Teaching and E-learning

This post was originally published in Education Review: SECTOR VOICES 2015
One of the toughest things about being a champion for educational change is that you need to take people with you. In fact sometimes it is even tough to take yourself along for the ride....

Professor Yong Zhao, Presidential Chair, University of Oregon, USA
Slides available at: http://zhaolearning.com
Held up Air New Zealand as an example of innovation - making safety videos you actually want to watch.

Leadbetter opened by talking about his paper that addressed Personalised Learning in 2004, which at the time was challenged and picked and apart - it is heartening that the discourse around personalised learning is so strong now.
There's enormous agreement about where we are at and what we need to do. Now we need to move on. The system that we have inherited is running into the sand. There is a sense that we want different things. We need to do something different to do something...

This session focused on ways of knowing and what is worth knowing informed by indigenous/First Nation perspectives, the growing diversity of our populations and the needs of society and economy.
To begin the session Valerie Hannon (Co-Chair GELP) set out the foundation for the discussion looking at "What is learning for?". The old narrative about 'economic competitiveness' and 'fulfilling personal potential' seem increasingly inadequate....