Archive for the ‘ICT’ Category
The difference between anonymity and invertebrate tendency…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 5, 2011
- In: GLOW | ICT | LTS | networking
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Those of you who were about on Twitter a couple of weekends ago will remember that I was a little annoyed about an anonymous comment which somebody had left on my blog for publication… I would never publish an anonymous comment, unless I knew the person who sent it and they asked me to [...]
GLOW…Statistics, statistics, and more statistics…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 26, 2011
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | teaching and learning
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Some interesting GLOW stuff came out in the wash yesterday. Andrew Brown, head honcho of GLOW (who’s been digitally rather quiet of late) when speaking at an education and technology conference in Belfast (#agendani on Twitter) fell back on statistics again, I assume, to demonstrate to our Northern Irish friends how wonderful and all-pervading, the [...]
Islay first, and the Cedars follows…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 21, 2011
- In: change | future of education | ICT
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Well done to the Cedars School of Excellence, a private school in Greenock for equipping all pupils with iPads and having most lessons taught using them. The school’s website proudly boasts that it is the first school in the world to have a 1:1 pupil/iPad ratio. At a cost of £45K, no small change here [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
TESS letter
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 17, 2010
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | LTS | teaching and learning
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TESS published a letter from me last week. It’s really a summary of the ‘Emperors new clothes’ blog post about the hype and blindly optimistic rhetoric which is currently surrounding GLOW, and the rather sniffy and chilly attitude which appears to descend upon anyone who dares to criticize any aspect of the GLOW project at the moment. [...]
The Emperor’s new clothes….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 5, 2010
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | networking | PLN | Quality assurance | sustainability | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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“Your Majesty,” the prime minister said, “we have a request for you. The people have found out about this extraordinary fabric and they are anxious to see you in your new suit.” The Emperor was doubtful showing himself naked to the people, but then he abandoned his fears. After all, no one would know about [...]
We live in interesting times…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 18, 2010
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | LTS | sustainability
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Well, I certainly do anyway, both personally and professionally. And thats why I’ve not had the chance to blog about the TESS article I wrote recently and the responses from LTS. You can see the article if you’ve not already read it by following this link… http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6032879 as well as the editorial, together with some [...]
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 [...]
GLOW lights up Cathkin High opening celebration…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: December 2, 2009
It’s nice to be able to write about a GLOW success story…. Our school had it’s rather belated opening ceremony today. Invited guests and civic dignitaries watched many of our students performing in a celebration of the life of the school. The ‘street’ area is too small to assemble the whole school so we had [...]
MJ Online article
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 25, 2009
- In: capacity-building | CPD | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | networking | PLN | Quality assurance | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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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
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 [...]
GLOW and student engagement – the qualitative stuff..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 27, 2009
Here is the abstract from the latest phase of our GLOW/ICT research project. I’m going to post a summary of the data and conclusions later. This was written by Elianne Ashwood who was working with me before last year, and it’s printed with her permission, and should be attributed in the usual way A mixed [...]
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 [...]
EVS, GLOW, and raising attainment.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 5, 2009
- In: change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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I had a very productive meeting with a couple of colleagues today discussing the proposed Electronic Voting System (EVS) research project we’re planning to carry out (with the help of a couple of UG research students from the university) in school over the course of the next session. The design and methodology for this project [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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