Insights

What Does Learning Mean?

A great 4 minute video has been posted by students at Kansas University.  200 of them put together a wiki about learning and the cultural clash between the way they do things and the traditional lecture theatre and chalk board environment they still inhabit.  It is on YouTube and you  can watch it here.
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Only a Week to Vote!

The Economist is running an online debate until the 26th October on the thorny topic of technology in education.  Sir John Daniel is arguing for the motion:   "This house believes that the continuing introduction of new technologies and new media adds little to the quality of most education."  and  Dr Robert Kozma of SRI is
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Advertising on the BBC!

I am sitting in the lobby of a hotel in Sao Paulo watching last night’s edition of Newsnight.  I have just scoured BBC News for what is going on round the world and checked out the sport. Increasingly this is becoming a hit and miss affair as more and more content (particularly video content) is
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Getting Back to Basics

‘A 2 percent economic growth rate for 15 years would increase the demand for executives by about a third. Meanwhile, supply is moving in the opposite direction: the number of US 35- to 44-year-olds will decline by 15 percent from 2000 to 2015. Companies must therefore make talent management a top priority, create and perpetually
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Being a Double Outsider

I have just been interviewed by Ideal TV for a business programme going out in a couple of weeks.  Good interview proving, as I have always said, that the same issues are relevant all over the globe.  The point is,  I had to have full make-up for the interview and I have been asked to
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Crikey!

I have mentioned the online newspaper Crikey! before.  But to kick off the campaign for the Australian election that has been called for  Saturday 24th November, they have produced no 1 in a series of videos. You can check it out here.  But it captures the spirit of this election and its momentous possibilities. I
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POMS: the Final Solution

I have heard so many implausible explanation for why Australians call Brits "Poms".  But they do and it is ubiquitous. The most ludicrous is a reference to Pomegranates:  ie pasty Brits arrive in Australia and after two days in the sun look like the inside of a Pomegranate.  Totally implausible! Here is my explanation gleaned
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The BBC: Getting Back to the Values

What do you say about the current morass engulfing the Corporation?  Particularly when Jeff Randall has written superbly on the subject in Sunday’s Daily Telegraph in a piece entitled "All the BBC needs is Proper Management." ; and the Standard on Tuesday 9th led with the news of another 2800 plus job cuts on the
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Delta Garden

I was invited to launch the Delta Garden Project at SVT’s new regional office in Vaxjo.  It is a super building:  all open plan, two small studios,  and a terrific atmosphere.  What is more interesting is that the upper two floors are let to small media companies.  There are about 8 or 9 or them
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In the Taxi

I engaged my taxi-driver in conversation as we drove at 6.30 am from my hotel to Changi airport in Singapore.  ‘What do you do for a living?’, he asked. Always a difficult one, I did my best to explain.  He paused for 30 seconds and then said:  ‘Aah!  I understand, you talk for a living.’ 
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