User:GeorgeH

Learner and educator, in this order! Thirty years in international education and currently Headmaster at the ABC - British School in El Salvador. Interested in educational technology and the underlying pedagogies. Currently doing the Change11 MOOC and developed interest in openness in education. Investigating the idea of openness in schools (Secondary) as a way of developing real skills and understandings in students enabling them to work in an "open" environment. Easier to define open as the opposite of closed: a closed curriculum, teacher pouring knowledge into brains, passive students, passive learning, closed within classroom walls in reality and virtually, closed within subject/discipline walls in terms of both content and approaches and skills.