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Sounds like the name of a post-modernist novel, doesn’t it? It’s not. Instead, it’s the way I sometimes feel whenever I go on holiday. I don’t go on many – for some reason, I don’t get around to it with the regularity of some of my friends, but when I do, they’re pretty big. Often,…

We came to San Diego along the railway line, having hugged the coast for more than 2 hours, each new vista bring a new sight: mountain bikers, RVs, even a few marine helicopters when we went past the base. And for the whole trip, so close that you could almost touch it, the Pacific Ocean…

I came to Los Angeles prepared to hate it. It was my first time in the city, but, as often happens with the great cities around the world, I felt like I had already been there. I’d seen a thousand films, a thousand news report, and none of it had impressed me that much –…

San Francisco – we fly into the airport in blinding sun, at a time when my body is telling me that it’s the middle of the night. It’s been a disrupted journey from the start – my flight was delayed for a day, meaning we missed out on the chance to go to Skywalker Ranch…

I’ve heard this one a lot since we became a 1:1 school. Let’s face it, one of the real strengths of the iPad (for kids, perhaps, not teachers) is that it is a great, portable way of playing games. There’s a reason the games category far outstrips the other categories in terms of apps and…

We’re all busy people – it’s like the sickness of the modern age, although I have my suspicion that it’s far older than that. And teachers are busier than most people – I don’t think many people really subscribe to the old 9-3 and that’s that belief anymore. For teachers, the workloads are really beginning…

It’s that time of the year, again, at least in Australia, when students are in the home stretch and heading for their final exams. IT’s also the time of year when many teachers really begin to express concerns about their students – either for the level of ability, or for their motivation. I’m not going…

I’ve done a few 1:1 implementations in my time – firstly with laptops, but now across schools with iPads, which is not necessarily any harder or easier, but just a different kind of approach. Anyway, I thought I would spend a few lines documenting some of the major issues that I’ve come across in my…

Introduction It would be difficult to argue that, along with many other facets of modern life, technology has become a common part of educational institutions around Australia, and indeed, many other parts of the world. Of course, the use of technology in schools – and its continued prevalence amongst the lives of young people –…

So I recently skyped with my doctoral supervisor again. We hadn’t spoken for a while while I was working on my first draft of the thesis, but we’ve now moved onto a new stage of our working relationship as we review and make changes to my first draft. This is going to be a lot…