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Comment on Social Moodle by Misha

Misha — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:54:01 +0000

I am currently trying to create a research community, and the main hub will be our Moodle area. So I will watch your progress with the Social Moodle idea closely. Moodle forums do not seem to be utilised for collaboration and socialising, so I am looking for other ways to use the site for this.

Comment on WAG policy: Delivering community learning for Wales by company offshore

company offshore — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:04:05 +0000

………March 9th 2011 by Graham Attwell……………..I have been doing some thinking recently on the use of technology for learning in Small and Medium Enterprises SMEs . Some six or seven years ago we did a project on this finding that although there was much use of technology for informal learning there was very little awareness take up or implementation of elearning systems in SMEs the book of the project is available on our publications page ..Since then there has been considerable public expenditure in Europe encouraging the enhanced use of technology for learning.

Comment on WAG policy: Delivering community learning for Wales by business

business — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:55:15 +0000

Comment on Hedge Schools: Lessons from the Past? by Terry Loane

Terry Loane — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:26:29 +0000

I am glad you enjoyed the presentation, Paul. I am interested that you drew parallels between hedge schools and the origins of the WEA. I had not thought of this connection, but I think it is very valid.

I have just followed your link to the paper by Fernandez-Suarez and found it a fascinating read. What really interests me in this paper is the fact that it took a long time for the national system of education in Ireland to take over from the hedge schools. This was, at least in part, because of a perception by the Irish people that national schools were an attempt by the establishment to ‘dumb down’ the curriculum. The aim was to keep the lower classes in their place. As a member of the Catholic hierarchy at the time put it: \Too high an education will make the poor often times discontented and will unsuit them for following the plough or… building walls.\ This sounds to me remarkably like the sort of thinking that lies behind current government moves to limit funding to courses that are ‘economically useful’

Comment on Class Blogs by Karl Drinkwater

Karl Drinkwater — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:55:25 +0000

Great granny cloud video! Teaching at a distance helps to create global understanding without requiring huge amounts of travel.

Comment on Class Blogs by Tweets that mention RSC Wales Adult and Community Learning Blog -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention RSC Wales Adult and Community Learning Blog -- Topsy.com — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:06:19 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Helen H, RSC Wales. RSC Wales said: RT @HelenHRSC: A great blog post from @paulbrichardson about blogging http://blogs.rsc-wales.ac.uk/acl/2011/01/22/class-blogs/ [...]

Comment on Changing Technologies, Changing Practice by Paul Richardson

Paul Richardson — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:58:36 +0000

Hi Dougald. Thanks very much for your comment, and I am sorry about the delay in responding…. Absolutely there are ways in which educationalists overlook kinds of teaching/learning which don’t sufficiently resemble what happens on schools and colleges. It is called ‘informal learning’. But the educational community has a number of problems with this at the moment. One is in terms of definition: it is very hard to say when someone is learning, and with some very loose definitions the answer tends to be ‘all the time’, which really reduces the power of the concept. Alternatively, if you limit the idea to ‘courses’, or the like, you are also losing something. But it would be easy to get bogged down in this. Personally, I think that the ‘citizen journalist’ and the informal learner sit very comfortably together, and may even be the same people. In some of the most creative learning environments, teachers and learners can readily swap roles, and I would expect that the reader/student of journalism could also make that step across to the other side in order to become a journalist. The tools are there, we just need to engage with the culture change.

Comment on Changing Technologies, Changing Practice by Paul Richardson

Paul Richardson — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:44:06 +0000

Hi Dougald. Thanks very much for your comment, and I am sorry for the delay in responding. Absolutely there are ways in which educationalists overlook kinds of teaching/learning which don’t sufficiently resemble what happens on schools and colleges. It is called ‘informal learning’. But the educational community has a number of problems with this at the moment. One is in terms of definition: it is very hard to say when someone is learning, and with some very loose definitions the answer tends to be ‘all the time’, which really reduces the power of the concept. Alternatively, if you limit the idea to ‘courses’, or the like, you are also losing something. But it would be easy to get bogged down in this. Personally, I think that the ‘citizen journalist’ and the informal learner sit very comfortably together, and may even be the same people. In some of the most creative learning environments, teachers and learners can readily swap roles, and I would expect that the reader/student of journalism could also make that step across to the other side in order to become a journalist. The tools are there, we just need to engage with the culture change.

Comment on Changing Technologies, Changing Practice by RSC Wales Teaching and Learning Blog

RSC Wales Teaching and Learning Blog — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:42:10 +0000

[...] It may be useful to look at technology use from different angles (as described in a recent blog post by Paul Richardson), and important to respect differing points of view • Ask teachers [...]

Comment on Young People and the Internet by running tights

running tights — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:29:16 +0000

Young people are using Internet mostly and some of them are addicted to using it that they can not live without Internet. It is good to use Internet for learning, knowing something new and for good purpose but if we use it more over limit and for worst purpose then it may possible that it can give bad impact also.