I’ve been reading a lot about gamification and learning in the last couple of weeks. Some of this will have an influence on Predict: Current and future trends in e-learning in, which is one of the subjects in the new Graduate Certificate in Learning Design. In some ways, I’m sad that I can only focus…
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Teachmeets and Learning Design
I’ve been looking at Teachmeets as a bit of a research interest for a couple of weeks now. I think it’s a really quite interesting space, and part of that interest comes from, I think, the different – and perhaps conflicting ways – that teachers are using movements like Teachmeets. Equally, I’m not entirely certain…
Game Review: Pathfinder Kingmaker
I don’t get a lot of time to play computer games these days, what with children, work and everything else that’s going on – so any game that keeps me occupied for more than 70 hours must be pretty special. And Pathfinder:Kingmaker certainly fits that category. It is, in every sense of the word, epic….
Politics 2020: A Flipping of Political Poles
I’m sure I’m hardly the first person to consider this, but I’ve been musing a little bit now about the way that politics seems to have become an entirely more confused affair. I’m mostly speaking about Western countries like Australia and the US, and these are the observations of an interested amateur more than any…
Some thoughts regarding designing a curriculum for learning designers
I think this is a theme that I’ve addressed before, but I think it’s worth revisiting it regularly, as my thinking regarding the development of a learning design curriculum changes. I’m also thinking that it might be worth writing up some of these thoughts in a more formal sense as I continue, as I’m sure…
I’ve been info-graphed!
Onder Sit, an educator from overseas, reach out to me to tell me that he had made some comments from me into an infographic. He did a pretty good job, so I thought I would share it here, too.
Why I make boxes
It’s Mother’s Day again, at least in Australia, and, as per usual, I have made a box for you, Elizabeth, the mother of my children. I know it’s a bit of a strange pasttime, and I hope it never replaces that half-painted paddle pop trees and macaroni jewellery that Lucas and Sophia have made are…
Presentation to TELedvisors SIG
Here is a presentation about the GCLD that I made the the ASCILITE TELedvisors SIG. The formatting is a bit screwed because I converted it to a Google Slides presentation.
COVIDSAFE and Citizenship
One of the areas related to civics and citizenship education and active citizenship that I am finding particularly interesting is the way that various groups and individuals are reacting to the release of the COVIDSAFE app by the federal government. This app will be used to trace the contacts that people who have tested positive…
The Role of Teachers in Disrupted Times
I normally try to stick to learning design and civics and citizenship on these blogs, with occasional forays into computer games and so on, but I felt compelled to write what about the arguments that I am seeing play out in the media and especially across social media in relation to teachers, schools and the…