John Larkin's diluted thoughts on teaching, learning, technology & life in an era of change.
Teach history. Students are good, particularly those in Years 9 and 10. Students ground you.
Taught history twice. In between those two occasions developed web sites for various tertiary educational institutions and eLearning solutions for Nokia (Europe and Asia), Singapore Airlines, JP Morgan Bank (NY) and others. That was an experience. Highs and lows.
Now I blend the two. Encouraging the students to go beyond MySpace and Facebook to really publish on their own platforms.
Well, what can Posterous do for me?
This October I shall be conducting a few workshops for teachers during the
school holidays. During the course of the workshops I shall be demonstrating
the features and benefits of Posterous.
As a result a few test posts will be coming and going on this Posterous
blog. One moment they will be there. Next moment they will be gone.
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Heaven's In Here
Listening to Heaven's In Here by Tin Machine. The opening bars of this song
are foreboding, apprehensive, inviting, edgy.
Reeves Gabrel's guitar jags at the air. Bowie's voice smokily delivers the
words. A song that drives you to the end.
http://www.last.fm/music/Tin+Machine/_/Heaven%27s+in+Here
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The joys of instructional design
Stephen Downes posted a note regarding this video via Karl Kapp. It brings back many memories for me.
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Filtering out the noise
Maish Nichani has written a telling post on inner spam filters. He was inspired by an article in the Scientific American, Your Inner Spam Filter. Maish succinctly relates that there are two types of people, “those who can remember large amounts of information (high-capacity individuals) and those who can’t (low-capacity individuals). The draw on research and show that it’s not that the high-capacity individuals have a larger store, it’s just that they are better at ignoring the spam that comes their way! In fact they found that some low-capacity individuals were holding more information than high-capacity individuals.” Which am I? Which are you?
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Whoever invented stick figures was a genius!
Sketching on the whiteboard during Year 10 history today. Teaching the history of the womens’ movement in Australia. Exchanging ideas with the students regarding the glass ceiling. I asked the students to create a diagram that they felt illustrated the concept.
I sketched my own. Consisted of stick figures.
As I sketched one of my students exclaimed, “Whoever invented stick figures was a genius!”.
It was a revelatory moment for her and also for me. That person was a genius.
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How far did you roam as a child?
Last weekend I wrote a post about the distance I used to roam from home as a child. Things seemed to have changed 40 years later.
As kids we would roam around the area where I grew up in the Illawarra. There was so much to do and so much to explore. We would go fishing, swimming, sliding down the sandhills on cardboard or sheets of masonite, look for bullet shells, let off fire crackers, search for geckoes, build massive sand-castles and so on. We would be gone all day, returning home at dusk. No worries, no fears.
Where did you roam as a child? I would be most happy for you to share your stories on my Watershed blog.
Perhaps you could write on your own blog post and link back to my original post as a meme? Would love to read your stories.
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