Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Australian Technologies Curriculum for Comment
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has issued a draft "Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Technologies" paper for comment by 3 June 2012. This was prepared by Professor Lyndon Anderson and the Technologies Advisory Group, to set the direction for technologies curriculum to years 12 in Australian schools, with release of a final document by the end of 2013. Unfortunately I could find little actual content in the document to comment on. This contrasts with "Computing: A curriculum for schools", and other documents prepared by the UK Computing at School Working Group, which contain concrete proposes for education, supported by the British Computer Society, Google and Microsoft.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Malaysia, Turkey and Greece - Technology and Travel
From mid May to June 2008 I traveled to Malaysia, Turkey and Greece. Highlights were a nighttime train from Greece to Turkey, ferries to the Greek Islands, opera at the Athens Acropolis, attending a Greek wedding and visiting the new Istanbul Museum of The History of Science and Technology in Islam. This was mostly for a holiday, but along the way I attended a corporate governance conference in Malaysia, presented at the World Congress on Information Technology, looked at ICT Education in Malaysia and gave a seminar on how to set up the Tsunami warning system for the Eastern Mediterranean.
Other travelogues:
Europe:
- Rhodes, Greece, July 2008
- Marmaris, Turkey, July 2008
- Istanbul by Public Transport, July 2008
- Istanbul Museum of The History of Science and Technology in Islam, July 2008
- Cambridge, Brussels, Berlin, and Hamburg by Bicycle and High Speed Train, 2005.
- Berlin By Bending Bicycle, 2004.
- Stockholm by Slow Boat and Fast Train, 2001
- UK: England, Cornwall and Stonehenge, 2000
- London to Paris By Eurostar, 2000
- Cambridge live from a Double Decker Bus, 1996
- London to Rome by Train, 1994
Asia and Pacific
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2008
- India, 2005
- Beijing By Bending Bicycle, China 2003
- Coming of Information Age in Samoa, 2005
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