Posts Tagged ‘Assessment’
Islay first, and the Cedars follows…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 21, 2011
- In: change | future of education | ICT
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Well done to the Cedars School of Excellence, a private school in Greenock for equipping all pupils with iPads and having most lessons taught using them. The school’s website proudly boasts that it is the first school in the world to have a 1:1 pupil/iPad ratio. At a cost of £45K, no small change here [...]
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 [...]
We live in interesting times…TESS article – January 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 24, 2009
- In: AiFL | change | Finland | Leadership | teaching and learning
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Here is the unedited version of the TESS article from Friday January 23rd ’09 ( http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6007643) We live in interesting times. The pace of change is faster than ever. We’ve moved from a 20th century geared towards mass-production to satisfy consumerism into a 21st century in which innovation and creativity will be the watch-words. And [...]
The greatest barrier to learning is…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 23, 2008
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….the talking teacher. I’ve heard this before, but it was brought sharply back into focus for me recently by some of my S4 students. They were working in small groups, having been told they were going to face the dreaded end-of topic test (I really hate these !) I couldn’t bring myself to let them sit [...]
Blended learning – and joined up attitudes.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 8, 2008
- In: Finland | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Literacy | Uncategorized
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I had a great day today, you know the sort of day I mean. One where all the thoughts and debates you’ve had about the way you’d like to work are vindicated by seeing someone else actually putting this into practice. I visited an upper secondary school in Sipoo, a town to the west of [...]
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