Archive for April 2008
Change revisited
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 29, 2008
- In: GLOW| ICT| Leadership
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I recently came across an award-winning blog post from Karl Fisch which poses the following question…
‘Is it okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher ?’ Fisch is clearly of the opinion that it is not. He goes on to make this rather bold statement..
“If a teacher today is not technologically literate – and is unwilling [...]
Thoughts from last year on GLOW
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 27, 2008
I’ve just found this post on Neil Winton’s blog about a GLOW training event he attended last year. One sentence jumps out at me..
“I sat in the room watching the demo and realised that there is no going back — that Scotland’s education system is committed to a radical shake-up in the way it develops [...]
Making GLOW connections at Stirling…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 23, 2008
- In: GLOW| ICT| Leadership| Literacy| Quality assurance
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Its been an interesting couple of days here in Stirling at the ‘Making Connections and Sharing Success’ GLOW conference. Loads of really keen people wanting to take GLOW forward in their authority and schools across the country from the Western Isles down to Dumfries and Galloway. Some great ideas kicking around the tables, many of [...]
Finland
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 16, 2008
- In: Finland| ICT
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I’ve been very busy this week arranging the schedule for my study visit to Finland next month. Whilst doing the literature review for a research paper on ICT, I came accross some interesting work by researchers at the University of Helsinki on the use of ICT within subjects
http://www.helsinki.fi/science/networkedlearning/eng/index.html
I made cotact with one of the researchers who [...]
Blog or Learning Log ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 10, 2008
What are blogs for and why do some of us keep them ? This is something I’ve often thought about. Particularly for those of us in education there appears to be a fashion for changing the name to ‘learning logs’. Apparently, this is to distinguish them from mere ordinary blogs and perhaps give them more [...]
HMIE – friend or foe ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 8, 2008
Some fierce debate going on over on the TESS opinion forum about the merits or not of our current inspection regime.
http://www.tes.co.uk/section/staffroom/thread.aspx?story_id=2600782&path=/scotland/scotland+-+opinion/&threadPage=1
It raises the whole issue of quality assurance in schools. Many subscribe to the business approach where rigourous inspection of processes drives up the quality of the end product. Others make the point that education [...]
On leadership….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 4, 2008
- In: Leadership
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A few things have happened recently which have focused my attention on the subject of leadership in schools. What exactly do we expect from our management teams ? and what support do we give them in terms of training and skills assessment ? Not enough, I think. I don’t see much of a problem with head teachers [...]
Phil Beadle – superteacher or luddite ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 3, 2008
- In: ICT
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There is a really good debate going on over on Ewan McIntosh’s blog at the moment…
http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/04/watch-out-beadl.html?cid=109321996#comment-109321996
No comments here, check the link and join the discussion.
And maybe have a look at this video (thanks to Andrea Reid for this one…)
watch?v=_M_336pDWoM
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