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Challenge and opportunity in future of education
Last night the Tertiary Education Union hosted a public forum in Dunedin on the future of tertiary education. The speakers were Phil Ker, Prof Vernon Squire, Logan Edgar, David Clark, Metiria Turei and TEU’s Sandra Grey. As always Aaron Hawkins did a great job of chairing. Here are my notes: Phil Ker talked about the […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
Sustainable Community Enterprise
August 7, 2012
I’ve been working with an inspiring learner Joe Davy. Here’s our presentation in support of proposal to establish a Sustainable Community Enterprise within Otago Polytechnic. Community sustainableenterprise from Samuel Mann
Posted in: Education for Sustainability, Otago Polytechnic
TikiTouring around the capstone
May 30, 2012
(update: here are the pictures from the launch). In a first for Maori tourism a free Maori visitor app to the lower South Island is being launched this Friday. KUMA, (Te Kupeka Umaka Māori ki Araiteuru) the Māori business network for the lower South Island is launching a free app linked to the recent project […]
Sustainable computing on the radio (and Pod)
May 30, 2012
I run a weekly sustainability-focussed radio show “Sustainable Lens: resilience on radio“. At CHI 2012 I took the opportunity to record conversations with an amazing group of colleagues working at the intersection of sustainability and technology. The shows are scheduled for the next six weeks: May 31st: Dr Bill Tomlinson (these links to their homepages, […]
Posted in: Sustainable Lens
Design for developing scientific inquiry
May 22, 2012
At CHI recently I met with Michael Gubbels who is a graduate student in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland. Michael and his colleagues are working on SINQ: Scientific INQuiry Learning using Social Media. This is exciting work. Promoting the process of scientific inquiry in this manner is aligned with the PISA study’s Green […]
Posted in: design
Computing for Sustainability 
August 9, 2012
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