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Reports of the death of blogging have been greatly exagerated !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 24, 2011
- In: Literacy | networking | PLN | sustainability
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So teens are going off blogging and turning increasingly to social networking sites such as Twitter instead. So says a recent article in the New York Times I came across, courtesy of the Smart Brief on EdTech. Some interesting comment, particularly about the reasons for this apparent switch. One of these was the time taken [...]
Native linguists removed from schools..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 19, 2011
- In: Inclusion | Literacy | Leadership | Equality | change | capacity-building | future of education
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An excellent piece from Tom Shields in today’s Herald newspaper. He takes a rather witty and beautifully written series of pot-shots at Glasgow City Council Education dept for removing all foreign language assistants from their schools by remembering, somewhat fondly, his own experiences of the benefits of language assistants. The enormous benefits of having native [...]
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 [...]
Elaborative rehersal for high performance learning
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 17, 2008
- In: GLOW | Literacy | teaching and learning
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I was going to write a post summarising my study visit to Finland last week (more to come on that in a few days time) but today, I attended a Psychology seminar at Stirling University. It gave me a rare chance to really focus on some of the actual material that I teach for [...]
Blended learning – and joined up attitudes.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 8, 2008
- In: Finland | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Literacy | Uncategorized
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I had a great day today, you know the sort of day I mean. One where all the thoughts and debates you’ve had about the way you’d like to work are vindicated by seeing someone else actually putting this into practice. I visited an upper secondary school in Sipoo, a town to the west of [...]
When a lesson goes wrong…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 4, 2008
- In: GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Literacy
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I did a lesson with my S3 Biology class on Thursday which didn’t go to plan. So as is usual for me, I sat down later (well, this morning actually) to try and put my thoughts about this in some kind of order. And when I started to do this the realisation that it actually [...]
Who’s afraid of the digital native ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 1, 2008
- In: ICT | Inclusion | Literacy
- 8 Comments
I came across this video earlier today and just had to laugh – it reminded me so much of my grandson. The way he’s going, he will soon be teaching me how to do stuff on my pc ! Great ! But seriously, these are the kids we teach at the moment and will teach [...]
Making GLOW connections at Stirling…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 23, 2008
- In: GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Literacy | Quality assurance
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Its been an interesting couple of days here in Stirling at the ‘Making Connections and Sharing Success’ GLOW conference. Loads of really keen people wanting to take GLOW forward in their authority and schools across the country from the Western Isles down to Dumfries and Galloway. Some great ideas kicking around the tables, many of [...]
Tempus Fugit…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 29, 2008
- In: GLOW | ICT | Literacy
- 9 Comments
Another busy week. Its amazing just how quickly time flies by. Its only three weeks since I had my knee operation but already I’m right back into the swing of things, and as ever, there’s always so much to do in school. We had two more really good lessons using GLOW in biology. The S3 [...]
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