The Paradox of It All

 me:  hi
speaking with Bill about taking things forward into a sponsored scholarship Masters
 Robyn:  cool
thesis?
 me:  yes
Doctorate eventually
just need to get started and make it a working venture that pays
 Robyn:  cool
  Robyn:  need to fly back later
 me:  ok
 Sent at 11:58 AM on Friday
 Robyn:  http://techticker.net/2009/04/17/sydney-educators-networking-group/
 Sent at 2:48 PM on Friday
 me:  ACCESS DENIED
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Category: “Humor/Jokes”
check out the category !!!!!!!
lol……very worth blogging about !
 Sent at 2:54 PM on Friday
 Robyn:  good grief
must be the ticker part
 me:  lol
either that or I’m in the completely wrong workplace…

DER : End Of An Era ?

A shamless lift from Graham Wegner’s site though, nonetheless, a poignant moment in solidarity as we contemplate just what the heck was that promise ?…….. we so tenderly poised our voting 2008 pen over.

I even dedicated a whole category to it in this ramble of a blog.

I reckon that never has there been a time more pertinent, more urgent, more useful, more timely point to embrace and build a super connected community of learners who’s access to whatever they choose to get is heavily informed by the very educators whom we seem to respect less than the local larrikin lawyer.

Geoff Lubich, Leo Gaggl, Craig Lubich and I are exploring in our own small way some aspects of how to bring that connected learning journey through and with a mobile hive-mind in tow. It sure is a learning curve as we build and forge EDUPOV.

Open Everything : The Rolling Gallop

[ image : sridgway ]

I met Mark Pesce a couple of years back and he had been booted from one job and was courting a thousand others.

He’s right….of course.

How the f…. can we convince huge beaucratic environments to do anything more than lock down learning further and put more roadblocks in place with ICT’s ? Open the doors and maybe using the commercial brilliance of the web some say.

Here’s some more on what he is stirring up here in the land downunder.

Connected, challenging, futurist.