tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72969370325044844832024-03-05T05:56:49.172+00:00The Hum of Dewey Digital..mashing up learning, international development and education technology.fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-54134037396313486742020-02-05T15:11:00.002+00:002020-02-05T15:11:40.213+00:00What is the 'alt-right' really?
In this short essay, I want to engage with the question above, where the term 'alt-right' comes from and what can be viewed as important links between the 'alt-right', fascism and colonialism or coloniality.
The phrase 'alt-right' - denotes the alternative right, a loosely connected far-right, white nationalist movement based in the United States.
1. Who coined the term?
In 2010, the fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-21328506232662532112016-11-27T13:52:00.001+00:002016-11-27T16:42:11.861+00:00The battle for a public education system in the USA
Well America will now have billionaire Republican campaigner for charter schools, Betsy De Vos, as the next Secretary for Education.
So the fact seems to be that for many on the conservative benches apparently it makes more sense and would be better if there wasn't a secretary of education at all..
So is this just going to be assault on public education ?
Well this sounds great to those fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-60809276554230716752016-11-12T16:33:00.001+00:002016-11-12T16:37:15.861+00:00Pyramids, the next US Secretary of Education and other crazy things..
It has been a while since I managed to get around to writing here. A long while...
The world has turned on its head, turning into a basket case in just a few weeks with the US election. And I am still trying to get my head around it.
The best comment I have heard yet on the US election so far:
"Maybe the USA is not yet ready for a real democracy"
It was issued in a statement by the fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-10072983822048843282015-02-01T19:27:00.004+00:002015-02-02T00:57:36.147+00:00Back to school - so what role for social learning?
US National Archives Lady Bird Johnson Visiting a Classroom for Project Head Start 1966
In between teaching classes, interesting posts about Ed-Tech float past me on the web and sometimes something hits a nerve. At the moment I am teaching in a school that has been going through a two year process of improvement and professional development, so I get to reflect a bit on fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-34384476866895748272015-01-18T23:15:00.001+00:002015-01-18T23:51:00.162+00:00UN Data Revolution - Part 3
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fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-5784491849665713952014-11-17T03:17:00.001+00:002014-11-18T03:04:12.097+00:00So we need data - for what?
This is a
second blog post following the launch of the UN report on the ‘Data Revolution’. I'll be exploring my own ideas, and also trying to outline some ways that complexity theory is being used to work in this space. I'll also see if I can illustrate
some points from my previous post as well. I am slowly rolling these ideas along, which appear to have first been scribbled in apparent fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-55721670552356701982014-11-07T02:24:00.001+00:002014-11-07T15:47:32.690+00:00Who is 'data' really ?
I have been listening recently to discussions about data, often in the context of transforming something or often with critical implications for some bottom line, at other times with claims about it being by nature 'disruptive'.
But increasingly I am beginning to suspect that many of these intertwined discussions are fundamentally different ones. Or at least, that people mean quite different fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-17121745009685992502014-08-24T17:51:00.000+01:002014-08-26T13:08:44.568+01:00Ideas and future projects
In the last few months as I have been freed from schools by the summer
holidays and instead have been bouncing in between different worlds. In
July I was in Berlin for OKFest and co-facilitated a session there on Open Education and Open Data to which Ottavio Ritter from the OK Ed Working group contributed to immensely and helped to provide details on the kinds of initatives that are on-going fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-19372817214167899242014-07-08T19:51:00.001+01:002014-07-08T19:51:51.814+01:00Open Education Smörgåsbord at OKFest 2014
In a few weeks I will be in Berlin (from 13th-20th July) in order to participate in OKFest, which is Open Knowledge's big festival and get together - (the first OKFest took place in 2012 in Helsinki) bringing people from all kinds of communities together to work on ideas and share inspiration. The event's offical dates are 15th - 17th but there are a number of awesome fringe events to attend fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-35011266548049818492014-05-14T01:47:00.000+01:002014-05-14T01:48:32.910+01:00UNESCO Mobile Learning week 2014
This is a quick overview of a few things that took place in February of 2014 at UNESCO Mobile Learning week in Paris. The presentations and post event materials are now available on the Mobile Learning Week webpage here and there is a quick post about it here detailing some of the presentations.
and
post-event materials are now available on the Mobile Learning Week 2014
webpage - See more at:fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-69271824542235011172014-04-14T18:20:00.000+01:002014-04-16T19:40:45.892+01:00Oppi Festival 2014
Over the last two days I have attended a fantastic event in Finland this week called Oppi and have been wandering around the beautiful city of Helsinki. So after leaving the beautiful Finlandia Hall I had some time to think over it.
It was a truly engaging and thought provoking festival with buckets of personality, crazy humour and positive 'let's get it, not sweat it' ethos behind fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-14344992072096120512013-12-01T20:57:00.001+00:002013-12-11T22:50:37.646+00:00Open Development & Open Data - Challenges and Opportunities
Global Development Professionals Network in London ICT4D Meetup:
'Open Data in Development' and 'Open Development' has sort of come of age. Global financial institutions, recipients of aid like Kenya, donors like DFID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation see potential in the arrival of open data to the development world, as posts by Chris Gingerich and Saara Romu indicate
The fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-70784425995613055892013-11-16T23:33:00.000+00:002013-11-23T14:02:13.703+00:00How to Hijack an Aid Program and other musings..
