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SERA 09 Presentation – and the future of GLOW
Posted by: mimanifesto on: December 8, 2009
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | LTS | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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Last week at the annual Scottish educational research association conference, I gave a short presentation during the GTCS-sponsored practitioner researcher session. This gave me an opportunity to discuss the findings of the two year (give or take a couple of months !) study into using ICT delivered through GLOW, to raise attainment. I’ve summarised the [...]
Work-life balance – a rediscovery
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 14, 2009
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | games-based learning | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | LTS | Quality assurance | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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Things have been very quiet on this blog of late. Now I’ve threatened to go quiet in the past, usually with much fanfare and then kept on blogging anyway. This time, I just sort of faded away. A combination of many things prompted this quasi- web 2.0 disappearance ( I also went very dark on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SERA 08 conference
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 28, 2008
- In: change | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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The Scotish Educational Research Association conference is taking place at the moment in Perth. Saturday is a practitioner day. Now this concept is not everybody’s cup of tea, but at least it allows teacher-researchers to attend and present their research papers when they otherwise might be unable to attend due to teaching commitments. A lot of [...]
Did the lights stay on? ICT/GLOW and sustainability
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 17, 2008
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Research on ICT/GLOW – so far so good.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 19, 2008
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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 [...]
GLOW- Future directions? just keep the faith..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 14, 2008
- In: Finland | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Leadership | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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This is a long post – you have been warned !! Having been using GLOW in some form or other for over a year now and for seven months in teaching and learning with my classes I felt that it was time to reflect a little on where we might be going with it, and [...]
More teacher-researchers- more staffroom credibility?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 12, 2008
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I’m on study leave at the moment and in the course of my reading came across the work of Ann Brown who in 1992 first put forward the idea of an experimental methodology where there is a synergistic and concurrent relationship between a researcher, designer and participants in experimental studies, rather than the clear delineation that [...]
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