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LEARNing!

Actually, it’s about education, training and LEARNing. It’s for educators and teachers who are interested in making a real difference to the lives of their students, their colleagues and their organisations – basically, people who are interested in “doing business” differently in education.

People in education are often divided into two categories – “the thinkers” and “the doers”. We are also grouped into categories based on who we do business with – primary, secondary, tertiary. There are other classifications such as “teachers”, “administrators” and “support staff”. And, then…there’s the various disciplines or sub-sectors – mathematics, engineering, literature, ELT – to name but a few.

Traditionally, many of our discussions have been about “TEACHing”. The problem here is that these “conversations” have been based on a “design flaw” (Barr and Tagg, 1995) and “TEACHing” is still the dominant paradigm that governs our structures, practices and behaviours (the way we “do business”) – across all the classifications people have for us.

This “design flaw” confuses the means and ends in education – and keeps all of us apart.

What we need is more “thinking doers” who come together – across the lines that have been drawn in the sand (or the “schoolyard”) – to talk about “what really matters” in education.

LEARNing – student LEARNing, educator LEARNing, institutional LEARNing!

Finding your way around allthingslearning I’ve tried to keep the blog as crisp and clean as possible. On the main home page you’ll see the “title” of the blog. Just under the title you can see a number of headings. All these are “hot-linked” (in red) and will take you to some of my favourite blogs. For example, THE COMMITTED SARDINE. Say “hi” when you get there! Under these headings you will find the latest 3 postings from me (bit like newspaper stories). If you hit the (red) title of the post, it will open up as a single post. At the bottom of the post, you can move back and forth to the next posts by hitting the (arrow) buttons. At the bottom of the home page, you will see three columns. In the first, you can see me (my “evolution” - the cartoon is by my “big, little girl”) and a list of my latest “tweets”. In the second, you can see the of all my recent posts (and those of my guest-bloggers) and the “archive” of all my posts. In the last column, you can see the “top” posts on the site. Also, you’ll find the blue “follow” button. If you hit this, you can subscribe to the blog and you’ll get an automatic e-mail every time I add a new post. Easy-peasy, lemon-squezzy – do let me know if you have any comments or ideas to improve the blog: tonygurr@gmail.com Take care! P.S: Umut & Gizem - you are both “stars”!