Innovation
Thinking about ICT to enhance meaningful learningHMCConferenceforLibrariansAldenhamSchool12thNovember2015
DrNickDennis,BSc,MSc,PhDDeputyHead,BerkhamstedBoys/DeputyHead(Academic)
NottinghamHighSchool
&constraints
The MOOC movement cooperates with the tendency of mechanisation, indeed it strengthens the tendency, and by its promise of utility, efficiency, uniformity, and the expedited delivery of uniform goods, it discourages more complex thinking about the content and aims
of education.
“”David Bromwich, the Sterling Professor of English at Yale
University, ‘Trapped in the Virtual Classroom’ New York Review of Books, July 2015
What are the foundational assumptions underpinning our current approach?
Which might be no longer valid as we look to make our constraint beautiful?
What are the processes and routines we habitually use? Which parts of them are integral and necessary, and which could
we relax and explore alternatives to?
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