Archive for March 2009
More on GLOW and organic growth
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 30, 2009
The QA debate over GLOW learn has been interesting for me, and prompted some reflection as well as revisiting previous blog posts. One in particular appears to be very relevant to this topic, from just under a year ago
http://mimanifesto.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/glow-future-directions-just-keep-the-faith/
The comments are also very interesting from a variety of folk, including Andrew Brown and John Connell, [...]
QA, IPR, and GLOW Learn
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 28, 2009
Lots of discussion about the sharing of resources through Glow learn going on at the moment. I raised this during a twitter conversation a couple of weeks ago and I have real concerns about the possibility of a top-down LA-imposed QA process in many parts of the country on the work and resources a teacher might wish to [...]
The jigsaw classroom, Glow, Assessment and a Curriculum for Excellence in secondary schools…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 22, 2009
This is an approach I’ve been using with one of my S5 classes following an Intermediate 2 course. Those of you familiar with our system in Scotland will be all too painfully aware of the 9 month ‘dash’ through the course to the May/June examination diet. It’s the same in the rest of the UK, [...]
Percy comes to Cathkin Nursery…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 21, 2009
…via GLOW of course. This week saw a reading of the story of Percy the Puffin’s homecoming from the national seabird centre at North Berwick. Our community nursery were keen to get involved after I showed Liz Mercer the head teacher the plans for this national glow event. Due to a slight technical hitch, we [...]
Which way now, Glow ?… continued..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 17, 2009
- In: GLOW| ICT| LTS| future of education
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Looking at some of the big ICT initiatives internationally over the past few years, it can perhaps be seen that the successful ones might have been characterised by a specific focus. The Finns concentrated on staff training and producing ‘learning objects’ for subjects which teachers could adapt as necessary. The Norwegians legislated to make ICT skills [...]
A Digital Fairy Tale – Chapters 6 and 7
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 15, 2009
Both are now posted on the education 2020 wiki..
http://education2020.wikispaces.com/A+Fairytale
Big Brain Academy@ Cathkin Learning Community…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 14, 2009
Started using ‘Big Brain Academy’ this week. Basically, for those that don’t know, this consists of 100’s of problem-solving puzzles and mental maths questions. It can be played individually or in teams and will store data so that you can monitor your performance, a little like the Dr Kawashima stuff for the DS. We are [...]
Quo Vadis GLOW – revisited.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 14, 2009
Just over six months ago, I wrote a blog post about the direction that the GLOW project was taking. As I’ve been working on the data for some journal papers about using ICT to raise attainment it’s probably timeous to revisit this post and review the comments made at that time.
A big part of my research [...]
Animate this !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 4, 2009
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Chapter 6 of the digital fairytale for the 21st century is over on the Education2020 wiki. There’s a suggestion from Andrew Brown that maybe it would be interesting for the tale to be an animation as well…
So, over to y’all..is there anyone out there who could give it a go…a school project maybe even ?
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