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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 [...]
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 [...]
The Emperor’s new clothes….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 5, 2010
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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 [...]
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
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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
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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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Quo Vadis GLOW – revisited.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 14, 2009
Just over six months ago, I wrote a blog post about the direction that the GLOW project was taking. As I’ve been working on the data for some journal papers about using ICT to raise attainment it’s probably timeous to revisit this post and review the comments made at that time. A big part of [...]
The AERS virtual research environment – valuable experience for GLOW?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 30, 2008
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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 [...]
SERA 08 conference
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 28, 2008
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The Scotish Educational Research Association conference is taking place at the moment in Perth. Saturday is a practitioner day. Now this concept is not everybody’s cup of tea, but at least it allows teacher-researchers to attend and present their research papers when they otherwise might be unable to attend due to teaching commitments. A lot of [...]
Cathkin/Trinity Learning Communities INSET day links…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 24, 2008
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As promised, here is the link to my presentation from this morning’s in-service ACfE/GLOW event… http://app.sliderocket.com/app/FullPlayer.aspx?id=aadcd16f-39e0-42fe-afd5-a35c64d96e48. The link to the GLOW research is as follows… http://www.gtcs.org.uk/Research_/TeacherResearcherProgramme/TeacherResearcherReports/will_the_lights_stay_on.aspx LTS case studies on GLOW are at… http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/glowscotland/sharingpractice/index.asp Hope you enjoy them. All the other presentations are on the area GLOW group.
A better week…EePc’s, Gaming and some older research revisited
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 21, 2008
- In: games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | LTS | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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It’s been a better week in school, with light actually becoming visible at the end of a very long tunnel. More staff are coming to see me about getting their GLOW log-ins and arranging training. We are going to be starting GLOW lunchtime/twilight drop in clinics to support staff who want to move forward with [...]
Did the lights stay on? ICT/GLOW and sustainability
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 17, 2008
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…is going to be the working title of our longitudinal study tracking a secondary school Biology year group over their complete standard grade course, with one of the classes using GLOW to deliver regular embedded ICT content. This is a continuation of this year’s research and should address, amongst other things, the issue of sustainability of [...]
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 [...]
GLOW gets its own page
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 27, 2008
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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 [...]
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