Hungry Beast – refugee stories

If you missed last night’s episode of Hungry Beast on ABC TV, here is a video of 3 Australians telling their story about their journey to Australia as refugees. I dare anyone not to be moved by this.
[Sorry the video link didn't work - go to the Hungry Beast website to view the segment.]

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“How does a lion’s roar go so far?”

That’s a fair question that Ben, aged 5, asked his teachers Romina and Nicole.
I have written before about the wonderful work Nicole Kolibac and Romina De Grazia do in bringing out the best in their students- and I continue to be in awe of the new and exciting learning that evolves as a result of [...]

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10 reasons why schools should be using web 2

Books will soon be obsolete in schools…our school system will be completely changed in the next 10 years.
Thomas Edison in 1913, commenting on the positive impact of motion pictures (new technology then!!). Shock! Horror! Books didn’t disappear and our education system didn’t descend into chaos.
While checking out the Successful Language Learners Ning (and that’s for [...]

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Primary school, but not as we know it.

Sorry. Just finished watching the latest Star Trek movie on DVD. Got bit carried away with the title to this post.
Just get a load of these gems that have come out of a recent 6 year long research process, the Cambridge Primary Review,  into the state of primary education in the UK.

Primary schools that get [...]

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Leunig says it all……

and still the 78 Sri Lankan asylum seekers languish off the Indonesian coast
as the lame Australian government tries to persuade New Zealand to take them
to no avail
78….
desperate people

Leunig cartoons at Sydney Morning Herald

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mlearning…not m&m learning!

Found about about mlearning today. By accident. That’s what I love about using the internet! The place you end up, is nowhere near the destination you first desired!!
Mlearning is learning via the use of mobile devices such as iphones, ipods, mobile phones,……basically any mobile device. Thanks to the Ulearn conference materials, I stumbled across materials [...]

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A refugee story worth telling

Was the irony lost on Peter Garret yesterday when he announced the winner of Australia’s richest literary prize? I caught a glimspe of the announcement on ABC news last night and nearly choked. Garret spoke about the importance of Australian literary tradition and mumbled something about the value of hearing stories like Nam Le’s. [...]

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