Archive for the ‘sustainability’ Category
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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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 [...]
Big Brain Academy@ Cathkin Learning Community…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 14, 2009
Started using ‘Big Brain Academy’ this week. Basically, for those that don’t know, this consists of 100’s of problem-solving puzzles and mental maths questions. It can be played individually or in teams and will store data so that you can monitor your performance, a little like the Dr Kawashima stuff for the DS. We are [...]
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 [...]
Our Learning community transition project. Bottom up initiatives with ‘sustainability’ and ‘scalability’
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 8, 2008
- In: capacity-building | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Inclusion | sustainability | teaching and learning
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I’m currently working on putting together a project which is a part of our learning community transition programme. It’s all about games-based learning, delivered through the Nintendo DS and on-line through GLOW. I’m working with a fantastic group of head teachers who recognise the value in terms of education to the kids and professional development to [...]
Sustainability and capacity-building with GLOW (and the other two from the big three…)
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 31, 2008
- In: AiFL | capacity-building | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | Quality assurance | sustainability
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This is a trailer for a series of posts that I’m going to publish this weekend and over the following week. I’m in the process of putting together three big presentations at the moment (for schools and the SERA conference) and I’m also leading and project-managing a learning community project which has started to gather pace. [...]
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