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Chris Goldspink (Incept Labs): Your worldview shapes your teaching

Posted on May 21, 2015 by CIC Editor

Whether higher education or K-12, one of the greatest challenges in shifting how we teach is shifting teachers’ mindsets. Ruth Crick and I have a long-standing collaboration with Chris Goldspink at Incept Labs, Sydney. Chris brings expertise in the use of analytical tools to make visible the worldviews that practitioners hold. His findings argue that what educators do is grounded in their fundamental conceptions of knowledge, learning and teaching: in short, their epistemologies. Moreover, shi...
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CfP: Learning Analytics for C21 Competencies

Posted on May 18, 2015 by simon

CfP: Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies Special Issue Editors: Simon Buckingham Shum & Ruth Crick (University of Technology Sydney) Full call for Special Issue submissions: http://bit.ly/jlac21 A strategic educational response to a world of constant change is to focus explicitly on nurturing the skills and dispositions which equip learners to cope with novel, complex situations, assessed under authentic conditions. Thus, even if we do not know what the future holds, we can be ...
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Dispositional Learning Analytics @High School

Posted on February 17, 2015 by CIC Editor

As part of CIC's mission to prototype analytics and learning futures, we are working with the High Schools — who are of course the providers of the next generation of UTS students. In close partnership with Ruth Deakin Crick (CIC Visiting Professor in 2014), we are developing a systemic form of action research building on Ruth's experience in educational research, Simon's work in analytics, and educational improvement science concepts developed by Tony Bryk at the Carnegie Foundation for the Ad...
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Learning Analytics for 21st Century Competencies

Posted on January 13, 2015 by CIC Editor

CIC’s Simon Buckingham Shum and Ruth Deakin Crick (CIC Visiting Professor last year) are editing a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Learning Analytics, which seeks to bring together leading examples of how we can evidence 21st century competencies using Learning Analytics approaches. This is a short version of the full call for submissions [pdf] A strategic educational response to a world of constant change is to focus explicitly on nurturing the skills and dispositions which equip learners...
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New Book: Knowledge Art

Posted on December 20, 2014 by simon

A new book has just been published, as part of the Human-Centred Informatics series (Morgan Claypool), edited by Jack Carroll. Constructing Knowledge Art An Experiential Perspective on Crafting Participatory Representations This book is about how people (we refer to them as practitioners) can help guide participants in creating representations of issues or ideas, such as collaborative diagrams, especially in the context of Participatory Design (PD). At its best, such representations can rea...
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Constructing Knowledge Art: new book

Posted on October 29, 2014 by simon

Tweet A new book has just come out as part of the Human-Centred Informatics series (Morgan Claypool), edited by Jack Carroll. Constructing Knowledge Art: An Experiential Perspective on Crafting Participatory Representations As many of you will know, Al Selvin is a close colleague and friend in New York, whose PhD research with me is the heart of the book’s story. Al is passionate about understanding the ability that some people have (including himself), of being able to add value to a group’...
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