Category: Government

Big History, Bill Gates & Diane Ravitch

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on September 8, 2014

“Diane Ravitch is the rarest of scholars—one who reports her findings and conclusions, even when they go against conventional wisdom and even when they counter her […]

Posted in Education, Government, Professional development | Tagged "BIG HISTORY", Bill Gates, David Christian | 1 Comment

Humans Need Not Apply

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on August 14, 2014

We need to start thinking now what do we do when large sections of the population are unemployable through no fault of their own. What […]

Posted in Digital life, Featured, Government | Tagged civil society, future, PBL, society, Spain, technology, unemployment, youth | 2 Comments

I Voted!

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 12, 2014

There have been many posts about our school’s nurturing democracy program over the last few years at my blog, including this one about our plan to […]

Posted in Education, Government | Tagged AEC, democracy, SRC, voting | 2 Comments

The Road to Serfdom & Capital in the 21st Century

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 21, 2014

Hugh Mackay, in a recent article about the 2014 federal budget, asks Australians to consider: is this the Australia we really want to be? To answer […]

Posted in Education, Featured, Government | Tagged Australia, budget, Friedrich Hayek, ideaology, politics, Thomas Piketty | 4 Comments

Democracy at school

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on March 25, 2014

Does your school hold authentically democratic elections? The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) is conducting our school elections for the first time in 2014 as our […]

Posted in Education, Government, Professional development | Tagged AEC, democracy, school, SRC, voting | 1 Comment

The 21st Century Education ‘Debate’ in Australia

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on January 12, 2014

“More than anything else, we want to take the politics out of this issue.” […]

Posted in Education, Government, Professional development | Tagged ACARA, Christopher Pyne, curriculum, Kevin Donnelly, partisan bias, religion | 3 Comments

Nurturing Democracy

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on August 28, 2013

“The tone of modern political discourse [in Australia] has caused younger generations to become disillusioned with government, and by extrapolation, with democracy.” SOURCE “In a […]

Posted in Education, Government | Tagged Dapto, democracy, forum, SRC, Throsby | 3 Comments

The Soap Opera

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 27, 2013

“Politics is war by other means.” Foucault The soap opera that is Australian politics entered a new phase last night. Three […]

Posted in Featured, Government | Tagged ALP, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, politics | 2 Comments

Pearson & ACARA

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 19, 2013

The next generation of NAPLAN literacy and numeracy tests will transform the monitoring of students’ development of these key foundational skills. It will be 21st […]

Posted in Education, Government, Professional development | Tagged ACARA, NAPLAN, Pearson, standardised testing | 8 Comments

BYOD (in a post-DER world)

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on June 4, 2013

State schools in NSW are grappling with a post-DER world. The Digital Education Revolution funding from the federal government provided Lenovo laptops, technical support and […]

Posted in Education, Featured, Government, Professional development | Tagged BYOD, DEC, DERNSW, Laptops, policy | 19 Comments

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The #Orwell quote from The Lion and the Unicorn was worthy of a run: "A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase" in The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY #brexit

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The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY and I do wonder if @aroberts_andrew would describe himself as a "right wing historian"?

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MIT, Stanford professors are designing a cryptocurrency to top Bitcoin fortune.com/2019/01/… ping @Downes

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In Time (2011) by Andrew Niccol is not a futuristic dystopia but informed contemporary economic analysis. Discuss. pic.twitter.com/nOBf…

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The rest of the quote: "In order to fit into these organisations, individuals have had to deindividualise themselves, have had to deny their native diversity and conform to a standard pattern, have had to their best to become automata." twitter.com/Darcy196…

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Aldous Huxley sagely wrote: "Too much organisation transforms men and women into automata, suffocates the creative spirit and abolishes the very possibility of freedom ..." #managerialism twitter.com/sdinhamu…

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