Well, here it is – the talk I ended up giving in Tasmania. It wasn’t quite the doozy I was hoping for and as always my nerves got the better of me, but it seemed to go down well if the after talk discussion is anything to go by.
Sunshine are just about to head out and see a friend for dinner and a Kubrick movie, so I might just paste some notes I typed up on the plane back home. I will pad these notes out some more tomorrow.
NOTES:
Some URLS I picked up at the conference
MOVIES
- Exile – Black and white made in Tasmania
BOOKS
- Pemulwuy – About the NSW wars
- Henry Reynolds – Fate of a Free People
- Richard Flannagan – The Unknown Terrorist
- Richard Florida – The Creative Class
TO DO
- Look up Ireland’s plain English initiative
- Look up Meyer’s Key Competencies
- French have a large RPL system
NOTES
- Hypothetical
- Too many cooks
- Free education – where did all the money go?
- Industrial training for a post industrial age
- Ecological (and to a large extent social) sustainability totally absent from the dialog
- The new speak – participation vs in work
- Enterprise vs education institution
- Survey of Tas Innovation
- Measuring firms of 5 or more likely misses Tasmania’s largest industry (small business)
- Small business would likey be the more innovative sector (tourism, design, culture, entertainment, media production, architects, politicians, NGOs, RTOs, volunteers)
- What is innovation to the survey?
- Does it include adoption of computers and digital inormation systems? Is that innovation?
- Misses the brain that has already drained from Tasmania
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June 2, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Sarah Stewart
Enjoyed your talk even though it took ages to download. cheers Sarah
June 3, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Chris Harvey
Good job, a friend that works in primary school was telling me that they use phpmotion as kind of internal youtube, apparently theres a module that allows them to store youtube videos locally and in a way build a controlled youtube like system on their local network. PLumi looks interesting too.
http://blog.plumi.org/
http://phpmotion.com
June 11, 2008 at 11:40 am
teemul
Leigh. I think you are making a mistake in here. You make generalization out from your own experience.
Google, YouTube and Wikipedia are maybe your primary “education providers”, but I do not see that this would be the case with the rest of the world.
The sad truth is that the most successful education provider of our time is not Internet service providers, but the TV channels. I do not see why Google, YouTube or Wikipedia would be anyhow better than FOX, NBC or BBC. Actually, to be honest BBC is pretty good, and so is Wikipedia.
There is not short cut to quality education, although access to information helps. The idea of informal learning with the Web is tempting, I agree, but without the high level learning skills, got from somewhere else, it doesn’t work. To get these learning skills you basically need bandwidth available today only in when people meet F2F. Google, YouTube and Wikipedia are lousy educators.
Good talk anyway.
June 11, 2008 at 1:51 pm
leighblackall
Hi Teemu, of course you are right, and I thought I recognised this by qualifying my statement with a look at the woeful connection statistics in Tasmania 68% disconnected! Also, remembering that the talk was for Skills Tasmania – who focus on tertiary education and training, and so the initial skills for using the Internet effectively should be coming from the primary and secondary education sectors… *should* but without the connections to Internet outside of school, people are not getting the opportunity to put those skills to use outside the school context. Also, I did read somewhere recently that for NZ broadband users, there time on Internet had surpassed TV time..
Thanks for your comment, and for pointing out what is a very relevant issue that should be more closely examined in my perhaps over stated enthusiasm for Internet or networked learning.
June 25, 2008 at 2:36 am
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