Pamela McLean is co-founder of Dadamac. She lives in London. She is a qualified teacher and grateful graduate of the Open Univeristy - both of which opened doors for her current work.  She "does useful stuff" and then thinks and writes about it. She also introduces people to each other and "helps them to do useful stuff" as well. She is a "specialist generalist". Her work pulls together education, development, the world of work, the impact of the Internet, and much more besides. She helps to direct most of Dadamac's work, but still thinks of herself mostly as a teacher and mentor, and is happiest teaching other people what she had learned.

A journey that started in the 1980s

Pamela has been asking herself questions, doing practical stuff to explore the answers, and then writing or teaching about it since the late 1970s.

Back then she was an infant teacher and was often invited to speak about her innovative work exploring the role of microcomputers through programs she wrote herself. Her contributions to the lecture circuit reach back to CAL 81 (symposium on Computer Assisted Learning) and the 1981 Micro Computer Show at Wembly Conference Centre.

Used copies of some of her early work - published under the name Pam Fiddy - can still be found on amazon: Micro-computers in Early Education and the children's book series on "Computers in Action" .

Fast forward to the present century

Since 2001 her practical work has been in Africa, at home in the UK, and perhaps most significantly, online. Her work in Africa, from 2001, depended on the Internet. In 2008 she set up this Dadamac website to increase the visibility of collaborative work in Nigeria, especially supporting John Dada's work at Fantsuam Foundation (see UK -Nigeria weekly meetings) Evidence of her own work is scattered over the Internet, and is also gradually being included on this website. See Bringing more of Dadamac UK and elsewhere to Dadamac.net

The long view

Pamela finds that the older she gets the more interested she is in the long view, forwards and backwards. This shows up in her recent contributions to Despatches from the Invisible Revolution and The Future we Deserve where she wrote about The Invisible Revolution, The Future we Got and The Education we Deserve

Other interests

Her current interests are reflected on the dadamac website, through her postings to Dadamac's Posterous and Twitter @pamela_mclean, and through the regular meetings she arranges online (First Thursdays) and face-to-face in London (Dadamac Meetups). Some of her previous interests and connections over recent years can be seen on an earlier personal blog LearnByDoing. She plans to start using Pam's blog more as the process of bringing her work to this website gathers momentum.