Digital Colonisers – not what Prensky meant.

Sitting here at the Duxton in Perth while Marc Prensky engages us with his ideas on the “New Paradigm”. Predicated on the notion that the majority of approaches to current education are not created with the modern learner in mind, these assumptions and assertions filter through:

Digital Natives – grew up in the digital world – [...]

More on Grip, Fix, Turn

I doubt you’ll find the phrase “grip, fix, turn” anywhere except in my recent writing and the transcript of the speech I deliverd at the 2006 Drama Australia conference in Sydney.
The turn of phrase was intended to invoke the spirit of the Mac campaign a few years ago – “Rip, Mix, Burn” that seemed to [...]

Inaugural post

Well, I’ve been back in Perth for a few weeks now after delivering my keynote at the Drama Australia “Turning the Tides” conference.
I was presenting on Monday morning and was first up – there were quite a few latecomers as the conference dinner was held on the Sunday evening.
My topic was This drama is [...]