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Information, innovation and meaning

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Photo by Steve Wheeler - Entrance to the Hotel Salomon de Rothschild Last week you would have discovered me in the cellar of a French palace - the stylish Hotel Salomon de Rothschild , not a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The classic old building was transformed into a hi-tech conference venue for European Innovation Day.

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Sugata Mitra - Charlatan or genius?

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These are the radical thoughts of Professor Sugata Mitra, the doyen of innovative education and a figure of some controversy. Whatever your views on this shade of auto-didacticism - and there have been some vociferous criticisms , do watch the video interview I did with him at this year''s EDEN conference , and then make your own mind up.

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Digitally connecting the future

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Photo by Steve Wheeler I joined the press pack in Paris last week to attend two events sponsored by electronics giant Huawei. The first was European Innovation Day, an event held at the elegant Hotel Salomon de Rothschild building that showcased innovative uses of digital technology in education, health, industry and culture.

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What the duck?

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Photo by Steve Wheeler (Duck by Denise Hudson ) If I didn't know any better I would believe in synchronicity. We enjoyed an animated and challenging keynote speech from Graham Brown-Martin at the LPI's Learning Live conference in London earlier today. Let me elaborate. I'm just sorry I couldn't be in two places at once. What the duck?

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Confessions of a teacher

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Photo from Wikimedia Commons During the life of the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference (PELeCon), we tried to be innovative, introducing new features each of the ten years the event ran. One of the most innovative (and perhaps controversial) was the inclusion of a confessional booth during the final PELeCon.

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The EDEN interviews: Melissa Highton

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Melissa's blog posts and other content reveal some clearly innovative approaches to the open use of content in higher education. Following her keynote at the EDEN annual Conference in Budapest, she sat down with me to discuss some of her ideas about open content, distance learning and open licensing. Unported License.

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Theatre of dreams

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Photo by Sean MacEntee on Flickr Old Trafford. The conference is on midsummer day - 21 June. A click on the conference website will tell you that the themes of the event are close to my own heart: “ The programme will focus on getting industry and education to work together to harness technology and put learning first.

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