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Talk, listen and wonder was it worth it, UAE conversations

What is the price of an opinion?
Mishaal Al Gergawi has come on my radio show and spends his day at the Dubai Cultural Authority, he is a switched on Emirati no doubt.
It is always interesting to read what a young Emirati has to say about Dubai, here is his article from the Gulf News.

Dubai’s unwritten [...]

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, [...]

New Year’s Day, What I Read.

Leading up and out of New Year’s day I was consumed by the book, ‘The Road’.
Give the book a glance.
I think ‘The Road’ might be one of the most personally instructive (by way of reminding me what I have) book’s I have picked up in a long time.

I had not followed this book as an [...]

Innovation day

I don’t know if you read the blog by Diego Rodriguez called metacool, if not you should.
Look at the list of innovation principles on the right hand side!
Rodriguez puts a nice spin on innovation and maybe, just maybe, adds an element to the thought process that could re-focus what innovation is all about.
I hereby declare [...]

Why education today,ALL of it, gets an F!

We are in an education crisis today.
You know it.
Teachers know it.
Students know it.
Governments know it.
So, you ask, if the crisis of education is happening in front of or eyes why are we sitting on our hands and taping our mouths shut?
1. fear of change
2. change = admission of fault
3. new=unknown
4. suggests a complete societal re-think.
By [...]

It is all about the experience

We hear and read a lot about how our social, political and economic environments are in an unprecedented state of change.
As we address the change around us we often think about cuts, re-deployment, product delivery, those things we tend to be able to monetize.
I think we are being distracted from the one thing we can [...]

The whatif of Gadgets and Education!

The latest installment of GADGET LAB from Wired Magazine has really got me thinking.
The issue is how the iPhone might reboot ENGAGEMENT in education, and in this case we are talking about University education.
The goal was simple!
The initiative’s goal was to explore how the always-connected iPhone might revolutionize the classroom experience with a dash of [...]

Food for Thought.

TEDxDubai and TED.COM in general have provoked me to spend a lot of time thinking about how we communicate about the issues around us that we need to deal with now!
The short and simple answer is we do not communicate well about the micro issues that can/will and do impact upon our very lives.
Maybe we [...]

Time to sieze education back…

For too long I have been tossing a lot of cold water on the global education establishment.
IB programs do IB but are not IB.
Outcome based learning works to outcomes but doesn’t live the outcomes.
For four years I have been lucky to be able to go to some very expensive conferences that CEO’s and the like [...]

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