review of “Dumbing Down”. Actually it’s a review I wrote for Dr D’s last book, but I’ve since found you can use to review everything he’s ever written. It’s a kind of meta-review. HOW TO BE AN EDUCATION EXPERT You too can enjoy the public acclaim and

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Danah Boyd is part of Mimi Ito's (yes and a whole bunch of others) Informal Learning project and here writes about relationships and myspace. I'm sure I have some data on this as well.

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