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• Building Learning Communities 08: See you there?

  Published: October 10, 2007, 10:59 pm

  Tags: Blc08, Alan November, Blc08, Ewan Mcintosh, Blc

  I was fortunate enough to have an invitation from Alan November to give a few talks at 2007's sell-out Building Learning Communities (BLC) conference in Boston. I'm delighted to have been asked back this coming summer to deliver the opening keynote and provoke some thoughts for the rest of this festival of learning. I've chosen a theme close

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• Building Learning Communities 08: See you there?

  Published: October 10, 2007, 10:50 pm

  Tags: Blc08, Alan November, Blc08, Ewan Mcintosh

  I was fortunate enough to have an invitation from Alan November to give a few talks at 2007's sell-out Building Learning Communities (BLC) conference in Boston. I'm delighted to have been asked back this coming summer to deliver the opening keynote and provoke some thoughts for the rest of this festival of learning. I've chosen a theme close to

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• The problem of talking about the new web: you have to do it, too

  Published: November 22, 2007, 7:45 am

  Tags: Blc08, K12online07, Ltsfutures, Newcon, Scotlearnfest07, Weblogs

  I do hope Stephen Heppell responds to Bill Kerr's points on his Australian keynote speech, points that sum up something with which I, as a conference presenter, become increasingly uncomfortable:1) An important international expert arrives from overseas to tell us that local knowledge is the most important thing;2) We sit in lecture mode hearing

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• 3/3: The best school systems in the world: best students come from best teachers

  Published: January 8, 2008, 9:28 am

  Tags: Assessment, Blc08, Collaborative Learning, Leadership Amp Management, Assessment, Attainment, Blc08, Mckinsey, Teacher

  This is the final of three posts in a series paraphrasing the 2007 McKinsey report (pdf), which analysed what made the best education systems in the world, well, the best. It's the way you tell 'emIt was a Northern Irish comedian who explained comedy like that, but the same might be said of teaching. The only way to improve outcomes is to

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• 1/3: The best school systems in the world: it's not (all) about the money

  Published: January 7, 2008, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Collaborative Learning, Curriculum, Funding, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, School Systems, Blc08, Change, Mckinsey, Scotland, Singapore

  It's no secret to those of us who teach, have taught or can remember being taught: the most important element in a child's education is... the teacher. So says the 2007 McKinsey report (pdf) which analysed what made the best education systems in the world, well, the best. Over the next series of posts, allow me to paraphrase for you... (Remember,

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• 2/3: The best school systems in the world: finding or creating the best teachers?

  Published: January 7, 2008, 1:48 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Blc08, Curriculum, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Professional Development, Cpd, Mckinsey, Teacher

  This is the second of three posts in a series paraphrasing the 2007 McKinsey report (pdf), which analysed what made the best education systems in the world, well, the best. Duh Point #1: You need Good TeachersWe've all had the experience of being taught by a dire teacher, someone who turned us off learning or, at best, made it difficult to

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• McKerouac - A Month Stateside

  Published: June 27, 2008, 2:56 pm

  Tags: Blc08, Teachmeet08, World Of Ewan, Blc08, Edubloggercon, Edubloggercon08, Ewanmcintosh, Necc, Necc08

  It takes about two days, really, to get door-to-door from Edinburgh to anywhere in the States, so one might as well make as much of an invitation Stateside as one can. Thanks to an initial generous invite to keynote Alan November's Boston-based Building Learning Communities (now sold out and with a long waiting list) later in July, and a

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• BLC08: Thinking Out Of The x(Box) update

  Published: July 15, 2008, 10:53 am

  Tags: Blc08, Creativity, Gaming, Blc08

  On Monday I helped kick off the Pre-Conference workshops at Alan November's Building Learning Communities week in Boston, with a four-hour workshop on using video games, text-based games, alternate reality games and consoles as a stimulus for creative writing, art, design and the sciences. The updated notes from Thinking Out Of The x(Box) are

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• An alternative view of filmmaking

  Published: July 15, 2008, 2:25 pm

  Tags: Blc08, Digital Video Animation, Gaming, Blc08

  I'm borrowing electricity and wifi at the back of a Marco Torres and Alasmedia film-making spectacular, delving into filmmaking of another kind. I found the Steampunk movie below, from Alice, as beautiful and enchanting as many of the 'real' movies I've seen recently. It would make great creative fodder for some creative writing of the kind I was

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• An alternative view of filmmaking

  Published: July 15, 2008, 2:25 pm

  Tags: Blc08, Digital Video Animation, Gaming, Blc08

  I'm borrowing electricity and wifi at the back of a Marco Torres and Alasmedia film-making spectacular, delving into filmmaking of another kind. I found the Steampunk movie below, from Alice, as beautiful and enchanting as many of the 'real' movies I've seen recently. It would make great creative fodder for some creative writing of the kind I was

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• BLC08: Thinking Out Of The x(Box) update

  Published: July 15, 2008, 10:53 am

  Tags: Blc08, Creativity, Gaming, Blc08

  On Monday I helped kick off the Pre-Conference workshops at Alan November's Building Learning Communities week in Boston, with a four-hour workshop on using video games, text-based games, alternate reality games and consoles as a stimulus for creative writing, art, design and the sciences. The updated notes from Thinking Out Of The x(Box) are now

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