Archive for March 2008
Tempus Fugit…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 29, 2008
- In: GLOW| ICT| Literacy
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Another busy week. Its amazing just how quickly time flies by. Its only three weeks since I had my knee operation but already I’m right back into the swing of things, and as ever, there’s always so much to do in school. We had two more really good lessons using GLOW in biology. The S3 [...]
Food for thought….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 22, 2008
- In: GLOW| ICT| Inclusion
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The recent lesson I taught from home using GLOW meet really got me thinking. Of course, the pupils enjoyed the ‘novelty’ factor and were engaged throughout the 50 minutes or so, but on a more serious note, I feel I achieved just as much if not more in that lesson than I would if I [...]
Equal under the law, but maybe not so equal in schools
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 20, 2008
Prejudice against gays and lesbians is rife in schools because teachers are unwilling to face up to it. As we congratulate ourselves on the completion of another hard terms work, perhaps we can spare a thought for some of the things we didn’t learn at our teacher education institutions – real issues of equality and discrimination. For [...]
Digital holidays and the quantitative evidence…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 11, 2008
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Sitting here away from my classroom with my (very) sore and swollen leg propped up on pillows, I’ve been reflecting on much of my classroom practice, as well as feeling rather sorry for myself. Its not nice to be told that you need a knee replacement at the grand old age of 43. It got [...]
Old and decrepit
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 9, 2008
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I’m sitting here at the moment with my leg up on pillows having just got out of hospital. I’ve had some more work done on my knee, which really needs replacing. The surgeons are trying to buy a little more time by doing a proceedure called ‘microfracture’ in which they rough up the surface of [...]
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