Here’s me talking civics and citizenship with Mark Parry: https://soundcloud.com/mark-parry-3/keith-heggart
Category: Education
Warm, Wise Feedback and Automation
Here are my slides from a presentation I did with some colleagues about Warm Wise Feedback.
Getting started with XR (for teachers)
In one of the subjects that I teach, we talk about current and future trends in education, and especially as they relate to learning design. One of the topics that we spend a bit of time exploring is Extended Reality, which is the catch all term that I use to encapsulate Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality…
Review of the Australian Curriculum
So, the next version of the Australian Curriculum is currently out for public review. I will be contributing to a variety of submissions in a number of guises, but I also wanted to document my thoughts here, specifically as they related to Civics and Citizenship. I’ll start by beating my usual drum about the place…
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…
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…
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…