Jason Newcombe

Jason Newcombe, Australia, K-12, Higher

An early and successful background in an engineering trade provided the motivation to pursue a career as an Secondary school educator. Graduating in 2000 with a Bachelor of Technology education with honours (2A) it was a personally and professionally defining period. It provided further motivation to pursue research to seek clarification in what I observed to be paradoxically an idiosyncratic, yet ill-defined and contested area of school curriculum.

I spent, five years in both public and independent/private secondary schools in Australia (including 12 months in a Special education unit) teaching manual arts and Industrial technology and design. I have since spent two years as an Associate lecturer at Southern Cross university-Coffs Harbour campus, where I delivered into a then innovative teacher education course in Technology Education.

I continue to occasionally work casually as a university tutor with my main efforts focused upon deeper and more sustaining (and enlightening), scholarly work toward completing my doctoral research. My research contributes to the work in technacy theory (holistic technological activity) with particular focus on judgment formation and sustainability.

Meta-Technacy
TECHNOLOGY; from nano to macro/global scales it shapes out reality in ordinary experience. Here find discussions, links, and other resources for thinking differently about technology to assist in forming more sustainable judgment - comments welcome.

Theme: technacy, design technology, STS, technology education, technology studies,
technology

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Martin Levins

Martin Levins, Australia, K-12 Education

Martin currently teaches and is Director of Information Technology at The Armidale School in Northern NSW, Australia. He’s keen on learning; both in helping others to learn and learning stuff himself.

He is a regular contributor to Australian Macworld where he writes the monthly Education column (which is podcast after the magazine comes out) and has been a regular writer and presenter at conferences in Australia and overseas.

He sees play as a really important part of learning (at least that's his excuse) and likes small schools because you get to do all sorts of interesting stuff.

Martin Levins - currently offline
I use this blog as a way for thinking through my ideas, and reporting and commenting on a range of speakers/reports/popular ideas.

Theme: ICT, technacy, education, reform