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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Inter professional dialogue as CPD
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 14, 2011
It sometimes strikes me, as I speak and network with other education professionals that we are rather insular in our approaches. Of course, many folk I’ve worked with went from school, to university, and straight into teaching as their chosen career, and have been teachers and educationalists ever since. However, certainly over the past few [...]
You’ve got the looks, we’ve got(or are supposed to have) the brains….lets save lots of money, or the wider purpose of education…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 7, 2011
Councils all over Scotland are rushing headlong into the newspaper headlines with their ever more outrageous and outlandish schemes to save money in education. And they are getting wilder and more extreme every day. Hot on the heels of South Lanarkshire threatening successful nursery establishments with closure, axing services to children with special needs, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Another year over….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 1, 2010
I’ve been very quiet on here and over on Twitter these last couple of weeks….nothing unusual for me as the last few months have been fairly up and down both personally and professionally, but recent events really have caused me to stop and take stock somewhat. Most recently, coming back from a trip to the [...]
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 [...]
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
- In: change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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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
- 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 [...]
New term – New job…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 29, 2009
- In: capacity-building | change | CPD | games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | networking | PLN | teaching and learning
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It’s been a really intense school year, what with the onward march of GLOW, a couple of research projects, ACfE, and the ‘BrainBoosters’ primary/secondary games-based learning project. Lots of interesting work so the feeling of moving slowly towards the summer break was really kicking in last week big time. Add to this another knee operation, [...]
Education 2020 and Islay High School 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 16, 2009
Arriving at Islay High School early last Friday morning in the glorious sunshine, it was easy to forget the 0400hrs start from Glasgow. Some great company and conversation in the car with David Noble, Maureen Park and driven by Katie Barrowman and so the journey up to Kennacraig passed by through some amazing scenery in [...]
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