I had the privelege this week of watching Sir Ken Robinsons "RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms" which is essential viewing for sense checking what online education should be aware of RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms is essential viewing...
...I attended a rather delightfully radical pitch from Donald Clark whos ideas are very similar to mine - a bit more divergant thinking is what we need.. what with governments inability to think its w3ay out of a wet paper bag currently...
I have a good mind as a free thinking individual to inspire (push) Boris Johnson with his City hat on, towards fighting the rather dull Govites fronm a City & Guilds perspective as to why the incumbency has sent out a meesage that vocational qualifications are less valuable in school, when the other element of governement is trying to rack up a squillion Apprenticeships? seems decidely counter intuitive from my good old fabian point of view... decidedly odd
Wednesday 1 February 2012
James Gee; Semiotic Domains and learning and literacy
I've just started getting to grips with this: I think the Semiotic Domain looks very similar to communities of practise, I wonder which came first, but essentially its the time old nerdy pursuit of all boys together in the motorcycle club, we all like motorbikes so we go to a club house where we can get to know us, the bike better and discuss how to adjust the Norton Comando clutch spring... the learning and literacies are expanded by the community and interest... watch this space I may have got this wrong..
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