Talks and Presentations

I said last week that I anticipated a lot of sitting and listening when we met in the University of East London for a day conference about outdoor education / learning: Lessons from Near and Far.  It was, however, much...

If so minded, you can follow the official outpourings of WEEC 8 on Twitter: @WEEC2015  – but you really should be outside.  Here are a few of the highlights so far (and my indented comments ...) Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson talks about...

Another well-written post from the Daly News landed in my in-box last week.  It's focus was how economics has ignored thermodynamics over the years and centuries.  I touched on the issues it raises in my talk at Cambridge last week...

Well, with TED, and in particular Johan Rockström.  Here he is in 2010.  I was alerted to this by the Independent the other day with an article by Christopher Hooton about a paper published by Rockström in Science in January 2015. The Indy's title was stark:...

I wondered this when I was at the recent seminar on Designing & Managing Sustainable University Estates that was hosted by NCUP – the National Conference of University Professors. I came to the conclusion that a 'concatenation' might be appropriate, given how much...

I watched a TEDx talk by Jeremy Howard on deep learning and the rise of the machines.  You can see it here.  Prepare to be just a little bit impressed.  It might have been coincidence (or media-smart machines at work), but...

I was worrying away last week about the plethora of phrases that begin "global ...".  Global citizenship is a prime example.  Then, what should cross by desktop but this: Dear All, Please find attached an invitation to the next DERC seminar:...

I had hoped that no matter how dull the seminar in Birmingham last Friday might turn out to be, the samosas would be brilliant.  Not so; the samosas were dull: flaccid, pasty confections; happily, the rest of the lunch on...

I'm in Birmingham at the "Children, their World, their Education" seminar organised by Tide~ global learning, the Cambridge Primary Review Trust, and Birmingham City Council.  The blurb for the event says: Children and young people are growing up into an...

If you’ve not seen Hans Rosling speaking about the magic of the washing machine on this TED talk, you really should.  These machines produce books, you know.  It's instructive to listen to the audience's nervous laughter, as it realises where the...