Today TEDxZU Was Launched!
Well today was a special day, TEDxZU was launched. Since 2009 I have been a curator or co-curator of 3 different TEDx events, spoken at a TEDx event and helped mentor 2 events. After my last TEDx, TEDxAbuDhabiU which was excellent, I went back to the drawing board. Actually I asked myself why [...]
e-texts coming?
Sure there are a variety of services out there that are offering e-textbook services. But so far the penetration of e-books is a little reminiscent of the VHS vs BETA days. Nobody has really come to the plate with an easy, affordable, audience catching model. So what is the e-textbook thing all about? Here is the primer. [...]
Are we teaching to success or excuses?
Two things happen this time of the year for a professor. First the professor starts thinking about the 7 weeks of vacation that is staring them in the face. Yes academics are not the most highly paid people on the planet BUT they do get great holidays. The second thing that happens this time of [...]
The power of youth!
The single greatest problem today is not listening to our youth! Why is that an issue? We professors, we bureaucrats, we parents, we …. are truly bankrupt of creative ideas. What we do have is a means to implement ideas but what we lack are ideas, new innovative,creative ideas. Look at Greece! How do they [...]
What do students really want.
You may be asking why have my last couple of posts been very pointedly about education? The obvious answer is that I spend a portion of my day in the classroom, at the university level, and deal 1st hand with the education realities of the day. I am also part of a group of educators [...]
Ownership = Success
The question on every teachers mind has to be how do I package what I teach to get students engaged? Good question and one that seldom, if ever, gets acted upon! Once children leave primary school less and less attention is given to the engagement of the student and more and more is attention is [...]
The Problem With Education… people@All
I am preparing for another week of classes and giving more thought to how I will teach than what I will teach. After a week and change of the current semester it is clear to me that the teaching exercise is a pretty easy mix of show and tell. Think about the best part of [...]
Do it in 30 and people hours.
I just gave a class an assignment. 1. produce a PowerPoint about the essential public speaking skills to be passed on to new students. 2. create a handout to go with the PowerPoint. My class was broken into groups and given 30 minutes. The result was not good. I am amazed really! What I have [...]
Education re-boot UK!
The UK government has taken the bold step of telling the education establishment that it is no longer viable to test the energy, creativity and innovation out of education. But what are two generations of teachers going to do now? I am worried that they, the teachers have been caught in the teach to test [...]
The power of cooperation!
WEB 2.0 is a fact of life. WEB 3.0 has been tentatively defined in WIKIPEDIA as… Web 3.0, a phrase coined by John Markoff of the New York Times in 2006, refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web’—such as those using semantic web, [...]
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