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Secrets and lies, openness and closure…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 6, 2011
“Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it” So said German philosopher Georg Simmel over one hundred years ago. And with the birth of Education Scotland perhaps, or even, hopefully, we can look forward to a new era of openness and transparency [...]
SNP open to change on GLOW…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 5, 2011
Following on from my recent post on the Scottish government elections and social media use, there were some more interesting exchanges with former education minister Mike Russell. In response to criticism of GLOW and its management to date on Twitter. Mr Russell made several interesting comments.. In reply to this post from a Scots twitterer [...]
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 [...]
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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A new culture of openness ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 10, 2010
- In: GLOW | Leadership | LTS | Research
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…..as implied by Andrew Brown , newly appointed ‘head of GLOW’ at LTS, last year when talking about the challenges facing the Scottish schools intranet project. A radical departure for LTS. A brave new world indeed. And in the spirit of this supposed new era to be ushered in by Andrew, I asked him to publish [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Self-evaluation – a wider purpose ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 4, 2009
- In: Equality | homophobia | Inclusion | Inspection | Leadership | LTS | Quality assurance
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There’s a lot of this going on all over the country at the moment. The new HMIE-lite inspection regime relies upon schools undertaking rigorous internal quality assurance where the concept of using self-evaluation to inform and enhance both the learning and teaching and just as importantly the life and ethos of a school. I blogged [...]
More on GLOW and organic growth
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 30, 2009
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | LTS | Quality assurance
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The QA debate over GLOW learn has been interesting for me, and prompted some reflection as well as revisiting previous blog posts. One in particular appears to be very relevant to this topic, from just under a year ago http://mimanifesto.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/glow-future-directions-just-keep-the-faith/ The comments are also very interesting from a variety of folk, including Andrew Brown and [...]
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, [...]
Which way now, Glow ?… continued..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 17, 2009
- In: future of education | GLOW | ICT | LTS
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Looking at some of the big ICT initiatives internationally over the past few years, it can perhaps be seen that the successful ones might have been characterised by a specific focus. The Finns concentrated on staff training and producing ‘learning objects’ for subjects which teachers could adapt as necessary. The Norwegians legislated to make ICT skills [...]
Onwards and upwards for GLOW ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 31, 2009
- In: change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | LTS | teaching and learning | VLE
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A couple of weeks ago, students at my school were able to take part in a live autopsy beamed out from the National seabird centre in North Berwick via GLOW meet. I say ‘take part’ because, of course, as it was a GLOW event, student participation and engagement was at the heart of the whole thing. [...]
The AERS virtual research environment – valuable experience for GLOW?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 30, 2008
- In: capacity-building | GLOW | ICT | LTS | Research | sustainability | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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I was looking through the latest AERS research commentary magazine last night (it’s not on line unfortunately). In this October edition, they have devoted almost the entire space to a discussion of the research around virtual environments (including a large amount of commentry on GLOW) in Scottish education. The front cover names this coverage ‘Glimmer’ implying that whilst [...]
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