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  • Edu punks - the picture

    Jul 4th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

    Great picture by Alec Courosa

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    • Sounds of the Bazaar Live - Edupunk

      Jul 2nd, 2008 by Graham Attwell

      What is Edupunk? Stephen Downes offers a definition: “edupunk is student-centered, resourceful, teacher- or community-created rather than corporate-sourced, and underwritten by a progressive political stance.”

      And an anonymous commentator on his post says: “I can’t think of anything more punk than education.

      For the student, learning gives power to the individual. A society full of mindless drones trained to each do a single task doesn’t really have the mental ability to rebel in meaningful ways.

      For the teacher, every day is an exercise in punk. You’re almost completely under the control of your coordinator, your principals, your superintendents, your school board, the media. Often, “the man” passes down restrictive rules and decisions that don’t seem to align with what’s best for you or your students. Often, you’re only equipped with sparse resources you’re able to scrap together here and there.”

      Are you into edupuank. Or is this just a ludicrous social construction by white males the wrong side of 40.

      The next Emerging Monday Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE radio programme on Monday 7 July will explore the edupunk phenomonon. With interviews,music opinion, poetry and more. LIVE. And hopefully we will be welcoming resident edupunk granny Leila back to the programme. Make sure the show is in your diary. We will be broadcasting LIVE from 1900 - 2000 UK Summer Time, 2000 - 2100 Central European Summer Time. To access the programme just click on this link and it shoudl open in your favourite MP3 player. And please tell your friends.

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    • Project News

    B-Learning4all Project

      Blended Learning Support Portal (b-Portal) is online
      One of the project’s main products is online. The web-based Blended Learning Support Portal (b-Portal, http://b-learning.lefo.net) will serve as an e-learning environment, information system, discussion forum, promotion and dissemination tool around the topics of the uses of blended learning concepts and the latest developments in virtual learning environments and technologies to increase the teacher’s and [...]
      Effective and appropriate practice in b-learning
      The first post of the year. And practice seems as good as any a subject for short entry. For the last couple of hours I have been searching the internet for examples of appropriate and effective (or good, but I never liked that term) practice in blended learning. It is for a European funded project [...]

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The Future of Content

July 5th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

The Future of Content by Welsh edu-punk Martin Weller. And if you click though to the uTube version you can watch with annotations.

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Edupunk on the radio - Sounds of the Bazaar LIVE

July 4th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

What is Edupunk?
Stephen Downes offers a definition: "edupunk is student-centered, resourceful, teacher- or community-created rather than corporate-sourced, and underwritten by a progressive political stance." And an anonymous commentator on his post says: "I can’t think of anything more punk than education. For the student, learning gives power to the individual. A [...]

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Learning to think: thinking about learning

July 3rd, 2008 by Graham Attwell

I don’t agree with centralised curricula and I think curricula should be developed by the community.
But I do agree with the spirit of this report from the Guardian newspaper.
“Children of all ages should study philosophy in school to develop their critical thinking skills, education experts said today….
The book Philosophy in Schools, edited by Dr Michael [...]

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Talking about knowledge

July 1st, 2008 by Graham Attwell

I think I might have posted this some time ago. But it is worth looking at agin in teh context of developing Personal Learning Environments. I would argue that a central tole for a PLE is for knowledge development and sharing and the knowledge development involves different processes. Jenny Hughes has produced an analysis of [...]

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What do you want your PLE to be able to do?

June 29th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

I am working on a couple of new papers on Personal Learning Environments. And getting asked by developers what we want them to produce as a PLE. Nota n easy question - in fact I am not sure it is the right question! But here are a few things I think I want my PLE [...]

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More on hairdressing - a question?

June 28th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

We have a tracking plug in giving us basic stats about who is reading this blog. I’ve never worried too much about how many read it - after all it is my personal space - but I am more interested in the community apsects of trying to build the Pontydysgu web site.
In the last few [...]

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Move!

July 4th, 2008 by Cristina Costa

Yesterday this link arrived at my twitter channel via @ewanmcintosh. (isn’t twitter fab? ) Another great talk by Sir Ken Robinson. I didn’t expect it to be less than true inspiration after the last talk I had watched from him as part of the TED conference.
Yesterday evening, I finally was able to play [...]

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My Avatar Me

June 27th, 2008 by Graham Attwell

My Avatar Me - a great animation created by Steven Warburton. Soundtrack: Winds of Change by Jap Jap.

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