Block out the noise and focus! Magic will happen
There are a lot of distractions today. Do this, help that, think this, be that, there are an endless number of demands on us and we cannot do it all. The problem for many, is because of noise, they do nothing! Mark Drewelow of C2C has managed to block out the noise, focus, and in [...]
The app revolution.
Who doesn’t use the word app at least once a week? We all do! The fact that the app is becoming a new part of our life is an exciting new frontier for education. On one hand the app might be the way to take what we do in the classroom to a whole new [...]
Audiences are like (they are) our students.
As a media educator I spend a lot of time pondering 3 things. 1. how do we get the next generation of media professionals trained for an unknown environment 2. what is happening to the old media 3. how do we engage the audience I was happy to read in Forbes.com that I am not [...]
What if the way we educate is all wrong?
Last night I had a conversation with Sheena Reynolds, an occupational therapist, who with her husband has designed a school The British Institute for Learning Development to fix the wrongs of the traditional education process. And it seems to work! Education Re-Boot with Sheena Reynolds Nightline a Conversation
Into the unknown with technology!
On almost a daily basis I meet students who ask the age old question, “why do we need to learn this anyway?” The simple answer is we go to school to learn how to act on our curiosity. We are all curious right? School provides a means to shape that curiosity, and if the student [...]
Hold on tight to your passion
Have you been following the99.org? Last night I had a chance to catch up with Dr. Naif, he did an amazing talk at TEDxDubai, and as usual was amazed! The message from Dr. Naif is simple, follow your passion and hold onto what you believe with both hands. Have a listen to the conversation. Dr. [...]
Media Education for yesterday not tomorrow!
I am a very lucky academic in that I am today teaching in a program at Zayed University that has thrown out what we are doing and totally reinvented not only what bit how we will teach. The what we will teach was the easy part, the how is still to come. The big words [...]
A little food radio?
I cannot stop listening and watching the Jamie Oliver TEDPrize speech. All I keep asking is what can I do? Sadly, as Oliver says in his opening sentence, I am not so sure people know where to start or if they can see where how! For 3 months I have been saying, “there must be [...]
Action Part 2…
Hugh MacLeod And what Godin writes MacLeod draws!
Action!
Have an idea? Tell a few people? I am not an advocate of keeping secrets or locking away ideas, in fact, I love to share them. But idea guy beware, this is a message to myself, if you tell other people your ideas be ready for them to act on them and not give you [...]
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