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My education wish-list for this parliament
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 17, 2011
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OK, now the election is done and dusted, and rather significantly I think, with an absolute majority for the new SNP government. So will it be a case of ‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss’ as Pete Townshend wrote all those years ago, or will this new found power lead to some [...]
Jamie’s dream school and what it really teaches us
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 9, 2011
I don’t know if you watched this, but there’s been some interesting reaction from the press and, more importantly, teachers themselves. I think its a bit condescending of cheeky chappie Jamie O to waltz into schools and try to show us how to, as he put it, re-engage kids with education. After all, we know [...]
Inter professional dialogue as CPD
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 14, 2011
It sometimes strikes me, as I speak and network with other education professionals that we are rather insular in our approaches. Of course, many folk I’ve worked with went from school, to university, and straight into teaching as their chosen career, and have been teachers and educationalists ever since. However, certainly over the past few [...]
MJ Online article
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 25, 2009
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Here’s the link to the article by Merlin on agent4change.net. Thanks for all the comments so far on twitter http://www.agent4change.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=462:the-innovators-5-jaye-richards&catid=90:the-innovators&Itemid=460
Moving forward with IT
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 9, 2009
- In: capacity-building | change | CPD | future of education | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | LTS | networking | Quality assurance | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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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 [...]
New term – New job…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 29, 2009
- In: capacity-building | change | CPD | games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | networking | PLN | teaching and learning
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It’s been a really intense school year, what with the onward march of GLOW, a couple of research projects, ACfE, and the ‘BrainBoosters’ primary/secondary games-based learning project. Lots of interesting work so the feeling of moving slowly towards the summer break was really kicking in last week big time. Add to this another knee operation, [...]
Education 2020 and Islay High School 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 16, 2009
Arriving at Islay High School early last Friday morning in the glorious sunshine, it was easy to forget the 0400hrs start from Glasgow. Some great company and conversation in the car with David Noble, Maureen Park and driven by Katie Barrowman and so the journey up to Kennacraig passed by through some amazing scenery in [...]
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 [...]
School Science Summit
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 6, 2009
I was invited to take part in the Scottish Government School Science Summit earlier this week. Thought-provoking questions, some great discussions, and very good to see all stakeholders engaging in the debate on a change agenda for science. Interesting speech from Fiona Hyslop and some great stuff from Jack Jackson. And great to network, and [...]
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 [...]
Building Windmills 09…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 13, 2009
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Mike Coulter, one of the country’s leading web 2.0 exponents has produced a superb slideshow of the ‘Twitterati’ in action at the recent National CPD team conference ‘Building Windmills’. You can find it on the CPD team blog. It’s a superb example of how personal learning networks can utilise the power of web 2.0 social networking [...]
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