Archive for June 2008
Reflections on a busy year
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 28, 2008
It’s certainly been an eventful year for me. Looking forward to a beach in Turkey next week, I got a big dose of the reflection city blues and have been thinking all day about how best to sum up 2007-8 in a single post. I suppose I started this academic year back last August knowing [...]
Should learning be fun ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 25, 2008
Talking with my students over the past couple of weeks, the subject of what makes good lessons kept returning to the ‘f’ word… fun. We’ve been doing interviews discussing our experiences using GLOW and ICT this year and what the young people particularly like about their time in these classes is this element of fun [...]
Digital natives-the full story ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 21, 2008
For anyone who is interested, Marc Prensky has a blog…
http://www.marcprensky.com/blog/
It has links to all his published work to date. Worth a look I think.
Evolution vs Revolution or Gradualism ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 18, 2008
- In: AiFL| GLOW| ICT| Leadership| teaching and learning
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Here is an extract from a speech given by Dylan Wiliam (“Inside the black box”) a couple of years ago. He was talking about getting teachers to change their classroom pedagogy with regard to formative assessment. He calls it gradualism
“Asking teachers to make wholesale changes in their practice is a little like asking a golfer [...]
GLOW- Future directions? just keep the faith..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 14, 2008
This is a long post – you have been warned !!
Having been using GLOW in some form or other for over a year now and for seven months in teaching and learning with my classes I felt that it was time to reflect a little on where we might be going with it, and perhaps [...]
More teacher-researchers- more staffroom credibility?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 12, 2008
I’m on study leave at the moment and in the course of my reading came across the work of Ann Brown who in 1992 first put forward the idea of an experimental methodology where there is a synergistic and concurrent relationship between a researcher, designer and participants in experimental studies, rather than the clear delineation that [...]
LTS – BLOCKED !!!
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 10, 2008
That most venerable of organs, the LT Scotland website is now blocked in our school by the RM filter…
I’m told it’s because of links to ‘inapropriate’ content (figure that one out !)
What is the world coming to – does anybody know what is happening in the Optima then ?
GLOW and ACfE – qualitative evidence from situated learning
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 6, 2008
I’ve spent much of the past few weeks examining the quantitative aspects of embedding ICT into secondary school subject curricula for a research study I’m running as a part of the GTCS teacher researcher programme. Specifically, I am trying to measure any rise in attainment from a particular group of pupils who are using GLOW [...]
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