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Bye bye, LTS….gone but not forgotten !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 1, 2011
- In: AiFL | capacity-building | change | future of education
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So, it’s July first, and LTS is no more. Subsumed in Education Scotlandtogether with HMIE. Gone, but not forgotten. Why not forgotten? Because LTS has become a byword for a cack-handed, lackadaisical, inefficient, money-wasting mess, with a reputation for inadequate project management for just about anything they’ve ever laid their sorry hands on. Teachers up [...]
A Curriculum for Mediocrity ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 28, 2010
- In: AiFL | capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Inspection | LTS | Quality assurance | Research | sustainability
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Effective use of EVS in the classroom
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 19, 2010
Electronic voting systems (EVS) are something I’ve been interested in for some time now. Over the course of this academic year, I’ve had a small scale research project on the go with a couple of my first year classes. this was another collaboration with Glasgow University Psychology dept and was the subject of a recent [...]
SLF09 – presentation
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 21, 2009
- In: AiFL | capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | LTS | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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Finally, I’ve got round to posting the few slides I used during my presentation at this year’s Scottish Learning festival. As I said at the time, this presentation was my penultimate one on the work I’ve done with GLOW. The last will be this coming week at the SERA09 conference in Perth, when I present the [...]
Future models of assessment…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 8, 2009
- In: AiFL | change | future of education | Literacy | Quality assurance | Research
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We had the second meeting of the SQA Future models of assessment working group last week. This gave the seven classroom practitioner members an opportunity to report back to the group (and several interested folk from within the SQA management teams) on how their individual assessment projects were taking shape. Very interesting presentations followed from [...]
Interactive voting systems and the how and why of multiple choice questioning…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 28, 2009
- In: AiFL | CPD | games-based learning | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers
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I’m using the Turning Point interactive voting system with a first year class at the moment. Were just trying it out and getting used to working with it, but I plan to do some classroom-based research during the next session. The plan is to use the voting systems with two first year classes (and with [...]
The jigsaw classroom, Glow, Assessment and a Curriculum for Excellence in secondary schools…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 22, 2009
- In: AiFL | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | LTS | teaching and learning
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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, [...]
We live in interesting times…TESS article – January 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 24, 2009
- In: AiFL | change | Finland | Leadership | teaching and learning
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Here is the unedited version of the TESS article from Friday January 23rd ’09 ( http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6007643) We live in interesting times. The pace of change is faster than ever. We’ve moved from a 20th century geared towards mass-production to satisfy consumerism into a 21st century in which innovation and creativity will be the watch-words. And [...]
Presenting on GLOW/ACfE…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 17, 2008
Strangely enough, it’s not often I get asked to do presentations in schools in my own local authority, so I was really pleased to be invited to do an in-service day presentation for the staff at Hamilton Grammar school this morning. The presentation was on GLOW and how it can be used effectively to [...]
Sustainability and capacity-building with GLOW (and the other two from the big three…)
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 31, 2008
- In: AiFL | capacity-building | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | Quality assurance | sustainability
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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. [...]
Did the lights stay on? ICT/GLOW and sustainability
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 17, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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…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
- In: AiFL | change | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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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 [...]
GLOW gets its own page
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 27, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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I’ve collected all my GLOW stuff onto one page in response to many requests for information on what I’m doing. The new page… http://mimanifesto.wordpress.com/my-glow-page/ …is a collection of my posts on GLOW-related stuff, starting from the earliest this year. I have made a brief comment as to the content underneath each link to help with [...]
The greatest barrier to learning is…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 23, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | teaching and learning
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….the talking teacher. I’ve heard this before, but it was brought sharply back into focus for me recently by some of my S4 students. They were working in small groups, having been told they were going to face the dreaded end-of topic test (I really hate these !) I couldn’t bring myself to let them sit [...]
What does it actually do?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 13, 2008
I’m in the middle of assignment-writing for a management and leadership PgDip programme at the moment and, just as I advise my own students to do, I’m taking plenty of ‘reward’ breaks as I work. One of them became more of a ‘Busgirl’s teabreak’ as I switched on the telly and found an episode [...]
GLOW/ICT and raising attainment – research published
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 7, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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The GTCS have now published the report from my research study into using ICT and GLOW to raise attainment. Anyone who is interested can download and read the report by going to this link… http://www.gtcs.org.uk/News/The_future_of_teaching_in_Scottish_schools.aspx My thanks to the GTCS for their support in funding and publishing this study. I’m pretty pleased with his piece [...]
Simplicity and “Ockham’s Razor” – Don’t multiply entities beyond necessity
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 1, 2008
- In: AiFL | ICT | Research
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I was lucky enough to have been able to participate in one of Ewan McIntosh’s ‘inspiration’ seminars at LTS earlier this week. The theme of this particular session was ‘simplicity’. We watched a ‘TED’ talk by David Pogue, a journalist on the New York Times who argued that much of the technology we use is [...]
Research on ICT/GLOW – so far so good.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 19, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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I’ve just finished the first phase of my GCTS teacher-researcher programme study on embedding ICT into secondary subjects and now the stats have been checked by the experts, I can report some interesting results from this study. The intention was to use GLOW as a delivery vehicle for the regular planned use of ICT and [...]
Reflections on a busy year
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 28, 2008
- In: AiFL | Finland | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | Uncategorized | VLE
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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