Jonathan surveying possible sites for his ice rink.
Image shared with permission from Jonathan's Instagram profile.
Welcome back to "View from the Edge" for the 2017-2018 year! We are back and better than ever with three advisors and nineteen students...record numbers for our humble program. WHOO! 😀
This year we are going to be mixing things up to keep pushing the "edge" of our work (sorry, had to go for the pun). For now, though, enjoy some new voices using our classic approach.
First off: Jonathan B. joins the ranks of Edge with the idea of building an ice rink on the campus of The Kildonan School. In his Instagram profile linked below, you can see him surveying possible locations in advance of developing a proposal for our administration. Take a look (and follow if you are interested)!
CEO and one of the founders of Epic Group PLC, Donald Clark (@DonaldClarke63) is committed to the idea that #technology does - and must - play a role in education (passages taken from Clark's bio).
Having spent "30 years experience in online learning, games,
simulations, social media and mobile learning projects," Clark had this
to say about technology in education during a 2012 @TEDxGlasgow event:
The real scalability in education comes with the Internet because it
gives us a world of digital replication for free. A world of digital
abundance where some aspects of learning content are available for
anyone, anywhere, at any time. It absolutely frees us from the tyranny
of time and location. ... And that's the trick: freeing education from a
place, from a specific time.
Now if - as is clearly the case - the Internet and #socialmedia
can lead young people to change the tyrannical and corrupt
governments, can we really say that social media will have no role in
education? How do you think those kids in Tahrir Square (@3alTahrir) learned to avoid tear gas by using Pepsi Cola (@pepsi)? How do you think those revolutions arose first through blogging, then through Facebook, then through Twitter, then through YouTube,
and the ubiquity of mobile devices? We'd be fools to ignore the
pedagogic lessons that are right in front of our eyes, politically and
in terms of education.
What do you think? How can we use social media outlets such as
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube educationally? Please post in the
comments below.
Description of image: Various social media channels. Picture located at cdn.socialmediaexaminer.com. Kildonan and its IP program claim no ownership over the above graphic.
CEO and one of the founders of Epic Group PLC,