N4L - Continue

Triumph and Disaster Part 2

In New Zealand education policy, the failure of Talent2 and the Ministry of Education to build and deliver the Novopay payroll system has been widely covered in the media. This failure occurred for a number of technical and contractual reasons, many of which have been laid out in reviews. The

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The School of the Future isn't brought to you by Sun Microsystems

Or Dell. Or Yahoo. Or Facebook. Or Google. I wrote most of this post last November, but I was reminded of it today, after reading this article The Future of Education? First 'Samsung School' in Canada Opens. I joked about opening a Yates school, but maybe it's not a joke

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When measuring matters

"If a measurement matters at all, it is because it must have some conceivable effect on decisions and behaviour. If we can't identify a decision that could be affected by a proposed measurement and how it could change those decisions, then the measurement simply has no value” Douglas W.

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Technology doesn't do anything. People do.

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us. - Marshall Mcluhan : Understanding Media, 1964 The Ministry of Education is starting their roadshows about the Network for Learning. I've been reading a few things about this new initiative, and reading frustrations expressed by some in schools about the ongoing

N4L - Who's it for?

SPOILER: I'm conscious this post may cause people to tell me I'm wrong. I'm OK with that. Please comment from your perspective, and your expertise. In that horrible way of education, the soon to be inaugurated Network for Learning, is known by the shorthand: N4L. Because, you know, it's for