Posts Tagged ‘AiFL’
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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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 [...]
Reflections on a busy year
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 28, 2008
- In: AiFL | Finland | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | Uncategorized | VLE
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It’s certainly been an eventful year for me. Looking forward to a beach in Turkey next week, I got a big dose of the reflection city blues and have been thinking all day about how best to sum up 2007-8 in a single post. I suppose I started this academic year back last August [...]
Evolution vs Revolution or Gradualism ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 18, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | teaching and learning
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Here is an extract from a speech given by Dylan Wiliam (“Inside the black box”) a couple of years ago. He was talking about getting teachers to change their classroom pedagogy with regard to formative assessment. He calls it gradualism “Asking teachers to make wholesale changes in their practice is a little like asking a [...]
Leading schools out of innovation fatigue
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 23, 2008
- In: Leadership
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Listen to staffroom chat or read the pages and discussion boards of TES and you appear to get, at face value anyway, a sense of staff feeling overloaded with one so-called initiative after another coming down from on high. Be it GLOW, AiFL, or ACfE, the sense of despair can be at times very real. Now having [...]
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