Learning2.1

My name is Michael McGlade and I am currently the Director of Technology at AIS-R, the American International School Riyadh.  I recently moved here from Dubai where I was the IT Director at Dubai American Academy, a K-12 American school in the UAE.  I was also recently the Elementary School’s Technology coordinator at the International School of Kuala Lumpur where my family and I lived for three years.  Prior to that we spent 7 years in Shanghai, China.  We love living and teaching overseas and all the ups and downs that go along with that.  In August we are moving to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to work at the American International School in Riyadh.

About the name of my blog, Learning 2.1: While it is most obviously a nod to the Web 2.0 and Learning 2.0 ideas, I want to show that we are moving on a bit from the idea of Learning 2.0 and tie in the idea of 21st century learning and skills. So the 2.1 is a play, albeit a fairly lame one, on version 2.1 and the current century. {My son also has Trisomy 21, which I don’t necessarily talk about in the blog, but is part of the fabric of what makes me me and what I think about kids and education.}