#digelt2015

  The Curator

Having a background in museums, I’m well familiar with the term “curate”. In a museum sense, the curator is the subject specialist and chief story-teller. By the end of the 1980s, the museum community was finally questioning its role as gatekeeper and chief filterer of information.  In countries such as mine, Aotearoa New Zealand, or in the United States or Canada for example, some…

Making Learning in a Binary Landscape

“Arbor Day at Rata School 1st August 1894” Original image held in archives at teara.govt.nz

I rather like this photo, a small rural school community planting trees to commemorate Arbor Day in a vast deforested landscape. Today Rata is a busy New Zealand farming community. All the kids that attend that school will have access to tablets, the school will have WIFI, a great library, interactive…

Walking backwards into the future, looking at the past.

Our early connections influence how we engage later in life.

Where we come from is what roots us. It’s the road map we use for life, and to which, if we’re smart, we’ll keep adding to with streets and neighbourhoods as we grow.

We have a saying at home, that we walk backwards into the future. Learning is changing, our communities are changing, but some essential elements remain true and…