The first entry in this inaugural blog is to formally announce this blog open, with the customary smashing of champagne bottle onto blog hull.
The purpose of all of this is to find a place to capture the seemingly random collection of thoughts I have about ICT and education and pedagogy and indeed ultimately the human condition. Because they are all linked, they have always been linked and they will link in an ever more entangled manner in the future.
In brief I returned recently from an iPad conference in Singapore, the purpose of which was to examine mobile device learning in the 21st Century and how on earth we plot a path through it all. Springing forth from the conference is the conviction in my mind that our world is changing so so rapidly that we had better be sure that we know what we are doing, and at least have an idea of where we are going, and why. And why we absolutely cannot persist with the same old model of education that was imposed on my generation and my parents' generation and their parents generation before them. Because the children that I teach are not of my generation, and they are leaps and bounds ahead of me with what they are experiencing on a daily basis, and this thought is both unsettling and curiously uplifting in equal measure.
