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Personally, I’m not a grammar Nazi. Well actually, I am a bit of stickler… But I’m more in the descriptivist camp rather than on the prescriptionist side of things. What I mean is that I’m more interested in what people actually say and do rather than what some stupid rule says. Latin grammar rules just…

6 reasons why you should back Kevin Kelly’s Graphic Novel on KickStarter

Jul 16, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Book review, Creativity, Kevin Kelly, Kick Starter, Kickstarter, Science Fiction

I just joined Kickstarter the other day and I backed a couple of projects. It didn’t cost me very much money and I got a real… kick out of it. Now… Kevin Kelly – who is one of my heroes and probably one of the world’s most amazing technology commentators has produced a graphic novel.…

Now playing: My very own Salman Khan Style video tutorials

Jul 12, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Business model generation, Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Khan Academy, Literacy and Numeracy, Online learning, Productivity, Professional Development, Qualifications, Technology, Video, work

Well it’s taken me all day to get there, but I’ve managed to master what I think is the basics of being able to produce my own Khan Academy style video tutorials. Actually, they’re not exactly tutorials yet, that part will come later. They’re just quick discussions with me scribbling in the background. Currently, I’m…

Grown Up Digital

May 22, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Book review, Business model generation, Creativity, Economy, Edtech, Education, Literacy and Numeracy, Professional Development, work

How the net generation is changing your world Don Tapscott undertook some research back in the late 20th century (1997…) and wrote it up in a book called Growing Up Digital. It was a book about what it meant for the generation that his kids were in – to be growing up in a digital…

Software will eat education Part 2 – Or what I actually really want from an online education platform

May 17, 2012

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Literacy and Numeracy, Uncategorized

So I already said what I don’t want. But i’m still having a hard time articulating what I actually want from an online learning and teaching platform. It’s easier to define it in terms of the negatives. It’s much harder to come up with a feature list because I don’t really know the full extent…

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