The summary: this post is an attempt sketch out some thoughts and observations on recent changes to Australia's aid program. There are also some observations on how education is being recast as a form of 'soft power' under the new government. This post also focuses on how these changes bring forward concerns for disaster relief work and aid effectiveness, particularly when these rub up fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-57099467335373259072013-09-16T01:27:00.001+01:002013-09-16T01:27:11.577+01:00Some perspectives on Open Data for Education and Development
Here is a quick whirl through some thoughts that relate to the Open Knowledge Festival in Geneva taking place on the 16th of September. I will be there attending a number of workshops and listening to some of the debates on development and open data work going on worldwide in different contexts. There is also a workshop on Open Education which will be connecting up with the work that Mozilla is fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-25868270439715264002013-09-10T15:07:00.001+01:002013-09-11T00:26:49.064+01:00Large Scale Reforms in Ecuador
How is Ecuador moving away from Neoliberal educational solutions in its large scale reforms? (Tuesday - session 2)
Ecuador's large scale reforms include the removal of barriers that impede school access, changes to the legal framework of education, the focus on including citizens in higher education and to the wholes system in radical ways. They have increased the investment into school fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-24002749743650238032013-09-10T12:43:00.003+01:002013-09-11T00:12:52.031+01:00Thoughts On The Non State Sector in Education
Thoughts On The Non State Sector in Education (Tuesday Session 1)
Is another question that needs to be asked, not just what works in non-state education and what are the lessons we can learn from experiments with PPP's and innovations in different places, but also what conditions will make non-state education work in different places, is it being be supported by the government, elites, fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-8660717307487421082013-08-24T17:52:00.000+01:002013-08-25T02:44:19.159+01:00Brainstorming a session on Mozilla's Web-literacy Standards
I am working on setting up a session for Mozilla's amazing upcoming Mozfest in London in October. If you have not heard of it, then check it out here: http://mozillafestival.org/
It will be an awesome mind blowing event if last year is anything to go on, so if you have not signed up you should drop everything you are doing and come :) No, really - everything, it is great.
What are the web fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-70411001414395877072013-05-16T20:32:00.001+01:002013-05-16T21:07:31.185+01:00Stay Focused :)
Right now I am working on a few things and am trying to stay as focused as possible. Much of my time is spent working as a teacher at an Academy in the South East of the UK which is experimenting with using technology and quite large classes. I have one class of nearly 95 year 8 students !
The rest of my time is spent working on ideas for some of my own research at the moment into learning fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-61466711042287529672013-04-22T23:39:00.004+01:002013-04-22T23:39:43.836+01:00Window on the WorldThis week I stumbled across this useful resource for both education and development and the citizenship and new technologies researchers.
It is called 'Window on the World' and it is a free snapshot put out by the journal 'Development' and it covers a different topic each year.
The topics covered this year include a useful list of organizations working on issues of citizenship and new fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-90275807312515904632013-02-25T15:30:00.001+00:002013-02-25T22:27:13.667+00:00Big Data and Literacy
In my last post I wanted to try to pin-point some ideas that seemed important to me in reference to the discussion going on at ETMOOC and with Mozilla around digital literacy and web literacy. It has been really engaging with some great discussions
on these topics with people via ETMOOC, and through the Webmaker network, and
via Twitter as well.
There is so much more I'd like to say on the fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-35739663237095600032013-02-18T00:03:00.002+00:002013-02-18T00:33:08.354+00:00Digital Literacy Exemplars, Resources and Curating Tools
This just a quick post to follow on from the ideas that I was running with before, with some little clips or exemplars and snippets. I will sort of summarise the ideas from my longer post on literacy and will add some little bits.
1. I think that models or theories of literacy such as transactional or functional literacy and others that are more transformational (eg such as fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-28366018658036546632013-02-15T00:35:00.001+00:002013-02-18T00:13:05.706+00:00Towards Web-literacy and Transformative literacy
Literacy and Web-literacy
In anticipation for next week and for the discussions around literacy and web-literacy I think there are a few things I am thinking about both as a literacy teacher and an edtech person. Unfortunately this is going to roam into the realm of the academic banter on literacy. But this might be interesting to spark off some ideas for next week..
From my own fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-2485426293535477492013-02-14T22:46:00.001+00:002013-02-14T22:49:15.353+00:00Digital Storytelling and Popcorn
Digital Storytelling
I have really enjoyed seeing some of the digital storytelling examples and the sessions, like the awesome one on GIF's as well. I think that taking stock of the ways that storytelling can fit into different spaces is a perfect idea for learning about connections and new tools. I particularly liked the reference in Wikipedia of its use in participatory development fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-35809983567957368472013-02-14T22:25:00.002+00:002013-02-14T22:25:28.860+00:00Connected learning
Connected Learning
This is going to be a longish - but first of all I just wanted to thanks everyone for helping me get going and getting stuck in. I have been really enjoying looking at other people's work and have been really inspired by reading around.
Digital storytelling seems like the best place for me to start here for now as I sort of have to hit the road running. But beforehand, two fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7296937032504484483.post-68127488721394249542013-02-14T01:29:00.000+00:002013-02-14T01:35:39.670+00:00Introduction to ETMOOC
This is a quick post to introduce myself and to kick things off with ETMOOC. I might make a quick intro video to go with this but the simple bits are here.
I am not sure if this is too late but I hope it is not.
My reasons for asking to join in were that I wanted to get
involved in this course as a teacher to learn better how to develop and extend my own tech skills and also to try to fishytomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591242725697004442noreply@blogger.com1