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Meerkats, Ostriches & The New Learning Ecosystem

25th November 2014 by admin in Blog | 2 Comments

Today marked the last day of my trip to Australia. As ever, it’s been a great visit, full of learning opportunities. It’s varied from delivering project-based learning training in schools, to talking to parents about their kids’ work prospects, to the Learning Frontiers programme with AITSL. This morning I was asked to talk to an education leaders circle, sponsored by Telstra and expertly facilitated by Tony MacKay. My job was to set  the context for transforming education, not incrementally improving it. This is the gist of what I said: The quest for the silver bullet in education (as evidenced in …

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What Constitues An Education Worth Having?

4th August 2013 by admin in Blog | 2 Comments

There was an interesting article in yesterday’s Wall St Journal. The author, Amanda Ripley, was reporting on the huge private tutoring market in South Korea. Parents in that country now spend an astonishing $17bn, annually, on after-school coaching (increasingly delivered online). This got me thinking about the education Olympics that is PISA, and the phrase regularly used by our Australian colleagues, ‘an education worth having’. I like it because it makes you think about some fundamental issues around the purpose and value of national education systems. What actually constitutes an education worth having? Is it, as most politicians seem to …

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Enterprise, Creativity and Competence in Education – An Interview With Yong Zhao

25th March 2013 by admin in Blog | Leave a comment

Recently, I was privileged to be able to interview one of the most stimulating and original thinkers in education, Prof. Yong Zhao. The interview was published in Music Education Asia, and is re-presented here with their kind permission: “Leading thinker on educational policy and technology in education, Professor Yong Zhao, is a keynote speaker at musiclearninglive!Asia, a groundbreaking new international conference which takes place for the first time in Singapore this October. Here he talks global competence, entrepreneurialism and creativity with Programme Director, David Price OBE. David Price: We’re really pleased you’ve agreed to be one of our keynote speakers at …

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