Christmas Landcare – community based self-care I am sitting on an old bench on my sister’s kitchen veranda, a private moment of self-care before a busy day. The old, now disused, pool on my left, vegetable gardens and water tanks…
The Secret Ingredient
I love that scene in Kung Fu Panda. It is the end of the movie, and the team, including Po, have just defeated Tai Lung the fearsome snow leopard. Po is about to leave the village when his adoptive father,…
Music a symbol for the differentiated classroom
There is something magical about attending a classical music concert. Oops, did I just lose you? Hang in there, I am going somewhere with this! You enter the concert hall and find your seat. People are murmuring quietly. It’s all…
Curriculum Innovation in HE
Exploring New Approaches in Teacher Education to Enhance Learning and Improve Practice Working with academics in planning curriculum innovation across often unfamiliar knowledge domains, I spend much of my initial time endeavoring to understand different conceptual and methodological organizing frameworks for course development.…
The Coffee Principle of Differentiation
Yes, it is true – I drink a lot of coffee. And so, I also buy a lot of coffee. My daughter always complains I drink too much, I buy too much! (really?) But it would appear she is right.…
Proposing a Framework for Online Learning
What is an acceptable model of ‘online’ that will improve student outcomes? Proposed here, is a 3-part model of online learning pedagogy, to guide HE practitioners adopting elearning at a systems level.
Do not touch!
I love the challenge when told that online or blended learning will not work in a particular subject! Read how I challenge academics to think outside their comfort zone.
A Fourth Way in Higher Ed?
Exploring the use of Hargreaves & Shirley’s Fourth Way in Higher Education, within an action research framework to inspire change in university teaching and learning.
Freedom to learn
When learning is not confined or defined by space or place I delivered an education sociology lecture in 2008, whilst teaching at the University of Tasmania, from the back of the lecture theatre. I sat about 6 rows from the…
When not all students learn
Did you ever have a time when differentiating your classroom didn’t work? Yes, it happens. Sometimes there are times when it appears that ‘differentiation failed’. I want to share you my story. A tale about two young lads. Now, I…