I love my work. When I say I love my work I mean I REALLY love my work. Creating and growing our business is so incredibly fulfiling. We develop our own content and projects, and we get to work with amazing clients on their projects. I’m working with skilled and talented people, visionary people. I can’t believe I’m so lucky to do the work I do everyday. Continue reading Sometimes I miss teaching so much, it hurts
Tag: The Critical Classroom
Tourette’s Syndrome Awareness Week
A short post this week, as I’ll be busy on Facebook and Twitter sharing resources and links about Tourette’s Syndrome for Australian Tourette’s Syndrome Awareness Week.
#iXchat each Wednesday
It might seem strange given that you can only send 146 characters at a time, but it turns out that Twitter is a pretty awesome tool for “chats”. A Tweet-Chat is an organised discussion around a specific issue or topic. In education there are #ozengchat #blacked chats etc. Continue reading #iXchat each Wednesday
Django Unchained
Have just returned from seeing Django Unchained and I don’t know what the hell I was expecting, but it was terrible. Not terrible in a “Independence Day/ Airforce One” way. It was an amazing, beautiful and clever film. But it was disturbing and distressing. Continue reading Django Unchained
Summer is …
Summer is school holidays, heat, swimming, family. In recent years, the end of summer is also this …. Continue reading Summer is …
Kai Davis – an amazing young poet, performer and thinker
Kai Davis.. I know little about her apart from these few YouTube clips. One site suggests she’s not even twenty years old yet. Continue reading Kai Davis – an amazing young poet, performer and thinker
Indigenous Literacy Day
Today is Indigenous Literacy Day. I forgot. Actually I didn’t forget. Anita Heiss, author extraordinaire has been blogging, Facebooking and fundraising it like crazy the past two weeks. Continue reading Indigenous Literacy Day
Racism: What’s it all about?
A couple of weeks ago on the ABC’s Insiders programme, there was a discussion about racism and the results of a racism survey that had been conducted by the University of Western Sydney. There was some discussion about the results of the research within the media and amongst politicians on what these results say about Australian society.
Continue reading Racism: What’s it all about?
TED Talks – The Sir Ken Robinson Collection (so far)
Here are the Sir Ken Robinon lectures that I love (so far – there will be more!). Continue reading TED Talks – The Sir Ken Robinson Collection (so far)
TED Talk – Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
Creating mathematics education that helps students think.