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Working at Scale with KICD
Whoa.. it’s been a minute since I’ve have had a chance to write, reflect and post anything here, and the holidays are a great time for it. One of the coolest and challenging projects I had the opportunity to work on in 2019 was the Kenya Education Cloud. In late 2018, the Kenya Institute of…
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Africa #PLAY!
Last month I attended the first ever Africa Play conference in Pretoria, South Africa hosted by the Department of Basic Education, UNICEF South Africa, ADEA and the LEGO Foundation…it was playful to say the least. The conference organizers (I suspect LEGO in particular) went big and bold with the production. There were playgrounds with various…
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Education = Radical
A few weekends ago I participated in a Wikipedia editathon at the Interference Archive, in support of their newest exhibit “Free Education! The Free University of New York, Alternate U, and Learning Liberation”. It closes January 27th and is one not to be missed. The curation includes wonderful archival documents from various education projects primarily across…
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mEducation Alliance: The Year of the Educator!
The focus of this year’s mEducation Alliance Symposium was “the role of the teacher and community educator, and how technology can provide greater support for their professional development, motivation, networking, and delivery of instruction in traditional and non-traditional educational settings.” I was embarrassingly excited when the announcement was made a few months ago. I’m not sure…
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Teachers Aren’t Technophobic…We Need to Develop Better PD.
Reposting this from ICTworks : ) I can’t count the number of times I’ve been in a discussion that quickly shifts from a failing ICT for Education initiative, to the assumed root cause: “teacher technophobia”. There is a widely held belief that education technology interventions could be successful if not for the resistance from teachers…
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