Innovation: Lamborghini or Lemon?

Graeme Aitken's keynote from ULearn 11 is available. The TLDR version is:

Educators are obliged to cause:

• Successful learning (achievement)
• Greater interest and
• Greater confidence

It's not enough to simply cause one of these to happen, we must maximise the intersection of all three. BUT, educators can waste students' time in three key ways:

• Misalignment (not doing the core business of the task)
• Disengagement
• Lack of success

Evaluate your innovations again these criteria to ensure they are not 'mirage' innovations:

ULearn 2010 kicks off

I'm in Christchurch for Ulearn10, catching up with a lot of people and having my brain stretched in new and interesting ways. Here's a pic from the opening keynote showing how wonderfully diverse the audience is. Can you see the three screens in this shot? There's Ubuntu Linux, Windows XP and iOS on an iPad. (Size is relative to level of coolness ;-)