In this episode I look at Ursula le Guin's 1986 article "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" and what it has to tell us about educational technology in the English classroom.
youtu.be/jReb6-VQ-xs
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In this episode I look at Ursula le Guin's 1986 article "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" and what it has to tell us about educational technology in the English classroom.
youtu.be/jReb6-VQ-xs
My Grade 8s having fun with Midsummer Night's Memes!
26.06.2025 04:59 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0So Bibi has dragged Trump into an awful war. So many will suffer in this evil crusade.
18.06.2025 07:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thinking of the USA today. I remember the raw fear of facing off against the Apartheid police force in the 1980s in Johannesburg. Peaceful protest works! Solidarity from South Africa!
11.06.2025 07:32 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The world needs more angry women! Absolutely! The world needs more Gretas!
11.06.2025 06:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0After a bit of a break, I'm back with a new episode of The DigiTeacher!
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Ramaphosa remained calm and dignified despite being ambushed by Trump. Then he fought back with a tag team effort. Yes, South Africa has crime and violence. No, we don't have a genocide. Wish Trump would worry about the real genocide!
22.05.2025 07:22 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Good riddance to bad rubbish!
14.05.2025 21:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I get that Wisconsin likes cheese, but one really ought to think about how weird one looks when wearing one before one wears one on one's head!
03.04.2025 04:51 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Here's a recording of a roundtable talk I gave last year on instructional design in computing education for the LCT Centre.
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Proud to be a South African standing up to Trump!
20.02.2025 17:54 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1But it seems our farmers don't want to go - they find America too racist and fascist!
10.02.2025 07:00 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1Thank you, Trump, for offering to take all our racist fascist countrymen. You are doing South Africa a favour.
08.02.2025 19:53 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1Solidarity with all Americans. We have faced our own state capture here and we are with you. Resist and persist.
06.02.2025 03:30 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐
30.01.2025 20:51 โ ๐ 7 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0There's s lot of this about!
23.01.2025 04:00 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A thought provoking read
22.01.2025 09:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Elon's neurodivergence is immaterial. He supports far right groups. If he looks like a fascist and sounds like a fascist and salutes like a fascist, he's not hiding what his politics are.
22.01.2025 09:21 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Signed up many new students for esports this term. Over half of the club is now grade 8s. Very promising going forward.
19.01.2025 07:14 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We are SO CLOSE to class consciousnessโฆ so closeโฆ bust still not close enough. ๐ฎโ๐จ
19.01.2025 07:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Well done, Matrics!
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TTT 12.11.2024 Conversation with Andrea Zellner
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Dropping my first podcast for 2025. Looking at assessment and feedback databases #EduSky #UKEdu #EduSkyZA
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Teaching - the only profession where people steal office supplies from Home to take to Work!
10.01.2025 05:42 โ ๐ 13 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0She crashed the economy alright!
09.01.2025 21:04 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Well said @seanhc.bsky.social
09.01.2025 21:03 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I am extremely dubious they are really close to real AGI. But I am worried about the hype turning everyone's heads and the over bold claims that will be made and read at face value.
08.01.2025 08:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's a race to the bottom!
08.01.2025 04:17 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0