Archive for July 2009
iPhone gets intimate….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 31, 2009
I’ve blogged in the past about the uber-geekiness of that charmless and ubiquitous slab of black plastic known as the iPhone, and the headlong rush by many folk into ownership, together with the craze for downloading quirky but ultimately useless apps, but the latest one just about takes the biscuit…
Now, you can download an app [...]
Why top-down initiatives in education sometimes fail…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 25, 2009
An interesting letter in a recent edition of the Herald (Tuesday 23rd June) provides a much more objective view of the recent graduation of Scotland’s first teachers qualified to teach Mandarin, and the Confucius classroom ‘hub’ schools set up to further the teaching of Mandarin. In the letter, Prof. Stuart Picken argues that if Scotland [...]
On society, inclusion, and evolving attitudes….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 15, 2009
- In: Equality| Inclusion| homophobia
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I think we’d all agree that society (whatever definition one gives to this term) evolves over time. Things don’t remain static and with this change, beliefs and values also evolve. I’ve certainly seen the way society treats minority groups change, and very much for the better, over the past thirty years or so. It would [...]
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 14, 2009
I went to a special press screening of the new Harry Potter film yesterday. It’s not out on general release until tomorrow, so I guess i was quite lucky to get a sneak preview. The experience was enhanced by seeing parts of the film in 3-D, courtesy of the Glasgow IMAX cinema at Glasgow’s Science [...]
Moving forward with IT
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 9, 2009
The recent OFSTED report , talking about ICT initiatives in England and Wales makes the following point…
despite the heavy investment in ICT there was no evidence of the “systematic evaluation of the impact on learning”
Read the report summary, courtesy of Merlin John online here…
http://bit.ly/hUxZE
I’ve often written about my own feelings on the lack of [...]
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