Archive for October 2008
Sustainability and capacity-building with GLOW (and the other two from the big three…)
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 31, 2008
This is a trailer for a series of posts that I’m going to publish this weekend and over the following week. I’m in the process of putting together three big presentations at the moment (for schools and the SERA conference) and I’m also leading and project-managing a learning community project which has started to gather pace. [...]
Subject specialism and secondary teachers – a status symbol too far?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 24, 2008
Do secondary teachers themselves actually increase the barriers between subject areas rather than working to break them down ? Is there still too much of the subject specialist’ culture in our schools? Now I actually remember quite a bit from my days at Teacher Training College and one of these pearls of wisdom was the [...]
A little bit of controversy…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 18, 2008
- In: GLOW| ICT| LTS| Leadership| change| teaching and learning
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I’ve spent the holiday week doing lots of stuff, mainly catch-up and a little reflection. One of the things I’ve had the opportunity to do is to watch a few videos. A few TED talks I’ve been meaning to see, as well as some conference keynotes and seminars from SLF, and also the HHL08 stuff [...]
Did the lights stay on? ICT/GLOW and sustainability
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 17, 2008
…is going to be the working title of our longitudinal study tracking a secondary school Biology year group over their complete standard grade course, with one of the classes using GLOW to deliver regular embedded ICT content. This is a continuation of this year’s research and should address, amongst other things, the issue of sustainability of [...]
The passion and the vision
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 14, 2008
I’ve been saying for a while now that the problem with much of the educational research produce is that it’s qualitative rather than quantitative. Not that investigating the so-called soft indicators is a bad thing as they do relate to achievement in its broadest sense, but being able to show by careful measurement and statistical [...]
A link that works !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 11, 2008
Thanks to Fearghal for pointing out that the link to my GTCS research paper on ICT/GLOW does not work !
I hope that says more about the site changes and less about my own technical ICT ability – anyway, here is the link, and this time, I’ve checked it out myself.
Will the lights stay on?
and the [...]
When is central control not central control?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 9, 2008
Answer – when it’s only a template, or so it seems…An interesting debate going on over on the GLOW Scotland blog about local authority approaches to rolling out GLOW. It appears I’ve ruffled a few Aberdonian feathers with my opinions on what I perceive to be a perhaps a more centralised way of doing things.
http://ltsblogs.org.uk/glowscotland/2008/10/03/glow-for-aberdeen-city-probationers/
As [...]
My SLF08 experience…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 4, 2008
With the benefit of a little distance, I thought it was about time I blogged a little about last week’s Scottish Learning Festival. A little hindsight is a great thing, and it’s certainly allowed me to crystallise my thoughts somewhat. For me, this years event was a bit of a watershed. For the previous two [...]
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