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It all depends how you look and read things.

This is a great piece of video that truly does make you think about not only what we see and think about but how we contextualize things.
Content is important BUT context is also very important.
Do you really listen?
When you are listening do you get the point?
Or do you hear what you want to hear?
There are [...]

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 that is [...]

death by email

I love the way Hugh MacLeod gets right to the point!
Technology is great,don’t get me wrong, BUT we are failing in a epic way to manage the use of it in a manner that is healthy!
And the classic example of our failure to manage and live with technology is email!
We have lost control of out [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

The New Face of Journalism I Imagine.

I believe journalism is in a crisis situation, the crisis of being irrelevant.
I believe that journalism is on the brink of becoming irrelevant as a field of study NOT because students are abandoning the field of study, but because the professors and practitioners of the trade are unable to grasp, see, live, adapt to the [...]

The Landline.

Don’t email.
Don’t SMS.
In fact push the technology away for 1 hour a day and during that hour try to communicate old school! (share with me your experience!)
Recently I have started to do just that, communicate old school.
What I have done is commit to spending Xamount on my long distance telephone bill.
And given that I am [...]

Back from a Blog Break.

Do you ever just tune out?
Stop blogging, stop email (well I did answer 5 messages from my students), hold the tweets, facebook freeze?
What do you have to lose is the big question.
Maybe continuity.
Maybe followers.
Maybe nothing.
What I find whether I take a 7 day or 7 week break is that I fell far more alert to [...]

Books Redeployed.

Sometimes we stumble on ideas in the places we least expect to find them.
The OECD is full of bright ideas that often seem to be left hanging.
The OECD in its work on sustainable development talks about the idea of books on demand.
I do not want to suggest that the bookstore is going to die or [...]

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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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