Archive for the ‘Research’ Category
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 [...]
Emotional education and society..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 1, 2011
Judging by what we read in the papers at the moment, Scotland is not a great place to be growing up in at the moment. Drinking, drugs, and dangerous sexual activity are endemic in our society. Knife and gun crime is the norm amongst many children who roam the streets in feral gangs without a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Why top-down initiatives in education sometimes fail…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 25, 2009
- In: change | future of education | Leadership | Research
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An interesting letter in a recent edition of the Herald (Tuesday 23rd June) provides a much more objective view of the recent graduation of Scotland’s first teachers qualified to teach Mandarin, and the Confucius classroom ‘hub’ schools set up to further the teaching of Mandarin. In the letter, Prof. Stuart Picken argues that if Scotland [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The passion and the vision
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 14, 2008
- In: AiFL | change | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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I’ve been saying for a while now that the problem with much of the educational research produce is that it’s qualitative rather than quantitative. Not that investigating the so-called soft indicators is a bad thing as they do relate to achievement in its broadest sense, but being able to show by careful measurement and statistical [...]
My SLF08 experience…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 4, 2008
- In: games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | Research | teaching and learning | Uncategorized
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With the benefit of a little distance, I thought it was about time I blogged a little about last week’s Scottish Learning Festival. A little hindsight is a great thing, and it’s certainly allowed me to crystallise my thoughts somewhat. For me, this years event was a bit of a watershed. For the previous two [...]
GLOW gets its own page
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 27, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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I’ve collected all my GLOW stuff onto one page in response to many requests for information on what I’m doing. The new page… http://mimanifesto.wordpress.com/my-glow-page/ …is a collection of my posts on GLOW-related stuff, starting from the earliest this year. I have made a brief comment as to the content underneath each link to help with [...]
Quo Vadis ? GLOW at the crossroads..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 30, 2008
- In: GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Quality assurance | Research | teaching and learning
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Over the course of this year so far, this blog has documented my own GLOW journey and experiences. Regular posting on here, and comment and discussion on other blogs has been invaluable in helping me to refine my thoughts about and approach to working with GLOW in my school and with others. I’ve been involved [...]
Skills for a digital age
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 20, 2008
John Connell has an interesting post on his blog at the moment. Its all about how a school in Australia is allowing students to use mobile phones and ipods during exams… http://www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/?p=940 They have to cite their sources to avoid plagiarism of course. It does pose a few questions fo us here in Scotland though. [...]
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 [...]
Simplicity and “Ockham’s Razor” – Don’t multiply entities beyond necessity
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 1, 2008
- In: AiFL | ICT | Research
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I was lucky enough to have been able to participate in one of Ewan McIntosh’s ‘inspiration’ seminars at LTS earlier this week. The theme of this particular session was ‘simplicity’. We watched a ‘TED’ talk by David Pogue, a journalist on the New York Times who argued that much of the technology we use is [...]
Study visit to Finland – a reflective summary
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 30, 2008
- In: Finland | GLOW | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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Back in May I travelled to Finland on an LTS funded individual study visit. I’ve just written the interim report on my activities and observations, one of the conditions of funding. I thought I’d post it here as well for anyone who is interested in reading my thoughts on the trip and the possible impact on my [...]
Is it just me or….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 24, 2008
- In: Finland | GLOW | ICT | Research
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…are there others who read the ok and Hello mags when on holiday. I’m starting to get a bit of a complex because a quick scoot around the sites of the blogeratti reveals some quite highbrow holiday reading lists. Mine, on the other hand consists of the above-mentioned mags, some Marion Keyes, this years editions [...]
Research on ICT/GLOW – so far so good.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 19, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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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 [...]
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