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How transperent do we want our education? Bring on the curious public!

By the very nature of going to a school, 4 walls to separate the students from the curious, and then rooms to further separate the spectators from the curious, we have bought into an idea of education that promotes elitism and anything but transparency!
Teachers go behind closed doors and deliver classes to a small special [...]

Do we need more social connections in the classroom.

I am wrestling with the use of technology in my university classes.
To be very honest the use of new communication technology excites me!
I love the way Twitter, #jamesed_me, allows me to communicate links, materials and ideas to my students.
Facebook creates another forum for interaction, especially if the group is protected.
Livestream allows me to actually film [...]

Branding for Women

For the last few years I have been very interested in how we brand ideas and concepts for the different segments of the population.
The mud on the wall method of delivering content, if some sticks it is ok approach, is simply not good enough.
Again and again I return to Michele Miller and Wonder Branding.
www.wonderbranding.com is [...]

Just got back my time!

For years my wife has been telling me that we are in the middle of one of the greatest con-jobs ever, time theft!
I am sure you are repeating those words, time theft and wondering what can I be talking about.
Well, if you are anything like me you spend a bit of time on the email. [...]

The new world of work

THE 2009 DALTON CAMP LECTURE IN JOURNALISM
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One of the toughest parts of working in education is knowing that you are teaching a group of students of which some will go into careers that at this exact moment do not exist.
So, the question has to be, am I giving them the skills they need?
Unfortunately, [...]

apps are the future.

The 4th screen (your mobile/cellular phone) holds the key to your information world.
And are we teaching app creation, management, imagination in our schools?
I suspect many teachers/professors have only a passing knowledge about apps given that they are not using phones that easily take on board advanced applications.
My advice to students, anyone really, don’t wait for [...]

Why we fail?

One of our greatest problems today is the silo culture of education.
Business schools do not talk to design schools who do not talk to education schools who do not talk to IT schools and nobody is talking to the cooking schools.
Well, if the core elements of our education system are not relating to each other [...]

Think Niche

You want to know what our problem is?
We collectively think too much about the big picture and the latest and greatest technology FAILING to realize that we live, work and breath the small picture and that most of us are using old tech (over a year old) to do most everything!
Want to succeed?
1. look around, [...]

It is a PREZI world now

How many of you have gone from an overhead projector to PowerPoint, maybe Keynote, and are now feeling pretty comfortable?
Most of us have been using some variation of the slide projector/asetate presentation format all our lives.
But you know what? We now live  in a whiteboard era. Can you imagine using a chalkboard?
Yet we still use [...]

What is in an experience?

We are living in an era where we believe that things such as look, process, action, and activity need to be updated in order to be better.
I wonder if we haven’t gotten it all wrong?
I was at the Dubai Fish Market on the 24th of December and the 1st thought that went through my mind [...]

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JamesEd is very simply about learning from the experiences we observe or are part of on a daily basis. JamesEd is a living toolbox to help understand and deal with the world we live in.

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