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Tanzania on $0 a day
‘In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and will understand only what we are taught.’ ~ Baba Didum I don’t know about your school, but organising...
View ArticleVoicethread postcard from America
This is a Voicethread that looks at both the work and the play I experienced during the Churchill Fellowship.
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iCare: summary of Churchill Fellowship final report
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill It’s been a while since my last blog post: it being a lengthy, reflective...
View ArticleVirtual World’s Best Practice in Education conference – reflections
Below you will find a brief overview of some sessions I attended at the VWBPE 2011 conference. One highlight not mentioned in the Voicethread was Botgirl’s discussion of how we construct identity in...
View ArticleFear Itself – a Churchill Chat
This is a Vimeo video of the recent Churchill Chat for the NSW Fellows. Fear Itself – a Churchill Chat from Steven Caldwell on Vimeo.
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3D ‘Gee’-lab
“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.” ~ Leo F. Buscaglia You might...
View ArticleAre computer games better than life? a reflection
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan Like many growing up in the late 70s and early 80s bright boxy video games were a favourite way to escape from the...
View Article‘You Can Be a Hero’
”Play of the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.’ ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce Over the past five years, Quest Atlantis has become a significant part of the learning pathway of our...
View ArticleThe legacy of play
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of...
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Play’s the thing – part one
‘Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.’ ~ Plato 427–347 BCE (This blog post is drawn from a longer report written to explore why and how we might create a Minecraft server...
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