I’m a sucker for knowing the story behind things. Whether it is a biography about a famous person, a film about an event in history or an interview with an artist. I think as humans we want to make sense of things in the world, especially when they are just off centre with the norm. [...]
Continue Reading Add comment September 28, 2012
The great thing about being connected through social media is that you can go back to previous ‘likes’. While scrolling through my timeline, I spotted a video that captured my interest once again. It is a video that architect Randall Fielding demonstrates the connection between where and how students learn in the 21st century. As [...]
Continue Reading Add comment April 9, 2012
My blog is a means for me to tell my story, to reflect on what I have learnt, heard or experienced. It helps me to build meaning through my writing and links to multi-media, such as images and video clips. It is a place where I can pull things together and a place where I [...]
Continue Reading 5 comments March 31, 2012
With my my third semester of my Masters of School Leadership started, my mind is now back into full reflective and thinking mode. Not that it wasn’t before, but once again the readings and discussions related to my studies have helped to bring things together. There are many things happening in my workplace; my school. [...]
Continue Reading Add comment March 24, 2012
Today it has been four years since I first started my blog, “More Than Just Knowing Stuff”. The title was chosen to reflect my philosophy of education, that is, that it is more than just knowing a whole heap of stuff, but rather being able to learn, grow, reflect, experience, challenge thinking and collaborate. It [...]
Continue Reading 4 comments January 5, 2012
Stories engage, inspire and help make meaning of events and ideas. Over the last few months I have been reading and hearing more about the way a story can support the way we learn and teach, and how it can help to create an identity or an image. Much of my thinking and learning lately [...]
Continue Reading Add comment October 31, 2011
I’m not sure if it is just me, or if it something that other people are noticing now too. Sometime ago for me, early 2000s, we were exploring how children learn, pushing the boundaries about the way we teach and taking note of theories of learning. We probed children’s thinking, questioned them for understanding and [...]
Continue Reading Add comment September 18, 2011
I have been learning about QR codes recently. Over the last few months they have been appearing on Twitter and in marketing but I have not really known much about them. Lack of time, a different focus, or simply filtering new information has meant I have let these little square bar codes pass me by. [...]
Continue Reading Add comment April 13, 2011
This year is going to be big! But then I think each year has been like that for me. I like to learn, to be better and to achieve. As a kid this never came easy. School wasn’t hard but it certainly wasn’t easy either. I would spend a lot of time on tasks that [...]
Continue Reading 2 comments March 14, 2011
Today I listened to a talk by Linda Darling-Hammond on The Flat World and Education. A fairly long presentation about the future of education and schooling, what we are doing now and what we can be doing to make a difference for all students. Darling-Hammond talks much about the systems in the US and draws [...]
Continue Reading Add comment February 7, 2011
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