The Education Revolution: I wish they would just stop already!
The education revolution is being widely talked about. We can’t go back to the old broken system now that we […]
Strange Days indeed!
To quote the great John Lennon, “Nobody told me there’d be days like these…Strange days indeed”.When I first heard about
Smartphones at school
I spent last week traveling around the Upper Hunter region of NSW with the Macquarie University LEAP Team. LEAP stands
Why are video games addictive?
Quite simply they are designed to be addictive. There are literally millions of different games available. Video game designers have
We need to Disconnect to really Connect
A colleague asked me to a meeting the other day. We decided to meet at a coffee shop rather than
Can you go back to a dumbphone?
At the beginning of my keynote presentation (Smartphones Are Making Us Dumb) I ask the audience: “Does anyone NOT have
An alternative to screens in the car that we can all enjoy
I was chatting with a parent at school pick-up the other day. She told me that she really enjoyed my
Smartphones are making us dumb!
At the beach recently I noticed a group of teenagers all sitting together. Every one of them was hunched over