Having had little experience with Minecraft in the first place, it has been a challenge to evaluate the different platforms, and while I fully understand why it is important to be aware of the limitations and affordances of the different platforms the game is available one, I decided to focus on understanding the underlying logic and usefulness of the game from a pedagogical perspective.…
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Loading...I’m sick of grades. Here’s why and here’s what I do and what I would do. This is the first part of a series of posts where I look at aspects of my professional life which I find difficult to correlate with my beliefs and principles.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The #minecraft journey continues, and it has been great fun so far.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The first post about my experiences with #EVOMC15 and using Minecraft. I am very excited to find out how it works and how it can support work in and outside the classroom.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A recent Facebook discussion left me doubting my slacktivism and naivity. In this post I try to understand why these two things are so important to me.
Are you a slacktivist? Are you naive?…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I have been meaning to write about podcats ever since I started this blog. This completely new form of entertainment has fascinated me since I downloaded my very first episode of the History of Rome podcast. (For a thoroughly enjoyable account of the fascinating history of the Roman Empire, check out the iTunes Store or Mike’s blog and download the 179 episodes of this podcast.)…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This new edition of the #5days5posts series starts with a short musing about setting myself 30-day challenges. I contemplate why I think it’s a good idea to do and I announce the first two challenges for the next 30 days.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This final post is concerned with one of my longest lasting obsessions: utopian thought.
I think the roots of this mania are in the very early realisation of many things that were wrong with the world I lived in when I was a child, which was itself a utopian experiment that went tragically wrong -( i.e.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The move back to Dubai turned out to be a fantastic decision. I have had one of the most exciting years of my life. Most of you would know that I came back on the proviso that I would not seek full-time employment of any kind.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Do you volunteer? Have you found yourself in conflicts? How have you dealt with them? I strongly believe that most conflicts (small and large) come from a lack of knowing the other person (country, race, group) and if we spend some time together we will find ways of influencing, learning from and respecting one another.…
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