Educational Development, Otago Polytechnic, NZ
Leigh Blackall’s core interest is in education and networked learning. He works in Education Development for the Otago Polytechnic and gives presentations and workshops on networked learning to many educational organisations in Australia and New Zealand. Leigh maintains the Teach and Learn Online Web Log and facilitates the Teach and Learn Online eGroup. He also designs and develops educational resources.
Teaching is dead – long live learning
Regret having a $20,000 debt. And having had to move to another country.
My real teacher is the net.
Graphics etc in flickr …
Here’s the teaching is dead slides into a video on Blip.tv, and YouTube, slides on flickr and bubbleshare.
http://teachandlearnonline.blogspot.com/
http://teachandlearnonline.blogspot.com/2006/10/cappie-wood.html
Well deserved acknowledgment of Greg Whitby. My blog posts ….
For those of you planning on spending millions, why aren’t you considering the free archive.org
I think we’re guilty of taking a new medium and moulding the old stuff and patting ourselve’s on the back OWTTE ) or words to that effect
takes obvious humble pride in challenging the ‘old school’ approach and gives us permission to us also share the tragedy of what is occurring within education – filtering one quick example. How appalling and overwhelming the absence of what should essentially be common sense is. Baby boomers running education now unaware of Ivan Illich (Deschooling Society) who spoke of a learning environment that reflects the internet and personalised learning.
Really I just want to sit and listen, take it in -
Leigh just reflected my thoughts of – can’t wait for when we don’t have to be burdened by laptops – something else to access the internet or something like the internet.
Go to Leigh’s blog, read, comment, think etc – highly valuable perspective that demanded greater courage that I have. Thanks Leigh
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Teaching Generation Z » Is Idealism Dead?
// Oct 21, 2006 at 2:09 am
[...] She felt entirely comfortable and the information was familiar – but for most of the audience, Siemens’ concepts were relevatory. And while I appreciate the notes on each session, I can now skim over them because I can get a much better virtual front seat and instead download the audio, load up the accompanying images and be a networked part of the audience. I did this for Leigh Blackall’s session – I timed his image stack to his talk. While listening, I thought that I could sense a touch of nervousness in his voice, possibly because he sensed his message would be confronting and unnerving for some of his audience. (Please note my artistic license here.) All I was missing was being actually face to face, reading his facial expression and body language for myself to confirm my impressions. Personally, I really enjoyed his presentation and found his ideas and content to be thought provoking and confirming of some of the things I’ve suspected about learning and education in general. Leigh talked about his regret for the high price of his education (twenty grand in HECS fees) and how now his learning is fuelled by the network. This resonates with me to a degree (no pun intended). I was lucky enough to get my tertiary education for nothing in the mid-80’s but the government shifted the goal posts thereafter and so I’ve never gone back to build on my original qualification. So in a formal sense and by traditional standards, I guess that makes me undereducated but Leigh’s model of Networked Learning really rings true for me. I vividly remember being roundly criticised by a then friend from my teachers’ college days for not doing the extra year to upgrade to a B.Ed – I still feel embarrassed admitting it here. But life in the classroom seemed to be worlds away from the lectures, tutorials and essays of the tertiary institution. So I never went back – life seemed to keep throwing up reasons not to, although I have never stopped learning. Now, it is extremely unlikely that I ever will go back to a formal higher education institution unless some generous benefactor was to pick up the tab. [...]
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