Recently, I had the chance to take part in the Educ8 conference, which was a 24 hour (or longer!) event across multiple time zones, hosted entirely on Clubhouse, the new audio only social media app. I was invited by Mark Parry, a fellow Learning Designer, to work with him to contribute to a session all…
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Is Citizenship the wrong term?
Careful readers of educational policy, and especially those with an interest in Civics and Citizenship Education will have noted that the recent version of the Australian Goals for Schooling – the Alice Springs (Mparntwe) Declaration – has a number of significant changes from its predecessor, the Melbourne Declaration. One of the most overlooked, as far…
Feedback and Feedforward
Learning Design: Feedback and Feedforward I’ve been teaching a class about Assessment and Evaluation as part of the Graduate Certificate in Learning Design at the moment. It’s the first time I’ve taught the subject since I designed it, and 4 weeks in, I’m reasonably pleased with how it’s going. We recently did a session all…
Citizenship and Power
I was recently asked to provide some feedback about a program that had been developed to encourage active citizenship amongst young people in one of Australia’s state. It was an interesting experience, and afforded me the chance to reflect just how far I have come as an expert – and an opinionated one, too –…
Supervising HDR Students
This year I’ve been supervising a Higher Degree by Research (HDR) student for the first time. This feels a bit strange, considering that I’m only a few years out of completing my own PhD, but I imagine that’s common for students. And, of course, at least I have the benefit of drawing on my own…
Writing with teachers
Recently, we had a research mapping exercise in our school at my university. This meant that the four different clusters all worked individually and in small groups to cover questions about their motivations, impact, collaboration, methodologies and the theories that inform their research. It was a good activity, not least because it was a chance…
CMALT: Future Plans
The use of learning analytics to better inform learning design to improve student outcomes Learning analytics is becoming increasingly prevalent across a wide range of educational institutions. I believe that it will have a powerful effect upon educators and students in the future. Used appropriately, it might inform learning designers about the different aspects of…
Research Agenda for 2021: Part Two (Learning Design)
This agenda is a little bit less formulated than my previous agenda (on Civics and Citizenship education) and that’s reasonable as it reflects a later research interest. Even though I have separated out the two different aspects, I should also note that there is significant overlap between the two, and the division is purely for…
Activist Citizenship Education is here!
If you’re like me, you’ve been watching the events in the US with a fair amount of anxiety. I want to know how this could happen – and who could let it happen, or even worse, encourage it. What is the role of social media and mobile technology in this? And what responsibility do extremists…
Research Agenda for 2021: Part One (Civics and Citizenship)
So for 2021, now that I am starting to find myself more comfortable at UTS, I think that it’s time to really start applying myself with some dedication to my research agenda. This is going to be complicated by the increased amount of teaching that I am required to do, but I think that I…