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Teaching Point.

Just a little observation.
Today a student asked me about what was required of a practicum exercise.
We are going to be reporting on the 2nd Global Media Ethics Roundtable using social media tools.
The students question was can I post a video and be done?
I suppose but what a waste of time and possibility.
It seems it was [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Better use of time!

The problem with social media is that is can and will be all consuming if you allow it to be.
The problem with the Internet in general is there is simply so much out there how do you know where to start looking for information, ideas and just stuff?
The usual approach is to go to your [...]

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 [...]

TEDx Dubai works and other do not get it!

I was part of an amazing experience in Dubai on the 10th of October, TEDx Dubai.
TEDx Dubai was all about igniting the passion in people to not only talk about issues but to actually get out there and do something about it.
Five people, all with full time jobs that are not related to conference organization, [...]

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 [...]

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